[Waye Mason]

a - public protest is a part of democracy

b - everyone in NYC this summer seemed to have tattoos. Our excellent server at Lupa, a middle high end Mario Batali restaurant, had face and arm tats. I think it is increasingly provincial to judge people based on that kind of appearance/body mod.

c - the concert was great. Despite the time change, the venue change, there were about 1000 people inside and 500 outside who could not get in. Stars played 3 songs acoustic in the parking lot for those outside. I suspect if it had gone ahead at the original time and in grand parade we would have had 2500-3000 people, minimum.

It was the most successful HPX ever, the festival is a global model for how to run a new music festival, I suspect we cracked 21K attendance this year, despite the rain on Thursday.