Spontaneous Special Operations

Have you or anyone that you have loved been in a flash mob? For those of you that might have been witness to one (without realizing that the earth never shook,) a flash mob is the aggregation of people who share a lot in common- more than they would admit to- in a public space, and their momentary dispersal. But forgive those cutie hipsters who know not what they do, but do so looking cool. Now that the mob creator, Bill Wasik of Harper’s Magazine has come out from the curtain of his schadenfreude, and admitted his design and also, humbly, how his idea was superceded by others. Namely suits paid to track the number$ like Ford Motors. But now that the flash mob has gotten oh-so-mainstream, the idea has morphed into something equally pointless, albeit good, clean fun- pillow fight mobs.

The Pillow Fight Club has been a spectacle of feathers and mayhem around the world in Madrid, Tel Aviv, Toronto and most recently, in Portland. It is a benign club with rules for fair play. Simply show up at the EXACT time and PLACE and be inconspicuous as possible—-with your pillow.