we had planned to do a burning bush thing for new year's, but that didn't quite work out...... instead, we watched 'pan's labyrinth' which happened to finish just before midnight..... it was decided that yet another coordinated musical and pyrotechnic extravaganza from the space needle was not how we wanted to bring in '08, so instead we watched the final scene from 'v for vendetta', which without stepping into the spoiler zone for anyone who hasn't seen it (and you should) it just seemed more appropriate........ as it turned out....the news footage the next day of a dark space needle with music blaring in the background and failed, undetonated fireworks still strapped to the needle's roof was both comedy and the obvious lesser choice to have made..... as it turned out, we were invited to a xmas tree burning the next weekend and i cobbled together two hand held effigies of bush and cheney out of scraps leftover from my wreath making materials........ we arrived after the pile o' trees had been ignited, and the crowd appreciated the cheney bush wickerman sentiment...... cheney burned up almost immediately (impeach cheney first!), and while bush malingered, i was able to snap a few pics.... on the day i sent these cards out i heard that among the protests bush encountered on his middle east "peace" trip(or was sheltered from as the case may be) there were a number of effigies burned in his stead....... act local- think global........ the attached pics have been converted to jpeg from windows publisher and can be printed as postcards- i use double sided paper....the quote on the back was lifted from william gibson's latest novel - 'spook country'- and seemed a timely and appropriate addition.........