angelophile | Hundreds attend mass pillow fight

(I don't think everyone read irish_star's journal, so they may have missed out on this. But irish_star was there, smacking everyone with a pillow on behalf of the rest of us I'm sure.)

"Roughly 1,000 people drawn by internet postings and word-of-mouth converged near San Francisco's Ferry Building on Tuesday night for a half-hour pillow fight.

The underground event erupted at 6 p.m. in the center of Justin Herman Plaza with a mass rush of shrieking, laughing combatants - many of whom arrived with pillows concealed in shopping bags, backpacks and the like.

Within minutes, pillows were arcing, feathers were flying, and by the time the Ferry Building's clock tower clanged the half-hour, the plaza and hundreds of people were covered in white down that gave the scene a wintry lustre.

"I haven't giggled so hard for a really long time,'' said San Francisco resident Amy Davis, who lasted for most of the battle, but pulled out toward the end (heh heh.) when she had her fill of breathing feathers.

Amacker Bullwinkle, a Palo Alto artist with purple streaks in her hair who claimed affiliation with a mysterious group called the Pillow Fight Club came with a camera and because of a knee injury mostly stayed on the edge with about a third of the crowd who watched as hundreds of others beat the stuffing out of each other.

"No injuries, no cops and lots of smiles,'' Bullwinkle said after it was all over.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/14/BAGIAH8L5D5.DTL