People have been trying to get me to work harder for years, Tony, but I still only do what I want, when I want. Thanks for trying, though.

I was going to go down to the Russian Embassy to protest myself, because I'd read that there would be rallies at Russian Embassies all over the world in the hour before the verdict was handed down. Not here, though. It would have been at 6am, and, apparently, the people that do the protesting here do not get up early.

I did not have one of those bright colored balaclavas, and I found out later that they are actually made by cutting up stretch pants. I think that they are the best part of the protest, and I particularly like the way that they look on statues.

Pyotr Verzilov said that it was very difficult for Nadezhda Tolokonnikova to be away from their child, and that she believed before they did their "performance" that they would be arrested and sentenced to prison. I think that speaks to intent.

I have sympathy for them for another reason, and that is that in the dim past, I too was in an anarchist rock band that was arrested for protesting an abuse of power. Granted, we did not desecrate a religious shrine (we sang sacrilegious and offensive songs, though), but there were police, and an actual trial, where we were defended by a famous civil rights attorney.

I use "we" advisedly. I was running late the day of our "protest" and by the time I got there, the band had already been arrested. I was allowed to sit at the defendent's table in court, though, and I got to make victory signs when the charges were dismissed.