When the City Burghers Were Building...

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the Torre del Mangia 650 years ago, do you think they could have pictured a bunch of Italian hippies sitting in front of it in the piazza, smoking hash and playing "Psycho Killer" on guitar and drum? Well, that's what was happening there last night.

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  1. PH8:48 AM

    Not that you participated, or anything...

    I like the angle on the picture, BTW. Did you take that yourself?

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  2. gcallah11:15 AM

    No, that one is posted on Wikipedia.

    I participated by doing that funny David Byrne staggering dance.

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  3. Anonymous11:35 AM

    If you're going to be doing any David Byrne dances, I recommend you give some of these a try...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU

    Sure, you might get arrested or thrown in the loony bin, but it would be awesome!

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