So this weekend is the big animal rights event at the Algonquin. I guess we'll be talking about non-violent protests amidst the ghosts of the likes of Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. Groovy. It turns out that they have enough staffers from Friends of Animals going so I'm not going to have to help out. I can just attend free of charge. That's really cool of them. I don't know how much it normally costs but I know that it's not cheap. They're just operating under the assumption that I'll be back to help them later which, of course, is true.