Little Annie Longrie Opts for the Orphan Defense

Well, it's July 17th and the key grip did it again. Last week s/he was just playing, putting a sign in front of H. Alan, who collects fountain pens, reading 'Interium city attorney'. This week, s/he sort of accidently dropped the scripts for the next three weeks, getting them all jumbled up. But it was a good crowd, so they went along.

We started out with a scene from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Rossbach does just what you would expect and brings an expert to a stupid fight, thinking that a lawyer from the MN State Department of Administration specializing in data privacy issues would be helpful in a discussion centered on data privacy issues. But nooooo, H. Alan declares, "experts? we don't need no stinkin' experts! Why my partner and I practically wrote that data privacy law." What a guy, he sure has a Knaak. No wonder they gave him a speaking part so soon.

But then it started to go south. The crowd was pretty restless, so Little Annie Brutus decides its time to defend Greg like he was a village in VietNam. [sorta quotes from memory] "you all think he is my friend. Well maybe he is my friend. But just cuz he's my friend doesn't mean he wouldn't sue us for defamation in a New York minute if we actually talked about what was in this report, and the 13 people that voted for me sure don't want their hard earned money spent on law suits when there is more important city business to not do." [end sorta quotes]

The crowd got a good laugh from that, which flustered everybody. Little Annie Brutus Becqui♥ was supposed to motion to adjourn with her adaptation of Tomorrow, but Li'l Erik got to beating up on the supposed expert, so ? Little Annie had to go with the orphan defense: "last week we shot our lawyers so now we have no competent counsel." 'H' was a little stunned, just having done his I'm an expert on data privacy and municipal law lines letter perfect, but he played along, knowing where his fountain pen is going to get inked.

Now the crowd got really nasty. They'd paid for a 4 hour show and the curtain was coming down, so Little Annie Brutus ? Aretha did two verses and a chorus of "R E S P E C T" the Mayor of Nottingham, which shut them up just long enough for the clowncil to vote 3/2 on the splendid idea of doing nothing.

They didn't even validate parking.