About a thousand years ago -- back when I was still young -- a bunch of us vowed to drag this idiotic green flag to a bunch of shows:
http://copelandia.smugmug.com/photos/22 ... XF5-XL.jpg (Hard to believe it ever looked so fresh and clean, ain't it?)
As part of this ingenious (and perhaps ingenuous) plot, I said (as Lynne recently remembered somewhere) that,
[quote]Eventually – assuming it survives – I’ll find a way to get it to The Stewart as the nastiest, rattiest, lovingest, most battle-scarred keepsake that Fiona has ever banned from entering the Copeland household.[/quote]
Fourteen months later, we'd done just about everything we had set out to do:
* Show support for Stewart? Check.
* Fly the flag at as many Police gigs as possible? Check.
* Collect signatures along the way? Check.
* Turn a green cloth into a nasty, ratty, loving, battle-scarred keepsake worthy of banishment from the Copeland household? Check.
With only a few shows left to go and flag survival seeming (hopefully) imminent, one last challenge loomed large: how to get the daft thing to Stewart.
For fourteen months, just about everyone has had some sort of opinion on the subject. Conroy alone must have come up with a good dozen of the most creative and ludicrous of solutions. But in the end, the decision needed to come from Stewart: the gift is his, as is the need for privacy and security.
So as one of my last acts as Flagmistress, I had the dubious honor of bugging the crap out of Team Copeland over a ratty green flag . . .
Dramatic highlights & a unique musical cosmos. Guaranteed.