Weekend hindsight

We found these sunglasses on Hutchinson Field on Sunday. Hutchinson Field is the grassy area of Grant Park where the AT&T stage was erected for Lollapalooza. For me, these sunglasses represent a lot (insert your own caption here). The mayhem of Rage Against the Machine's show, perhaps. The insanity of a three-day summer festival with more than 225,000 people and eight stages of music.

It's easy to imagine how someone could have lost their glasses this weekend and subsequently have them trampled. Though I like to think that someone, agitated by Zack de la Rocha's anti-capitalist rants, threw down these glasses during Rage's set and did away with Prada and materialism forever. Probably not the case.

One final observation:

Before the Rage show, somewhere deep in the throng, we saw a guy drinking out of a Coppertone bottle. Initial reaction: disgust. Upon further consideration, I wonder if this was one of those branded containers you can buy to hold illicit materials--like the Coke can that is actually filled with beer or the bottle of shaving cream with the marijuana compartment. Later, after the show, we saw one mosh survivor pick up a half-empty bottle of water that was lying on the ground. He studied it for a moment before proceeding to gulp it down. So maybe the Coppertone guy really was chugging lotion-flavored liquids after all, who knows.