SFist: UPDATE: Paul David Addis' Grace Cathedral Arson Attempt Snuffed Out

wsanders

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:20:50 -0800

If you're a lawyer and you can't drum up enough business to afford $400 a year bar dues maybe you should think about adopting another profession. However, please don't consider changing careers to insane criminal anarchist-slash-performance artist. If there is any profession more overrepresented in SF than lawyers, it's insane criminal anarchist-slash-performance artists. Just move to Austin already.

SFistJim

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:36:34 -0800

Used to be a lawyer, but he stopped paying his bar dues. A little pricey compared to the U.S. average. 400 bones a year.

Berkeleyite

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:14:58 -0800

Didn't he used to be a lawyer?

mariconsoy

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:19:12 -0800

Thanks Sangfroid826 for the Haloween shock video. It's nice to know there are bona fide maniacs like him who could be our next-door neighbors. My diagnosis: One too many doses of a really bad batch, or he stopped his daily doses of the Walgreens kind.

katerose26

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:12:36 -0800

sangfroid826

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:35:45 -0800

Here's some interesting video of Paul Addis. Whatever, dude.

wsanders

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:08:01 -0800

Oooh, $488,000 bail. They're not fooling around this time. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/29/BAGJT2QQB.DTL&tsp=1 Is there going to be a benefit on Valencia Street somewhere? After all, "terrorism" is just another man's "performance art": http://www.osborne-conant.org/documentation_stockhausen.htm

ChinaNob

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:01:34 -0800

So, a guy who sounds like he was taking steps in the direction of mental derangment/criminality got his first taste of burning something down at Burning Man and found, much like a serial killers first kill, that he....liked it. Sounds like once wasn't enough, and he needed to continue his need to burn, burn, burn.

fizzandpop

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:00:19 -0800

Arson isn't exactly at the top of the "comedy crime capers" list this week.

wsanders

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:36:25 -0800

Was he in Southern California last week?

Brock Keeling

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:19:52 -0800

Also, what with it's stone-y facade, the cathedral looks impossible to burn down -- especially with a few sparklers and snakes, or whatever he had in his sack.

sangfroid826

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:16:16 -0800

Hey Addis . . . did it look at you? Did the fire look at you? Did you want to watch the firemen dance with the animal? Like you Addis, I'm worried that some aspects of our public sphere have lost their "spontaneity". The authorities want to send you you to a plain old unexpressive cell. Boring! And therapy? Yawn. Let's get creative! How about pink tar & green feathers? Then we'll lock you a stockade outside the corner of, oh say, Turk & Leavenworth for no less than 30 days and nights. Cool! People can walk by and exercise their "religious rights" on various parts of your physique! I'm afraid the best you can hope for is that they sign your leg like a cast. Does that work for you? No? Well who the fuck cares what you think. It'll look cool. See? Our worlds aren't that far apart after all, are they?

mcgordonliddy

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:10:06 -0800

what an enormous douchebag.

mariconsoy

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:42:34 -0800

He's obviously completely frigging insane and should be in a flame-retardant padded-cell. Brock- note use of hypens.I wanted to brighten up your Monday.

BeejW

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:21:39 -0800

I'll second that...

Brock Keeling

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:59:54 -0800

Oh my %@$#^^@$%^$%@#^ God!

BeejW

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:55:18 -0800

It seems the guy they've arrested is none other than Paul David Addis, the guy who pre-torched the Burning Man this year. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/29/BAGJT2QQB.DTL&tsp=1