Its late, Im tired, and I have to wake up early tomorrow for another day at Ye Olde Sandwich Shoppe. But before I head to bed, I thought Id share this bit of news from my home town, Ashland. Its about a group of protesters who decided to stage a nude game of croquet outside of the City Council to protest a new law outlawing public nudity in the park. Its a rather nostalgic reminder that, although Im a few hundred miles from my old stomping grounds, Im really not that far away at all. We can protest with the best of em in A-Town.

The protest was headed by one Ryan Navickas, whos something akin to Ashlands version of Zach Vishanoff. My brother went to school with the guy, and according to him as reliable a source as Ive ever had Navickas lives in a self-constructed tree house with his girlfriend, a recent transplant from New Hampshire. He also owns an organic farm — a farm that is so organic that Navickas tills and hoes the earth with his bare hands. He actually squats in the earth and digs at it with his finger tips. Perhaps there is a connection between his living in a tree house that he constructed from spare lumber and his actions as a farmer.

Heres my favorite quote from the story: He urged them –quoteNOT to criminalize the human body.

I just find it funny that the writer actually wrote the word “quote” before a perfectly delineated quote. The quote is pretty funny, too.

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