No, there's no punchline:

... But by 10 a.m., dozens of police had surrounded the bank and were waiting for equipment to cut through the chains and the bicycle lock looped through the door and around one protester's neck. ...

The story also raises that perennial question: Is Copley Square part of downtown?

I was on Boylston Street in Copley Square around noon when a couple of motorcycle cops came through, lights flashing. Then these three runners (you can't tell from the photo, but the guy is holding a lit torch). Then several vehicles with monks and other people calling for human rights in Tibet. And then the regular flow of traffic.

Third Decade was probably picking feathers out of his camera after taking that photo at today's pillow fight in Copley Square.

Teddy Kokoros was there, too. Maria Varmazis took photos as well:

... Many people saw me talking to one of the Banditos and asked me what political cause this rally was for. What's sad is that nobody seemed convinced when I told them this was just for fun. ...

Joe Driscoll managed to get just one shot:

It seemed like a nice day for walk. Perhaps over to Copley to visit the Library. The last thing I remember is a crazed individual and a Red Sox logo. Then the world went black.

PillowVision:

Earlier:
Pillow fight on the Common.

Fabulously Out There is walking to work at the Pru this morning when she starts seeing weird people:

... Next, two men come toward dressed in bedsheets covered in fake blood.

At which point I an wondering....are they crusaders? It is Good Friday and we all know what the Catholics did back in the day. These two might be a bit much into it.

Then, suddenly, Wonder-freaking-Woman, just with different colors appears.

At this point I am doubting my sanity.

There were a few pirate as well....and....as I enter my office building, I see a dude walking around in what resembles a popcorn box (home made, think Halloween) that said "DUH" on it. ...

Hmm, sounds like a job for Anime Boston, which opens today at, tah dah, the Hynes.

March 22 at 2 p.m.

Earlier pillow fights:
Boston Common.
Davis Square.

Scooterdude, the guy you see floating around Copley Square on a scooter powered by a windblown plastic sail, has a blog. And he does more than just scoot.

One of the statues on the Dartmouth Street side of the BPL main branch went with some ermine blankets to keep warm today. Inside, in the courtyard, Bacchante shared her fuzzy hat with the infant Faun:

More snow photos:
Leif Ericson in the snow.
Reading in the snow.
Frog Pond in the snow.
Fenway in the snow.
Back Bay in the snow.
Allston in the snow.
B trolley in the snow.
Fun with writing in the snow.

I'm probably just imagining it, but whoever put this guy up at the BPL entrance to Copley station sure seems to be pining for the days of Donna Summer.

It was just a simple photograph, background on the cell phone of a man found dead in the men's room at a Copley Square mall. But even for a paramedic used to death, it changed everything.

Alyssa Boehm adds film crews to the list of things she has to navigate around as she walks to her job near Copley Square (right up there with tourists, herds of child-care givers pushing double-wide strollers and the guy who feeds the ducks):

... A few of my friends live in LA and remind me that they have to deal with film shoots all the time. I pointed out they have better weather, better tacos and my personal favorite, palm trees. ...