Zuccotti Park or NOLA Bookfair

Hippies with crazy bikes, colorful hair, and mangy dogs milling about in the streets?

Check



Ratty homemade signage?

Check



Street musicians?

Check


General air of hipstery pseudo-intellectual everybody-look-at-how-literate-I-am-ism?

You betcha.

Oh wait. Here's what's different. I've been to quite a few NOLA Bookfairs and didn't notice anyone being beaten by police.

Otherwise, they're basically the same event. The only conclusion I can draw from this is Michael Bloomberg's NYPD are actually bigger dicks than NOPD's 5th District goons.