Mission Impossible – Mudflats Goes to the Atwood Building!
As you may recall, a special craft project distinguished the Anchorage Mudstock meetup from all the others. Attendees, using yellow duct tape, cut out little yellow mudboots, and affixed them to shiny holiday ornaments. But these ornaments were not designed for any ordinary Christmas tree. Their destiny was greater.
(Insert Mission Impossible music here…..)
“mwThatOne, organizer of the Anchorage Mudstock, and party planner extraordinaire; your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take four Mudflats ornaments downtown, and hang them in conspicuous places near key government offices without being captured or identified….. Should you or any of your mudforce be caught or killed, the mudpuppies will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good Luck, mwThatOne.”
mwThatOne dons here inconspicuous parka, stuffs the ornaments in her bag, and heads out into the cold. She knows what she must do. She is “wired for the mission” one might say… She parks half a block away, and heads toward her target, the Atwood Building, wherein resides the Anchorage offices of Sarah Palin and her staff. Rumor has it she has a Juneau office too, but we have yet to confirm that.
Mudflats ornament. Destination: Atwood Building
Our Mudflats operative approaches and enters the building. Her mission? To put a Mudflats ornament on the Atwood Christmas tree. She approaches the tree, heart beating fast, and…..foiled! A security guard is stationed right next to the tree. Time for Plan B.
She spies two large wreaths in the Atwood’s restaurant on the main floor. She sidles up to the first wreath, and with a quick glance around to make sure nobody was looking……success! After repeating the process with the second wreath, she leaves the building with both wreaths sporting handcrafted ornaments straight from Mudstock.
But her work is not yet done.
There are still two ornaments left. Now….to find a tree. A lovely spruce, right across the street was the next target. Success again, and no security guards this time.
And look what’s right down the block! A certain consignment store that has been in the news a bit lately. mwThatOne snaps a couple shots for posterity as she heads back to the car.
- Out of the Closet & Governor’s office
I have to confess I’ve been sitting on this story. This is not up to the minute breaking news, because I knew, alas, that once the story was told, those beautiful ornaments would not have long to live. So, I am happy to say that by the time you read these words, the ornaments have been hanging for the last three days undisturbed!
Mission Accomplished.
Very daring! I’m glad the ornaments lasted for three days.
Beautiful!
Mission with a Sense of Destiny and Humour!
Love it….
Nice
congradulations-mwThatOne, you have done the “mission impossible”
Now that would be very “mean spirited” if “someone” were to take them down, dont’cha think?????
What time of day is it there? Is it night all the time right now? Wow, I can’t imagine that! (No wonder the governor needs a tanning bed…SAD and all!)
She should have just asked if she could put an ornament on the tree. The guard may have just thought it was no big deal and not known the symbolism….
It’s not illegal to ask
@mwThatOne..
Awesome! And you had the “balls” to do it…(pun intended!)
Neither the cold, nor rain, nor snow will deter her sortie….
@jwa,
I think the point was to do it stealthly….asking would have changed the dynamics of the mission!
I hear the music of Mission Impossible playing in my head. I can see your furtive yet casual walk and movements as you adorn the wreaths and tree! Fantastic!
What would have been great tho is to wait and watch and see which minion would be sent out the remove these balls! Now that would be entertainment!
AKM just read about the new email gate going on in AK on WAPO. The forwarded rascist emails about PE Obama. Any insider information about what the punishment maybe for the state employees involved?
mwThatOne — Well done! Or should that be ‘Wellies done!.”?
Either way, good onya! My rain hat’s off to you!
When I read your first sentence — “As you may recall, a special craft project distinguished the Anchorage Mudstock meetup from all the others” — I thought you meant that you were one of those 5 women and 2 kids at “Sarah Palin’s church” and your craft project went awry!
Thank goodness just reading a little farther set me straight!
Love you’re web site,an Alaskan,,..
Well, done! Good thing the pics of the meeting were published before the story of the hanging.
But how much of an impact do 4 balls have? Let’s get some more out there.
Everywhere.
WOW! Way cool…good work.
Now, o/t…What is to be done about the racist e-mails about the Obamas, circulating on the Alaska state goventment email? The Huffington Post has a shot article about this on line.
No crystalwolf, it is not “night all of the time” here.
The sun does indeed still come up in Anchorage where we live. However it is often overcast and chilly.
Just the way “real” Alaskans like it.
By the way, kudos to the sneaky mudflatters.
You bunch of subversive internet junkies you.
Hmm….looking at “leftover” ornaments in need of a home. . . .scrambling through hubby’s work stuff for electrical tape….ah ha! Who says Mudflats ornaments only belong in Alaska???? Hello, Mel Martinez, Charlie Crist, and Jeb Bush – get your wellies – game on!
Twenty bucks if you go baclk to Out of the Closet and ask for a red pair of Jimmy Choos.
Just kidding.
And…um…could someone give *me* twenty dollars?
LOL AKM, what a fine write-up……all true, as usual!! as for asking to put a ball on the building’s indoor tree, it would’ve defeated the mission, yes, because……mostly, I know the security guards to be very
sober folk, and suspicious….. part of the job description, maybe; The
balls look ever so charming outside. Now, I would expand this craft project now to use not only gold balls but also too BLUE balls! put them
not only near government offices, but EVERYWHERE! Also to any potential mudpuppy friends…. Are you with me?
mwThatOne — very, very well done. A tip of the yellow hat to you! Now, THAT’S a Mission Accomplished.
AKM, I think Rachel Maddow must be reading Mudflats. Her story last night about the proposed salary raise for Palin and her co-conspirator sounded like she’d read your post on the topic. If so, it’s not for lack of recommendations from a number of your mudpups.
of course!…… administration personnel has nothing to do with Palin……..never. BUSTED!……now they’re going through all the emails. some people better be sweatin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/18/alaska-racist-emails-agai_n_152005.html
Bill McAllister, Palin’s spokesman (dipshit) . “This is, of course, a confidential personnel and disciplinary matter that has nothing to do with the governor’s office.”
You are all terrific! So is someone going by every day to see if they are still in their proper places? And if they make it through, I do hope you’ll try to retrieve them, or will they be an unasked for donation to the governor’s ornament collection?
How about other Anchorage vicinity mudpups joining me in this cause (thanks Sauerkraut) and whenever downtown, putting another MFB/MPB on the trees in front of the Atwood! ? Make up an half dozen and put up one every day. Deck the Street with Balls of Mudflats, fa la la la la…….
Wouldn’t it be great if someone could play –pin a tail on the donkey (sp) and take a pic of her wearing…the jewels….
mwThatOne
this just goes to proving miss palin is wrong again. Not all blogger just sit around in their parents basement wearing their pjs. Some loggers have dangerous jobs to do work sensitive missions and work very hard trying to progress their country into a better future to and also..therefore they do and also must work with a “servants heart’ because the pay here also is very low and you can’t be in it for the money. How ever we may decide to give every one a pay raise soon
job well none mwthatone…you will receive your new order soon..remember your must destroy all communications from us…you may want to hide them with sarah email ..no one will finds them there
Good job, mwThatOne! I’m proud to say that one of those might be the one I made!
(smiling) [must learn to pull a gif onto here!]
Just sayin’ (as they say) that I have had such a sense of JOY in my mission of a/ making these little messaged ornaments and b/hanging them !!! Maybe if there were some to appear in the UK/Ireland Rachel could pick it up…? Giving the Balls the Boot Campaign !! In the Name of all that is Harmonious…
thank you Mr. Dunn……..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/racist-emails-on-state-of_b_151971.html
mhrt oregon
Re: dangerous jobs to do work sensitive missions and work very hard trying to progress their country into a better future
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I await my next mission with a servant’s heart and no pay. I am in this for my children, you betcha, that their balls may not only be ornamental but worthy of yellow boots from Nieman Marcus!
I will soon get out of my pj’s and race down (on my dogsled, yeah) to the secured building to gaze at the wreaths and the trees. Will report back to this post and to AKM ! (I’m just so busy! )
Greytdog: do report back on YOUR mission also too….
@mwThatOne
Any suggestions as to where I should put some? I’m in Ireland.
Irish: Put ‘em wherever the Gaelic version of herself might be found…
@Mona,
I can’t really think of a Gaelic version of herself! She is pretty unique…:)
Sweet……..how about some little decals of the mudflats logo with the words “we’re watching”…………….when Larry Flynt ran that special edition of Hustler during the Monica hearings that exposed all the Republicans that had done the same and more and several resigned………me and a buddy had some bumper stickers made that had a USA flag and “God Bless Larry Flynt”……..we always gave a couple to people because everyone would ask for one when they saw one!!!
Mudflats, we love you. I mean carry you on our shoulders love.
I LOVE IT! LOL, and keep it up! Mission POSSible!
Irish…wherever people gather… on the right or on the left, I say create a bit of a stir…..
Have a ball……those boots are made for walkin’…..
hey, all…..look up Robin Williams stand up in the UK show on youtube :
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/robin-williams-stand-up-in-uk-about-2008-us-elections-/2104465556
OT if you haven’t seen it, there is a fun youtube about Robin Williams in UK about elections….find it!
Gee, wasn’t “Out of the Closet” sent a “cease and desist” letter about using someone else’s name for their store?
Great job mwThatOne! I’m loving it and all you mudpups. I just checked Amazon.com and yellow ductape is #1 in the duct tape list. Perhaps we could have it listed on the side board as a choice for Christmas presents. I also happened to notice they have duct tape wallets, which I just had to get for my Hubby. He is such a duct tape fan, and while I was at it I ordered the “Ductigami: The Art of the Tape” The possibilities are endless. I can see yellow boots showing up everywhere.
Wonderful./ Great idea.
Repeat as necessary. As the doctor ordered, except, just photos, no locations given.
Where’s Alaska’s Banksy?
heh-heh.
pdx mb – I wondered the same thing. Of course, we know that court orders mean absolutely NOTHING in AK these days. The Gov. set the example for the rest of her State when she got away with ignoring a supoena.
“out of the closet” should be required to complete the phrase (from Stonewall): Out of the closet and into the streets!!!!! No to state sponsored discrimination
I am loving it!
Great job, mwThatOne..
Well, decked an unused xmas ball with yellow boots and hung it on the tree but Herself took it down cuz she don’t want no political statements like that in the house.
oh buh humbug.
sauerkraut… put it on a tree outside the house (don’t tell, either). Am
pleased that you gave it a try!!