They gathered just before sunset at the foot of the grass just inside Dolores Park. The one fauxtest sign, almost visible, read: "Brad Pitt's toilet paper is no better than mine."

About half those who arrived, did so without fauxtest signs. Fortunately, extra signs were available. The two here read, "Just be glad you're working 3 jobs," and, "Heat rises, Cotton breathes."

One young woman held up a sign that read, "Sun sets at 5:34 PM."

The event organizer was dressed for roller skating with the words, "I built it," emblazoned across his front. Overhead he held a sign that read, "We need the rain," below which was a negation symbol over a sun.

These two well dressed gentlemen carried twin signs that read, "Stinky people off MUNI."

A man in a cowboy outfit (who later claimed to have just returned from riding the out fence line) used a megaphone to try to drum up additional support from those seated around the park.

One of the more clever signs read, "Free malloc." Unless you were a C programmer you wouldn't understand. The malloc function returns allocated memory that, if not later freed, can result in a memory leak.

Any protest is not worth its salt unless it draws a police presence. Even a faux protest can take pride in the surveillance of a real police car.

The sun was completely down and the march was mere minutes away when this sign arrived. It read, "Got hates flags."