Lest Twitter and Facebook take themselves too seriously for drawing the masses to Tahrir Square in Egypt for a revolution, the social networks were also partly responsible for another kind of spirited gathering at Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown San Jose on Sunday: a pillow fight.
That's right, a good old-fashioned pillow fight with adults acting like children and feathers flying.
At precisely noon, nearly 100 people following Twitter feeds and Facebook postings joined a "flashmob" of silliness.
In tutus, gorilla suits and pajamas, they came by car, bike and train, some with pillows strapped to their backs. They lined up on opposing sidewalks, then with the blow of a whistle, charged one another. They met in the middle in a fluffy frenzy.
"A panda just hit me!" one pillow-wielding man called out as the crowd of revelers, hemmed in by park benches, smacked each other from behind, above and beside. There were no tears, no arrests and barely an injury. In fact, several considered it therapeutic.
"I have a hangover from last night, so I figured my head was already hurting," said Katy Medeiros, 47, of Mountain View, who was pulling feathers out of her hair and eyelashes just four minutes after her first thwomp from a pillow. "It's controlled lunacy, isn't it?"
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