38th re-rooters day ceremony–VIRAL WARMING JANUARY 7, 2021 Provincetown harbor
CAPE COD TIMES FRONT PAGE JAN 8,2021
Re-Rooters Day carries extra significance following year colored by COVID-19
by Gwenn Friss
Re-Rooters Day carries extra significance following year colored by COVID-19
by Gwenn Friss
At the end of a beautiful Thursday afternoon in January, the weather about 40 degrees with a northwest breeze coming off the harbor, Jay Critchley, dressed in a construction helmet topped with a yellow light and an eagle perched on top, asked a series of questions to three dozen or so Cape Codders gathered at the beach at Provincetown Harbor.
Jay Critchley, CEO of the Re-Rooters Day Society, lights the treeboat on fire and sets it free. Photo: Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times
"Have you 'Karened' Operation Warped Speed," he asked, referring to a viral video of a woman refusing to wear a mask in a store.
"Are you revenge-traveling to Hyannis?"
"Are you confusing national security with natural security?"
Critchley, a local artist, led residents Thursday in the 38th annual Re-Rooters Day ceremony across the street from the Harbor Hotel to bid farewell to 2020.
"We are here to storm the beach, carry Provincetown's flag of freedom and hope and purge the recklessness of not only 2020, but the last four years...." Critchley said.
The annual ceremony started after Critchley visited the post-holiday dump decades ago and found piles of Christmas tree corpses and other holiday remnants. The first year, he tried unsuccessfully to replant the trees.
Since then, Jan. 7 has been marked by loading one of the trees onto a boat Critchley himself builds. The boat is then pushed out into the harbor to burn, much like what was done at Viking funerals.
See Photo Gallery from Re-Rooters 38th Annual Celebration
"As we gather in community on the shores of the ancient stolen lands of the Wampanoag Nation, we pause to listen to the sounds of breath and silence," he said. Critchley welcomed people Thursday with a sign that read "Viral Warming" spelled backward. The phrase served as the theme of this year's ceremony, along with “The Ten Commandments of Capitalist Sea Ice Revenge.”
As it does each year, the ceremony used holiday conventions — including Christmas carols — to call out what capitalism was offering in the face of what is needed to address climate change.
The crowd watched this year's wooden boat, adorned with a tree, burn on the horizon. The boat was heavily laden this year, as people loaded big chunks of their 2020-battered psyches onto the vessel. One participant opted to burn a calendar of the full year.
“People come to be renewed, to be released and to move forward, and we need this more than ever this year,” Critchley said in a telephone interview on the eve of this year's ceremony for the International Re-Rooters Society.
With 2020 being a year defined by unemployment, food insecurity, political divisiveness, pandemic deaths and the pall of isolation, even for those who didn’t fall ill to COVID-19, many people were ready to just chuck the whole year and start fresh.
"Are you revenge-traveling to Hyannis?"
"Are you confusing national security with natural security?"
Critchley, a local artist, led residents Thursday in the 38th annual Re-Rooters Day ceremony across the street from the Harbor Hotel to bid farewell to 2020.
"We are here to storm the beach, carry Provincetown's flag of freedom and hope and purge the recklessness of not only 2020, but the last four years...." Critchley said.
The annual ceremony started after Critchley visited the post-holiday dump decades ago and found piles of Christmas tree corpses and other holiday remnants. The first year, he tried unsuccessfully to replant the trees.
Since then, Jan. 7 has been marked by loading one of the trees onto a boat Critchley himself builds. The boat is then pushed out into the harbor to burn, much like what was done at Viking funerals.
See Photo Gallery from Re-Rooters 38th Annual Celebration
"As we gather in community on the shores of the ancient stolen lands of the Wampanoag Nation, we pause to listen to the sounds of breath and silence," he said. Critchley welcomed people Thursday with a sign that read "Viral Warming" spelled backward. The phrase served as the theme of this year's ceremony, along with “The Ten Commandments of Capitalist Sea Ice Revenge.”
As it does each year, the ceremony used holiday conventions — including Christmas carols — to call out what capitalism was offering in the face of what is needed to address climate change.
The crowd watched this year's wooden boat, adorned with a tree, burn on the horizon. The boat was heavily laden this year, as people loaded big chunks of their 2020-battered psyches onto the vessel. One participant opted to burn a calendar of the full year.
“People come to be renewed, to be released and to move forward, and we need this more than ever this year,” Critchley said in a telephone interview on the eve of this year's ceremony for the International Re-Rooters Society.
With 2020 being a year defined by unemployment, food insecurity, political divisiveness, pandemic deaths and the pall of isolation, even for those who didn’t fall ill to COVID-19, many people were ready to just chuck the whole year and start fresh.
Artist Jay Critchley welcomes the group that gathered Thursday. Photo:Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times
Excepts from the text of the program:
38 th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony – 1-7-21- Provincetown Harbor
Viral Warming
lariV gnimraW
The Lord appeared in the form of a burning bush and gave them…
The Ten Commandments of Sea Ice Revenge Capitalism
1. Pandemic apartheid is the Lord Thy God and thou shalt not carbon capture predatory starving equity analysts migrating extrajudicial gift-boxed fever dreams
(Repeat after each: lariV gnimraW)
2. Thou shalt not audio-trigger fracked Afrofuturists permafrosting zoonotic deep state diseased surveillance illuminati
3. Thou shalt not decolonize un-gendered firenados cold chaining swabbed asset managers excited delirium
4. Thou shalt not keep holy prosumer fabulist post-evangelical climate gentrified meritocracy colonizing Karened hedonic treadmills
5.Honor thy father and thy mother: Stand Back & Stand By
6. Thou shalt not de-platform efficacious augmented reality wildlife acidifying protectionist biomic spillover water futures.
7. Thou shalt not commit false-flagged indigenous Defend Foward child sex ring militias hypercommodifiing cyborg botonized fossil fuels
8. Thou shalt not commit seismic weaponized climate refugee devotees conceding fraudulent robotic corporate-cocktrailed white hooded time faminists
9. Thou shalt not block chain threat multiplied attribution science drilling great again coal-dusted sea ice revenge capitalism
10. Thou shalt not covet Cool Aided monopolized extinction food banks extracting fire-armed race realists power downing dark virality
Let it be known that the devils and sinners who deceive us shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beasts and false profits are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. A(wo)men
Twelve Days of Stockpiling
(Twelve Days of Christmas)
1. And pandemic poverty
2. Firenadoes
3. Corporate cocktails
4. Honor killings
5. +++Mood disorders
6. Race realists
7. Brightened planets
8. Deep State pipelines
9. Murder hornets
10. Cybersquatters
11. Water futures
12. Hedonic treadmills
Questions for the fabulists experiencing time famine:
lariV gnimraW
We are here to storm the beach, carry Provincetown’s flag of freedom and hope and purge the recklessness of not only 2020, but the last four years, up until yesterday’s Three Kings, The Epiphany, the 12 Days of Stockpiling, the end of four years of stockpiling, looting, disease and racism when the Murder Hornets stormed the debilitated body of Congress.
As we gather in community on the shores of the ancient stolen lands of the Wampanoag Nation, we pause to listen to the sounds of breath and silence.
lariV gnimraW
- Did you receive a gift-boxed present of excited delirium?
- Are you confusing National Security with Natural Security?
- Are we living in a swabbed democracy?
- Are your fever dreams replacing sex?
- Are you suffering from seasonal affective disorder for all four seasons?
- Are you revenge traveling to Hyannis?
- Have you Karened Operation Warp Speed?
Do you know where the word COVID comes from? You have to spell it backwards –DIVOC. According to the Deep State, it means: Devil in Viral Outfit Celebrating
38 th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony – 1-7-21- Provincetown Harbor
Viral Warming
lariV gnimraW
The Lord appeared in the form of a burning bush and gave them…
The Ten Commandments of Sea Ice Revenge Capitalism
1. Pandemic apartheid is the Lord Thy God and thou shalt not carbon capture predatory starving equity analysts migrating extrajudicial gift-boxed fever dreams
(Repeat after each: lariV gnimraW)
2. Thou shalt not audio-trigger fracked Afrofuturists permafrosting zoonotic deep state diseased surveillance illuminati
3. Thou shalt not decolonize un-gendered firenados cold chaining swabbed asset managers excited delirium
4. Thou shalt not keep holy prosumer fabulist post-evangelical climate gentrified meritocracy colonizing Karened hedonic treadmills
5.Honor thy father and thy mother: Stand Back & Stand By
6. Thou shalt not de-platform efficacious augmented reality wildlife acidifying protectionist biomic spillover water futures.
7. Thou shalt not commit false-flagged indigenous Defend Foward child sex ring militias hypercommodifiing cyborg botonized fossil fuels
8. Thou shalt not commit seismic weaponized climate refugee devotees conceding fraudulent robotic corporate-cocktrailed white hooded time faminists
9. Thou shalt not block chain threat multiplied attribution science drilling great again coal-dusted sea ice revenge capitalism
10. Thou shalt not covet Cool Aided monopolized extinction food banks extracting fire-armed race realists power downing dark virality
Let it be known that the devils and sinners who deceive us shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beasts and false profits are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. A(wo)men
Twelve Days of Stockpiling
(Twelve Days of Christmas)
1. And pandemic poverty
2. Firenadoes
3. Corporate cocktails
4. Honor killings
5. +++Mood disorders
6. Race realists
7. Brightened planets
8. Deep State pipelines
9. Murder hornets
10. Cybersquatters
11. Water futures
12. Hedonic treadmills
Questions for the fabulists experiencing time famine:
lariV gnimraW
We are here to storm the beach, carry Provincetown’s flag of freedom and hope and purge the recklessness of not only 2020, but the last four years, up until yesterday’s Three Kings, The Epiphany, the 12 Days of Stockpiling, the end of four years of stockpiling, looting, disease and racism when the Murder Hornets stormed the debilitated body of Congress.
As we gather in community on the shores of the ancient stolen lands of the Wampanoag Nation, we pause to listen to the sounds of breath and silence.
lariV gnimraW
- Did you receive a gift-boxed present of excited delirium?
- Are you confusing National Security with Natural Security?
- Are we living in a swabbed democracy?
- Are your fever dreams replacing sex?
- Are you suffering from seasonal affective disorder for all four seasons?
- Are you revenge traveling to Hyannis?
- Have you Karened Operation Warp Speed?
Do you know where the word COVID comes from? You have to spell it backwards –DIVOC. According to the Deep State, it means: Devil in Viral Outfit Celebrating