Tonight marked the 3rd Annual Pillow Fight/Primal Scream. Not that we needed to tell you that; anyone who wasn't getting a good night's rest before a final (ha!) or listening to very loud music probably just heard about 25 straight minutes of screaming emanating from South Lawn.

The be-pillowed masses started to gather at 11:50 PM or so, slowly migrating out of Butler and the dorms and congregating by the sundial. An official-sounding girl with a pillow (UPDATE: "The lovely" Nina Bell, founder of the pillow fight Correct UPDATE: Lindsey Kaley, this year's event organizer.) instructed the ranks to split in two, and half retreated to the steps of Butler, while half stayed put at the sundial.

As several commenters have kindly reminded us, the 3rd(?) Annual Finals Eve Pillow Fight will be taking place on South Lawn in front of Butler tonight at midnight (or 11:55, according to the Facebook event). Please bring you game face and a pillow.

Pictured at right: some of the carnage from last year's battle royale.

UPDATE, 11:45: The fun begins in just fifteen minutes, but Bwog just realized that our camera phone doesn't have a flash. If you're attending the pillow fight, send us your pictures, and we'll post them once we recover from our war wounds. 

UPDATE, 12:15: Shit is out of control. At 12:00, Bwog witnessed two tidal waves of sleep-deprived humanity crash against each other in a Braveheart-style battle royale. There was an audible "oomph" as bodies and pillows smashed into each other. The Primal Screaming has not ceased in the past 20 minutes--new waves of yelling are coming about every five minutes. Insane.

At the sound of midnight's Primal Scream, dozens of students broke out into a veritable Bacchic frenzy on South Lawn.

More photos after the jump...

The second-hopefully-annual Pillow Fight is tonight. Meet at the Sundial at midnight, BYOP. Let's make this into THIS.

Also, study break with copious desserts from Kitchenette in the EC 2nd floor lounge at 8:00 PM!

If you stayed uptown today, you missed the 2^nd annual New York City Pillow Fight --organized by the public art group newmindspace, it attracted over three hundred pillow-wielding New Yorkers to Union Square at 2:00 to wail on complete strangers. Many in the crowd wore colorful and attention-drawing outfits, including a banana suit and several incarnations of William Wallace. Also of note: some guy who somehow lost his shirt in the fray, another who somehow found a woman's shirt and underwear in the mayhem, and the ironic smiley-faced pillow I got hit with repeatedly. Bwog wants a repeat!

- Steven Thomas