monsterjoe

OK, ok, ok, I confess...

I did the macarena, but before you disown me remember that it was a wedding, I was the best man, and I was pretty loaded. Hey, you want people to dance at your wedding don't you?

I also did the Electric Slide, but that's just fucking cool.

Teusday I lit off on my own and went to NYC. I took the Long Island railroad into Penn Station. That place is like LAX underground. It was pooring down rain outside, but thankfully there were plenty of people in Times Square selling umbrellas for $5 a piece. I just wondered around mostly. I thought I might be able to get a ticket to Wicked. Sheesh, not just no....They sold out for the next month and a half. Tickets to Little Shop of Horrors were half price for that day so I grabbed one of those and then wondered around some more.

There were a lot of people running around in the rain, and it struck me as an opportunity for randum kindness. At first I tried giving my own umbrella away to a couple of teenage girls. I was walking past them and they were huddled together with their hoods pulled up. I said "here, take this" and offered my umbrella. They kind of shrinked back and said "no, we're alright." I said, "no, take it. Here go on and take it." They walked on by.

I thought that it might be the beard (other than that I don't look like a bum do I?), and I thought that perhaps I came on too strong. So, I thought I'd try to look more legit. I went back to one of the street venders and bought two more umbrellas and looked around for wet people.

The first guy I tried to give one away to was an older guy with his family. He had a wife and two sons and no umbrella, so I watched him come up the street and just knew that they'd take at least one. Nope. They didn't even acknowlege me when I spoke to them. I said "hey, take one of these. I have extra." The whole family looked straight ahead and acted like they didn't here me. Just blank looks. Not even a "no thank you."

At this point I started to get bummed out. I was thinking "I can't give away umbrellas in the middle of a storm. How sad is that?" Why are people so suspicious and afraid? What about me is scaring people off?

I stopped and smoked a cigarette under some scafolding.

I saw a black man with his shirt pulled over his head. I said "hey brother take one of these." He looked at me for a sec, looked at the two umbrellas I had under my arm, nodded and accepted the gift. He mouthed a thank you and took off. I felt better.

A little bit later I see a dark haired girl in black spandex pants and a white and black striped shirt coming down the block with her sweat jacket hood pulled up. She had her eyebrow pierced. I was thinking "SG for shure." I offered her an umbrella. She said "I'm ok." I said "no, go on. I have an extra." She gave me a funny look. Like it was an odd thing to be doing, but she took it and went her way.

Well, after that I thought that maybe I could buy a whole bunch of umbrellas, stand on a corner, and try to give them away like that. Then I walked by a strip club and dicided to try that instead.

I left in time to see my show. I'm a big fan of the film, and I was looking forward to seeing how they worked the plant on stage. It was great. Um... lets just say that the film had the Disney ending and the play wasn't quite so affirming. Hehehe....the plant wins.

Take care folks.