It was beautiful biking weather today, roller-bladers were scarce, and to top it off, so to speak, I saw a guy with a Kid ‘do, a bit wilted from basketball but a good ten inches tall in its full glory. Or maybe it was a Play ‘do, who can remember?
Anyone who bicycles in New York will eventually encounter a Mexican man, in his 50s or 60s, riding sedately on a low bicycle — usually with a front basket, a banana seat, and a sissy bar — festooned from end to end with bells, lights, horns, streamers, and occasionally pictures of the Virgin Mary. Lacking a camera I can’t do this justice, but it is one weird subculture, and there’s a paid article in it for someone more industrious than I am.
And while I have been failing to fill what Spinal Tap called a “much-needed void,” have a look at Alan Sullivan’s seaworthy new design, one of Sekimori’s better efforts. You should of course be reading him anyway. He’s a real poet, I just talk about them. Stumbling Tongue has a stirring defense of ignorance. Colby Cosh, who embarrassingly posts more when he says he isn’t blogging than I do when I say I am, discusses the politics of Witness, that Amish movie from the ’80s, but fails, oddly, to note how remarkably thick Kelly McGillis’s neck is.
I like Kelly McGillis’s thick neck! She looked very German in that film, not to mention damned sexy.
Grrr.
Still, given the choice, I’d prefer Greta Scacchi.
"Anyone who bicycles in New York will eventually encounter a Mexican man, in his 50s or 60s, riding sedately on a low bicycle usually with a front basket, a banana seat, and a sissy bar festooned from end to end with bells, lights, horns, streamers, and occasionally pictures of the Virgin Mary."
Oh, sure, make fun of what I put on my wheels.
(This reminds me of when I was in Cozumel during Christmas of 2001. We went to a beach play area that had a restaurant, various water toys — and a zoo. The zoo had some local fauna, including some very hostile monkeys, and a Virgin Mary.)
They locked a virgin named Mary in the ZOO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!???
Whatever for? Are they really that rare? And did that get them on Amnesty’s sh-t list?
Virgins named Mary? Sure they are. You know any over 16?