Friday, December 18, 2009

Tales from The Subway Platform


It's the slapstick you wait a long time for. But when it happens, you can't stop laughing.

It started with a glance, then I saw it. While getting off the 4 train and heading up stairs, I watched the figure of a guy below me, platform level, lose his footing and slip on something. "Gaww!" he shouted, and got bumped and unpopular for messing up the "escape" route for everyone around him. A crowd of people turned and stared: he stepped on a banana peel. On the busiest platform in rush hour traffic. Hah haw!

Book of the morning: Dummies book of Yorkshire Terriers. She was reading the chapter about "Doing the do: grooming". I can only imagine if you read it, you'd learn a thing or two about what do about the bow and those hair braids.

Michel Gondry
I picked up the new Michel Gondry DVD this week, came out in April this year. Another solid 3 hours of music videos, short films, behind the scenes. Here's a good one: Classic-yet-corny Paul McCartney's Dance Tonight, complete with a a rare but totally sweet live cameo of Michel playing drums at the end. Kinda hard to see in the Youtube clip, but it's totally him rocking this disco beat with Paul, and it's way cooler than the song itself. It's the best party ever, a funkadelic version of happy hell, Paul's discotech. Everyone parties hard, and the postal driver goes MIA.


Finally, I heard the news today, oh boy: Chris Henry, RIP. Jesus. Why.

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Alex Baker works in NYC doing web development during the day and puts on a cape to solve riddles and crime by night. In his free time, he shreds the skins in DBCR, explores NYC and other places and geeks out on new tech.