Today held a collection of weird-ass sights. Some were so odd I just had to stare. I'm not a big starer, believing that gawking can be rude and annoying (especially when it causes bottlenecks) but I was jostled out of my normally fluid ways today by the following odd sights:
1. Man with Seemingly Dead Dog
I was walking past the Seagram's Building on 53rd Street and it's got this huge plaza out front. And smack in the middle of the plaza, completely alone is a man on a cellphone, holding the leash of a dog that is totally couched out. I mean, laying there as if it's dead. (Not with its legs up in the air like we used to do when we played dead dog as kids, but almost as stereotypical as that.) It couldn't have looked deader if it tried.
As I walked past, I looked at the dog and then at the man and then back at the dog. The dog wasn't breathing, I swear. But the man didn't seem remotely concerned.
So maybe he has A Very Shallow Breathing Dog. (oh I hope so.)
2. Man About to Wash His Windows With a Teddy Bear
I was walking to the subway and there was a guy in his front yard (or what passes for a "front yard" in Brooklyn) and he was taking the jacket off of a teddy bear. Because, I swear, he was going to use that bear to wash his windows. I'm not at all sure what gave me this impression, but I felt terrible for the bear, and thought for sure there must be a better way to clean windows.
(I guess the guy was just taking off the jacket so as to not get it dirty.)
3. Art?
There's a storefront gallery space near my apartment and on the way home I saw that they were installing a new piece. It's a sculpture/painting/thingamabob/whoosiewhatzit that, if I had to sum it up in three words would be simply "infected volcanic buttholes."
I stared least long at this particular sight.
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