Only in Freakin' New York

So taking the CTA Green Line to work every day I saw some messed up crap. Lots of freaks, homeless men masturbating, obnoxious people, and plain old scary people. But I have to hand it to NYC, the ratio of "WFT?!?" to normal people is a lot lower. This has been a weekend of seeing some pretty funny shit.......

Saturday was a musical day. While heading to the upper west side to watch the Illini game we saw this

AND THIS.....

A mariachi band I understand. They're pretty common, though still amusing. But what the hell is that guy playing?! Yes, he is blowing into the keyboard. Should I mention now that he's blind? Our reactions were pretty much the same as the guy on the right.

The Illini lost. But it was close. It might have been our 3+ pitchers state at the time, but the subway ride home exposed us to the ugliest baby I have ever seen. Yes, there's a photo of that too, but again, due to the beer, it's kinda blurry...

Really, he was like 18 months old, and the kid's eyebrows were about as thick as my arm.

Sunday we decided to try the Shakespeare in the Park thing....which is ridiculous. The 8 PM show is free, but tickets are handed out at 1 PM.....our friend that is in the show suggested to get there at 10 AM, and of course we said "that's crap, we'll get there at noon." At noon the line was at least a half a mile long. People were camped out. We got in line anyway and had a street vendor lunch. Once the line started moving, this ex-hippie looking guy started riding by on a bicycle. He was holding a sign that said "Dracula 7734." He proceded to say "I'm an innocent man but I'm the real reason the World Trade Center exploded. Google this and you'll believe me. The government doesn't give you all the answers. We googled it, and only found a blog by a tourist that saw the same guy a couple months ago. While this is going on, there's a nice looking guy playing Beatles songs on the flute. It struck me as a little odd that he was very neatly dressed to go stand in the park and play music all day, but whatever. Then it happened. He tucked his flute under his arm, and started reading, no, YELLING POETRY!!!!.....

Really, that other blog we found also mentions the strange flautist. We didn't get tickets, but oh well, it was a learning experience. We saw Balls of Fury, which was great, then headed home, strange peopleless........HA...NO!.........

He was playing the keyboard and the dolls were dancing. Creepy. The other creepy thing I left out was the man on the subway with his 3 kids, and sweatpants boner. No, there is NOT a picture of that......

Today we're taking a drive down to one of the closer beaches on Long Island. Visit Jason's Blog to learn why this will be nothing short of an adventure....