"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
It poured rain here last night, and apparently hailed in Brooklyn and Manhattan, but the weather was nothing special today. In fact, this whole Tuesday was nothing special here, a decent enough day, but just one in a string of many.
Next in that string, Wednesday. This week, I guess, that’s technically my Thursday, since I’m only working a four-day week. Oh man, I hope that doesn’t mean I’ll have two Thursdays this week. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
“Coma Girl” by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros.
Into action, everybody sprang
And the oil drums were beating out do-lang do-lang
It’s a show about a little boy who runs around capturing wild animals, locking them up in a tiny cage, and then pitting them against other wild animals in brutal gladiatorial contests. Really, I don’t think there’s anything you could do to make this one darker if you tried.
No days off for me until Friday this week, so it was back to work this morning. For a day that was pretty much the apotheosis of uneventful. Even Manhattan’s Columbus Day parade, which I thought I might be able to get a few photographs of, turned out to be a bust, either because it hadn’t started yet when I went out for lunch, or because pedestrian congestion and police barricades made it impossible to get to the right parts of 5th Avenue.
Next up: Tuesday.
“Innà mér syngur vitleysingur” by Sigur Rós.
I’m not the biggest Sigur Rós fan, but I’ve heard that this is a little atypical of their other albums, a little happier maybe. So that might explain why I like this so much.
And I don’t know why, but that opening fanfare always puts me in mind of the Mighty Mouse theme song.
