Thursday, March 17, 2005

strange detective

Last Saturday afternoon I was at World Cup coffee house and noticed the strangest thing. There was a guy I walked by whose hair seemed a little "off", then I noticed he was wearing an empty shoulder holster, then I realized he was wearing a wig, then I realized he had on a fake mustache!

This guy was sitting alone at a table and working on a laptop. His clothes were cheap detectivey with short sleeves and a loud paisley tie. He had a bit of a paunch, but it may have been padding. He seemed a little tired and wasn't acting at all hammy or self-conscious.

This guy looked like someone in his 20's disguised as a thirty-something version of NYPD Blue's Andy Sipowicz. So weird! It was like a non-performing performance – I’m not sure that anybody else even noticed him, although the coffee counter guy must have. Are there more people like this walking around in bad disguises?

What an interesting artist!

3 comments:

  1. He might have been a murder suspect on the lam. This is plausible in Richmond.

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  2. I saw some dudes, probably some undergrad art students from VCU, on a fire escape on Franklin Street who looked like they were shooting a remake of Spike Jonze's video for the Beastie Boys's song Sabotage. Probably the same kids.

    http://boss.streamos.com/download/capi001/beastieboys/sabotage/video/sabotage_v300.mov

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