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Weird NYC

Posted by plumpdumpling on March 2, 2010 – 1:30 pm      
Filed under living in new york is neat

When I got off the subway last night in Brooklyn, there was a Latino man in a velour Statue of Liberty costume singing along and dancing to the Spanish-language music on his headphones in the middle of the street.

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8 Comments

  1. Jack says:
    March 2, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    Umm .. proof? Why’d you get that nice new camera if not to post funny videos on your blog??

    • plumpdumpling says:
      March 2, 2010 at 4:38 pm

      Jack, you know I don’t have the imagination to make these things up. The camera is only for close-up self-portraits and videos of the puppies.

  2. thickcrust says:
    March 2, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    I hope you shoulder-checked him – or at least flung something nasty on him – for listening to his music loud enough that you could tell what language the song was being sung in.

    • plumpdumpling says:
      March 2, 2010 at 7:33 pm

      I’m sure you already know this, but because you decided to call me out on it, I couldn’t actually hear the music coming from his headphones. I could only hear the lyrics he was singing. And because I assume that most people aren’t listening to English pop bands on their iPods and translating their lyrics into Spanish for the people of the Graham Ave. L stop, I assume that the man was listening to Spanish-language music. I could be wrong.

      But I’m not.

  3. Bachelor Girl says:
    March 2, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    Finally, Shreveport has something in common with NYC! There’ve been people in velour Statue of Liberty costumes standing around on Youree Drive to advertise some furniture store.

  4. plumpdumpling says:
    March 3, 2010 at 11:03 am

    Clearly, the only thing you can do here is get a costume of your own, go stand amongst them on Youree Drive, and sing some Menudo.

  5. Cristy says:
    March 3, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    I just wanted to say that I LOVE what you decided on for the page. The wallpaper-y design mixed with the pink and grays are really cool. And, you kept the potatoes!! :)

    As for the guy, I believe it. I saw some weird stuff when I was living in Boulder – I bet the two cities have some strange commonalities.

    • plumpdumpling says:
      March 12, 2010 at 11:05 am

      Thanks! I’m pretty happy with it, too, although it looks terrible in Internet Explorer, which I didn’t realize before I started messing with it.

      I want to hear about this weird stuff you saw in Boulder!