This is from memory; and memory is an hour-glass or an egg-timer (what’s the difference ‘tween an hour glass and an egg-timer – has any body ever had an “egg-timer figure”?) stepped on. I was probably about 11 or so, and my parents took me to the Met. That’s the big art museum in NYC not the big opera house in NYC. As an aside, even more than usual, this looks to be a blog of asides. For example that opera house in Lincoln Center, which as architecture, no as ... pudding?, is horrific. Honestly, it should add a brightly-murky pool, and a Holiday Inn sign, and you’d get, well, you’d get what it looks like. Oh, and another aside. A totally different Met, the museum, story  – there’s a picture in there by David (“dahveed”) of Socrates drinking the hemlock that ended his life. I took a date there when I was a teeny, and the security guard came over to us as we were staring at it and whispered in our ears:

“Do you know what he’s saying – I could’ve had a V8.”

Whatev. SO yeah I was outside the Met, the museum, I was 11 or so, and there was a street performer working a small crowd. He wasn’t playing a guitar. He wasn’t a mime, although he vaguely could’ve been one sorta, well sorta if there’s such a thing as a tough mime. He was doing amazing things. I don’t even remember most of them, but I do remember they were amazing. For example he had two people hold a rope and he, uh, walked on it. And um there was this, a little boy, littler than me, ran out of the crowd, and the performer pretended to get scared and ran, ran all the way up the Met. I mean he climbed the goddamn building. That was, uh, cool.

That summer, then again, I’m pretty sure it was that summer, I saw him again, or at least I read ‘bout him. He’d strung a rope between the World Trade Center towers and walked on it – across. His name is Philippe Petit and there’s a movie about him out now. He didn’t fall. Later, the towers did. What does this have to do with Paris Hilton. Nothing.

next week nyc boi will be on vacation so there won’t be a blog, see ya in two weeks everybody, and have a great one!