So it’s a salubriously solar Saturday, and I’m hanging with fellow tourist Barry Wagner, and we had just finished checking out the Guggenheim (for just $5 since it was mostly closed down as they prepared a new exhibit). As we’re walking down Fifth Avenue, a lady asks me if I know where the nearest deli is. I tell her I’m a tourist, and then she totally segues in to telling me all the cool places for tourists to go. Along the way, she begins explaining how wandering randomly can help you find the best parties and the coolest people, and then she says she has a theory about men and beer…
Now if you follow my blog, you know I’m going to video this sort of spontaneous philosophizing. So I present, in unedited (but compressed) form — a woman named Alexis and her take on the effect of beer on men.
To video the video on Windows, you’ll need the Quicktime 7 Public Preview Release installed.
[...] Shannon posted the story to MySpace earlier today. And yes, our waitress was pretty much right up there with the random lady who offered up some wisdom about men, drinking, and the gay gene when I was up in NYC last year. [...]
[...] Now, I’ve had some interesting exchanges with random people in New York before, but I had to talk to the artist a bit… She was a bit reticent about being interviewed “on camera”, so I asked her a few questions and gleaned some interesting nuggets about her and her work. [...]