Although not strictly about magic, we do listen to Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast every week. His humor is not for everyone – like minors, people with normal emotional values, the sensitive among us – but he is funny to us.
This week’s episode features Lewis Black and a short discussion about David Copperfield and Doug Henning.
We were listening whilst walking to the busy editorial office of Inside Magic and getting strange looks from the folks we were passing in the street, along the sidewalks, through narrow crevices, around bends and over small mounds of what appeared to be clothing or people wearing clothing but not moving. We are accustomed to being stared at. We chalk it up to our boyish good looks, effervescent charm, efficient use of tartar control toothpaste, naturally curly nose hair and willingness to take adventures in clothing choices.
For instance, today, we wore contrasting animals from the Garanimals collection. We went with a Tiger “Top” and a Giraffe “Lower.” That says “Wild Human” in any language.
We know, crazy, right?!
We thought people were staring because we were laughing so much. We thought maybe they were sharing in our glee and not staring derisively but when one elderly woman was nearly struck by an auto as she tried to scurry across Santa Monica Boulevard to avoid our path, we figured out that the people of West Hollywood just have not seen unadulterated joy. Chances are that if they haven’t seen it enough, they haven’t experienced it either.
So we offered to share our podcast listening experience with those we encountered. We even cleaned the ear bud of the unsightly wax build-up (our own — we think) before trying to stick it into the ears of our fellow pedestrians. We were not aggressive in our ear bud offering and were certainly not, as was written in an “incident” report “trying to stab victims in the head with an implement.”
Long story short, people were staring at us because we apparently accidentally sat in a chocolate cream pie at some point and our Giraffe pants needed dry cleaning stat. We were pretty sure it was chocolate cream pie residue and that certainly explained why we left stains everywhere we sat in the last few days.
Tonight, we return to the Magic Castle with our new routine – freshly choreographed and scripted. We will change our clothes before visiting the amateur rooms downstairs at the Magic Castle. If you are in the neighborhood, stop by and say hello. Just don’t stare and point.
