Get yours, then go to sleep

I was walking down Bleecker Street in the Village and two guys were directly behind me, discussing the G spot.

"I don't think it exists", said one.

"I've been looking for that shit for 5 years. It ain't there!" said the other.

"The way I see it, just get yours and go to sleep! If women didn't know about it for 5,000 years and then some scientist had to tell them about it 20 or so years ago, it just don't exist!!!!"

Funny, I didn't see these guys walking with any girlfriends.

Real live dead bodies

JDM and I went to "Bodies: The Exhibition" at South Seaport, where the Fulton Fish Market was for decades before it moved out to Long Island City in Queens a few months ago.

(Best newspaper headline for that event was: "So long, and thanks for all the fish.")


SO ... "Bodies" was like a 3-D anatomy lesson featuring the bodies of preserved people. There were adult humans cut in ways one cannot even imagine -- you have to see it. JDM and I were particularly interested because, as personal trainers, we have had to learn all of these anatomical parts and joint movements in our studies.

www.bodiestickets.com

Shake what your mama gave ya!

Shake it till it falls right off!

JDM and I went to a Hafla tonight. "Hafla" means "party" in some Middle Eastern langauage (I forget which one). This hafla was at:

Laugh Factory
303 West 42nd st @ 8th ave
212-586-7829

It comprised a belly dance show by the dancers of SharQui -- the Bellydance Workout www.sharqui.com

Women of all ages and belly circumfereces were up there shaking it. They were damn good! Most compelling was Serpentessa, who danced with 3 boa constrictors around her neck. Yikes. The audience was invited to come pet the boas at intermission, but since I have seen the same thing at Coney Island, I decided to skip it.

There is a red nose up in Spanish Harlem

There are scores of clowns in NYC, but only once in a while do I see one in the actual get-up.

I was at the corner of E 104th Street and Lexington Avenue in Spanish Harlem when i saw one such clown. He was in his full-on clown regalia, red nose and all. He was standing on one corner of the street, and directly across the street was a young guy waiting to cross the street. The guy had a pair of 30-lb dumbbells by his feet.

The clown yelled to the guy "You have to wait for the light to change before you cross, otherwise it's jay-walking. So I am learning to wait to cross. It's called WAIT training! Get it?" he says, pointing to the guy's dumbbells. "No charge for the joke."

The guy smiled.

I see a saw lady

At 3p today, Natalie Paruz "The Saw Lady" was at the 59th Street Station playing "America the Beautiful" on her saw. This is an ordinary carpenter's saw. but she uses a violin bow on it to make high-pitched quavering music.

I have seen her on and off since getting to NYC in May 2004. I recently tread about her in the NYC "Metro" which is the free paper you find near the subways on weekday mornings. She was featured in the real estate section with her live-in boyfriend, who also did something rather offbeat. Apparently, between the two of them, they make enough money to not only buy a house, but to create an organic garden of some sort.

Even a woman who plays a saw makes more money than I do. Oh well.

www.sawlady.com

celeb sighting

I saw Sam Waterstone of "Law & Order" fame coming out of Borders in Columbus Circle. He had his face down, but kept looking up every now and then. I guess he didn't want to be bothered. It must suck to walk with your head down all the time. Glad I am a non-famous brokeass.