By now you've all heard of the attempted car bombing in New York's Time Square. In a great testament to New York City, life went on as usual over the weekend, I was in the Time Square subway station yesterday and you would never have known that anything out of the ordinary had happened. The tourists were wandering around cluelessly, the homeless people were walking around smellily and the hipsters were moseying around hipsterly. We just go on here like nothing went down, and though sometimes we forget to see that, it's pretty great when you realize how this truly is the city that never sleeps, or stops.
The car in question was found on the corner of 45th and Broadway (pictured above), a corner that I know quite well. It's actually the exact corner that I spent several years on, six nights a week, handing out tickets to one of our many comedy shows. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow (nor sanity), could stop us and we put on many great shows and some not-so great ones. Anyway, maybe I'm off on this one, but do you think there is a chance that this guy was just trying to ruin one of my shows and didn't realize we closed shops at that club a couple years ago? I know it's a long shot, but generally speaking terrorists don't like us liberal, homo, free-speech, comedy types.
Either that, or it also is the same corner of the MTV offices, and maybe the guy just didn't want another season of Jersey Shore. And really, who could blame him?
Ya, I turned a terrorism story into a Jersey Shore joke. A true professional, I am. Must've been all those years spent on the corner of 45th and Broadway.
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Or, as they say on "Glee," the show you don't watch, Dave: "THE Broadway."
THE Broadway sounds like something Constance Bennett would have said in a 1930s screwball comedy, in those 1930s-actress tones of hers: "We're going to the Broadway this weekEND." (The accent is on the second syllable, of course.)
Or as Lea DeLaria would say of the great Joey Heatherton. . .the BroadWAY. . .accent on the second syllable.
You realize, Barry, that Dave will not Google any of this. To him, we're like Burgess Meredith in the "Obsolete Man" episode of "The Twilight Zone."
I'm thinking that "The Twilight Zone" is the one reference Dave is old enough to know (re-runs, of course!). Other than that. . .I have faith in Dave. He'll be Googling up a storm, just you wait and see. The only person in the 21st century to be googling "Joey Heatherton," but still.
I'm so confused...
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