The day after MLK day
I Just finished my civic duty of waiting around at the Manhattan courthouse for jury duty for the 4th day and it turned out the trial I was selected to was just settled this morning so we were all let go. I did enjoy going down to that part of the city for a change and walking around Tribeca afterwards. I decided to walk up to Pearl Paint on Canal for a sketchbook. Afterwards, I kept walking north through SoHo and saw Terry Richardson riding by on a bicycle on MacDougal St. It was especially interesting timing since I just subscribed to his photo blog last week. Also, combination of seeing him and the RZA inspired me to see if I could grow sideburns like their's recently. My facial hair grows in uneven but I may get lucky and have enough contiguous patches to pull it off, we'll see if I can go through with it or not. If I had a chance to talk to him then I would have told him I found his side-beard inspiring and how I always remembered him from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition video 10-12 years ago or so.
Riding the train back, a black dude sat next to me talking about how he was ugly and black. He apologized for his ugly clothes and I said its fine. He said he wished he was white. I told him its not that great being white either. We he got off at times square I had a conversation for awhile with a black woman across from us who was really affected by this guy's comments, we agreed he was just ignorant and hoped he would figure it out someday. We also agreed it was much more important to think about the folks in Haiti and be thankful for what we have here, helping however we can.