BARTist after work.

[duccio]

I started talking with this guy I was sitting next to on the way home on BART. He looked over and asked how I was and I smiled and said I was fine but kinda tired from work. Then he volunteered the opinion that I looked like Wavy Gravy, "Did I know who he is?"

"Of course," I said. "Merry Prankster. Hog Farm."

He laughed, and I said, "That's the nicest thing anybody has said to me all day." Then I told him I actually was going for the Leonardo da Vinci look. He said he thought I was meaning Leonardo di Caprio?

I said, "Hell no, although he was good in Gangs of New York", and we started discussing the nationalist gangs vs. the Irish gangs, the draft riots and the drafting of the immigrants fresh off the boat to fight in the Civil War, Daniel Day Lewis, other stuff. He said he'd never seen it because he thought it might be too violent. I confirmed his suspicions, describing in detail some of Daniel Day Lewis's butchery. He decided to go home and watch it. Heh! I have the vocal power to turn peaceniks from Berkeley into "gang goremets".

He got up to leave and I reminded him... "remember: Leonardo." I hope I run into him again on my occasional commutes.

Comments

[shinsetsu]

He looks like a grungy Richard Gere with long hair. :)