If you don't live in New York City, then your carbon footprint is three times larger than mine. That means you are three times worse a person than I am. (facts to back up statement)
Because I live in New York City, I ride to and from work and to and from bars and to and from friends' apartments and to and from subways on a subway. These trains run under the ground and they cost $2 a ride. And they are the reason that I am (at least) 3 x a better person than you. Because they run on homeless people's dreams, not fossil fuel.
Most times on the subway train, there's trash. When you're lucky, the trash isn't especially sticky or smelly, it's fun. It's glass bottles that roll around everywhere. And when you don't have an iPod and you hear a bottle rolling towards you over the sound of the train rolling towards Manhattan you can look up and see the bottle head for your shoes and you can lift your feet into the air so the bottle rolls on through and keeps going and hits someone in their loafer or Ked.
If blind people (and the people with small dogs in hand bags who can't afford taxis) weren't allowed to bring their dogs onto subway trains, and therefore I had never seen a dog on a subway train, then I think a rolling bottle would be the closest thing to a puppy I have ever seen on subway train.
The people who made the video that I am about to paste into this blog thought there was something depressing about a bottle rolling on a subway train, so they used depressing music. HUGE MISTAKE. Instead, mute the bottle video and play PLANET ROCK by AFRIKA BAMBAATAA while you watch that crazy bottle spin and twist! Then keep watching the AFRIKA BAMBAATAA video because it is amazing.
2 comments:
Awesome to see this site keep rollin'! Ryan, you're right, we don't leave carbon footprints, because New Yorkers are carried by Jesus (and he covers his tracks). Good first post, my man.
Planet Rock is very cool and if you like that then you should really watch the end of "Revenge of the Nerds" with me some day.
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