SAOM Provideth

A few weeks before its 2006 New York episode I became familiar with the Idiotarod. The event required the use--possibly abuse--of a shopping cart, which are not all that easy to obtain in New York City. Grocery stores go to substantial lengths to prevent bums (and miscreants) from making off with these rather expensive amenities. And the carts that have been plucked from their natural habitat and roaming the streets are invariably chained up or otherwise jealously guarded by their captors.

There were a few days of fantasizing complicated schemes that involved foraying out to the suburbs to raid megastore parking lots where carts of unbelievable size and vigor are known to roam free. Then one day on my usual walk from office to subway station, a cart appeared! Sitting on the sidewalk out in the open, in pristine condition, and unimmobilized, unattached, unsecured!

A week later it was the Christmas-present-disguised mobile armory of Team Full-figured Avenging Task-force of Santa Operatives.

I Came From NYC For {Bob}...

During one of her idle bouts in between gigs, Idabit had become an extreme fan of the campy long-running TV game show "The Price Is Right." So much so that she applied for the coveted, rare, hard to get tickets to a taping, and finally, in May of 2003, got some. Then I, 3 of her friends, and some rando named Adam joined her in flying out to L.A. for a few days to wait on line for hours for passes to be in the audience.

We made shirts.

Despite our best efforts, we did not get asked to Come on down. So "I came from NYC for {Bob} and all I got was {nothing}."