A little update of my own on Gene Lee, RIP...
I guess word is that he committed suicide.
Anyway, watch this entire video.... the dudes who made it showed it to me today when someone brought up Gene's death. It's actually kinda eerie, and pretty trippy.
What are other well-knowns on the streets of Chicago??? We got Pigeon Man (RIP), the Muffin Lady, even the 80s boombox lady.... then there's also JOJO BABY! Whom I still love from afar and fear all at the same time. There's the Logan Square shopping-cart Christmas tree man, who I've seen numerous times months before and up until Christmas, the Logan/Humboldt & up-and-down-Pulaski Loony Tunes man who jams to his walkmen, wears a headband and an oversized Bugs Bunny t-shirt while selling other ridiculously big airbrushed Tweety and Taz tees. There's even the countless CTA celebrities; enter the traveling blind man, with his huge ass eyes wide open, who transfers from cart to cart and hits everyone with his walking stick on his way through. No one ever knows if it's ok to even look at him let alone make eye contact (oops) because you're still not convinced he's blind.
And...??? Who else, there's more....
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
More Gene, the 6-corner dancing machine
Posted by HANANNE at 11:26 PM