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| jburt1 (profile) wrote, on 8-19-2004 at 11:52pm | |
| For being completely spontaneous/random, tonight was a blast. Originally, Lauren and I planned on going to the art museum together because thursdays are free and we are intellectual like that, but some special event was going on so we couldn't get in. Instead, we walked around downtown muskegon looking for something to do, and if you know muskegon, you know the downtown is pathetic. We found a "secret garden" to explore before walking through the "historic district" in search of "Alladdin's Magic Shop," which unfortuneately is VERY closed, as in hasn't been in business for years. So...we returned to the museum parking lot where some poor black guy approached us. Funniest thing ever. I could hardly understand what he was saying. Something about being bitten by a dog (didn't see any marks) therefore needing money for food? Yeah, I don't really understand the logic there either, but lauren and I each gave him a buck or so. What made it funny was that he told me he would pay me back...and then he went galloping away. Ahh, memories. After having a good laugh, we decided to hit up tcby and valueland. Deja-vuish from last week, but this time we came early enough to actually walk around and look at everything. A lot of stuff there is hilarious (like a decapitated bambi perfume bottle that some lady ended up buying) but some stuff seems pretty cool, like an old film projector and some old-school camera. They had a sale on books where you could buy one and get another for 10 cents, so you can guess what we bought. I got this book called A Matter of Honor by Eugene Izzi. It takes place in chicago and deals with race issues and the escalation of hate. I dunno, but it sounds really good. The other one WAS going to be Airframe by Michael Creighton, just because I used to read his stuff in the past and liked it. This book didn't seem too interesting though, so lauren gave me the ingenious idea of scratching the price sticker off another book that I wanted, which was selling for almost $5. (We were both dirt poor after contributing to the hungry-dog-bitten man and tcby, so $5 was a lot). Anyways, the replacement book I got is called Day of Confession by Allan Folsom, author of The Day After Tomorrow. Yeah, I don't know if that's related to the movie or what, but this book sounds really interesting. It deals with some cardinal in the vatican that get's assinated and then the priest they think did it supposedly gets blown up, so his brother goes to investigate. Our night wasn't over when valueland closed, though, so we headed over to Meijer to chill on the futons while reading magazines. I swear, someone was being paged and the person doing the page added some weird, funny tone to the end of their name when he said it. It was like he was joking around, but otherwise it's hard to explain. Also very funny. That was about the extent of my evening. It's weird because 3 things lauren and I talked about earlier, showed up later on the books and magazines at valueland, including The Secret Garden, an Alias book with Jennifer Garner on the front, and an AARP magazine. Then, people we saw earlier in the evening seemed to connect. Like we saw this kid at tcby and then at valueland. Then we saw this guy at valueland before seeing him again at meijer. Probably not that strange, but it's weird because maybe this happens all the time and we just don't pay attention to it? Well, I'm spent. Good times... | |
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| Anonymous | 08-20-04 5:12pm Heyy
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joslyn_julia | 08-20-04 7:24pm i will call later, but my mom and dad are all freaking out because i am going to be driving around muskeegon and i might get lost in the getto or something but, yeah... i will ttyl |