How About A Day Without Morons Using Midtown Manhattan As The Setting For Media-Whorative Performance?
No chance. There’s always some jackass somewhere . . . :
Posted: April 1st, 2008 | Filed under: Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, ManhattanOne Monday last month, the Contigianis staged a New York version of the Day of Slow Living (“It has to be a Monday, the worst day to try to slow down,” Bruno explained). As part of the celebration, Bruno was issuing phony speeding tickets to pedestrians rushing through Union Square. He was wearing a police badge and cap, mirrored sunglasses, and a sandwich board proclaiming, “Caution! Speed-walking camera in action!” Wielding a stuffed turtle with a “STOP” badge on its belly, he flagged down passersby and handed them postcards printed with fourteen “slowmandments.” (No. 4: “Write your text messages on your cell phone with no symbols or abbreviations and get in the habit of starting with ‘Dear . . .’ ” No. 7: “Avoid being so busy and full of work that you don’t have time for yourself and the delight of thinking about nothing.”) “Read once a day and keep the doctor away,” Bruno counselled one woman who stopped to pick up a brochure. “You will be on YouTube!” he shouted gleefully to another retreating figure.