TAXI MISSIONARY 2-1-00
I had a cab ride today that was a cross between Pee Wee's playhouse, a photo booth, and a monistary. I met a genuine NY-Freak. I think the freaks are the coolest people, without them, who would make life interesting? I want to do an article on this dude. It had to be one of my weirdest cab rides yet, a preacher cabbie! The cab was full of plastic flowers, toys, and photos of the cab driver holding giant fish. . .it was too weird.
He gave me literature, photocopies of newspaper articles about himself. The weird thing was, he kept trying to give me food, and a bible. He had tons of food he was about to drop at a shelter, and clothes for the homeless. Aparantly he does this everyday. He's a taxi missionary.
"I've been doing taxi work for 30 years,, the missionary work I've been doing for 20." he said.
I kept telling him, "thank you, I already ate."
"If you want I've got danish, bagels. . . how about a hard role, you want some pasteries?"
And they say all New Yorkers are Assholes.
Just another day in the life of an Art Juggernaut.
-Cojo