attack of the cane man!

last friday, we went to a concert of a guy named mike watt. the show was fun. the people in attendance were frightening. i’m used to the usual 4th avenue riff-raff, but this was beyond that. we’re talking escaped mental patients… with beer. (!) i think the one who garnered the most attention was the cane man. he looked to be about mid-20s with t-shirt, shorts, white socks, earring, and old person cane. he was very into all the bands. so much so that he would wave his cane around and thrust it forward in a punching motion. this kept a nice five foot circle around him so that no one would get caned. when the cane was not in use (and i don’t mean for walking, because it was never used for that purpose), it was tucked neatly down the front or back of the guy’s shirt. that’s right, he had a cane handle sticking out right by his neck (for safe keeping).

even better still was the drunk 40 year-old hipster next to ugly kid. he looked cool and i’m pretty sure he was hitting on ugly kid with his seductive swaying to-and-fro. he may have been hitting on me for that matter.

i know this is probably not the most politically correct thing to say, but i really felt like we were at a concert for the special olympics. good thing i don’t care much for political correctness and good thing no one reads this blog. i might have gotten in trouble like obama when he was on leno. that’ll teach him for going on leno.

so be careful when you go to concerts, because you never know when the cane man or the drunk hipster might show up and tear the roof off the place. you’ve been warned.