May 19, 2004

More Crazy Train People

Today's Crazy Train Person was a 50-something black man in a heavy leather jacket. He stood in the aisle a row ahead of me, arm extended, staring at his wrist where one might wear a watch, although his wrist was bare. He mumbled softly, his lips moving rhythmically, and I could hear snippets of what sounded like "mimimimimimimimimi." At regular intervals, he unleashed coughs of epic volume, coughs that shook my copy of White Teeth and sent spittle flying. Then he went back to studying his wrist and murmuring. After the second cough, the people in the seats below him moved to other parts of the car, but he didn't sit down. He stood there, studying and chanting and coughing on some cue that only he could understand.

Posted by mike, May 19, 2004 10:31 AM
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I know that guy! He hangs out at the corner of Belmont and Sheffield all the time. He's fascinating.

Posted by: Shawn at May 19, 2004 12:52 PM

He does sound interesting, but I wouldn't want him coughing on me. UGH. The one reason I miss winter is because I can wear mittens on the train.

Nice new masthead, Mike! But where did all the sidebar links go?

Posted by: Amy at May 19, 2004 3:08 PM

Stupid blog. It's fine on my screen, but I've seen it mess up on others. I'll work on it tonight. It has to do with screen resolution or something. I'll have to make it more adaptable.

Posted by: mike at May 19, 2004 3:32 PM

the sidebar links will move to the bottom if the browser window isn't wide enough.

my favorite train dude was a guy reading aloud from a hindu text on the nature of being.

Posted by: travis at May 20, 2004 10:29 AM

you've successfully fixed the sidebar problem in IE, but made it worse in Netscape/Mozilla

Posted by: travis at May 21, 2004 11:16 AM

I didn't do anything to it.

Posted by: mike at May 21, 2004 11:33 AM

Interestingly, it looked the same way it always does on my computer... until I clicked on the comments. Then all the sidebars disappeared. Hmm.

Posted by: shane at May 24, 2004 10:43 AM

It should be ok now. I never got sidebars when I looked at comments.

Posted by: mike at May 24, 2004 11:06 AM