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• 11.12.09 09:00 am 
Here are two great shorts about local loonies in Williamsburg.
Here are two great shorts about local loonies in Williamsburg.
Study For “A Moral Society” from russel fong on Vimeo.
A Place To Be In Harmony from russel fong on Vimeo.
-BRYCE
Fucking great, thanks.
i see them both every day!
This is the greatest thing you have posted this year. “The dude that drives around singing oldies” is the best. Now he has a story.
Both loonies, but one is just having a good time and the other is seriously mentally ill. I love the dude who drives around singing.
these are stellar. more of this, less of making out & selling makeup.
god this is awesome
the second one made my day.
i saw the first loony (the tall jesus guy) in a street fight in the east village years ago. he was bleeding from the mouth, but didn’t seem to give a shit. he was fighting some suburban kid who was in some kung-fu stance. tall crazy guy kept kicking kung-fu-kid in the shin and saying “yeah!? what was that? what do you call that?” as if to mock the kid’s “kung-fu.”
tall jesus guy was in the east village forever — when i finally saw that he had moved to williamsburg i said “the transition is complete. they have taken the entire east village, and parachuted it into williamsburg.”
awesome. i love the second guy.
That first guy is a loonie we used to call “Screaming Jesus” back in the nineties. He hung out in Thompkins Square just shouting the wierdest most poetic blither you’ve ever heard. Best thing I ever heard him say when was when he yelled at some guy walking his dog.
He said, “If you lived in a human society you wouldn’t need a sheep dog to tell you where to go!”
-Screaming Jesus
I love Lawrence, although since it got so cold I haven’t seen him in a while. he always says hello and smiles at me.
but yeah.
I wanna see something on the dude who walked through McCarren park really, really slow this summer and had legs as long as my entire body (and I’m 5’7). we called him Daddy Long Legs. he walked like he was being warped through a time continuum.