It is four in the morning. Hepcat and I are awake – each at our own computers. We just watched "History of Violence." I fell asleep early in the evening and woke up at midnight. Hence, energy to watch a movie and blog…
Hepcat is chortling to himself, laughing hysterically, reading stuff out loud and laughing some more. All because he’s reading a very funny web site called Improv Everywhere.
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public
places. Created in August of 2001 by
Charlie Todd, Improv
Everywhere has executed over 50 missions involving hundreds
of undercover agents. The group is based in New York
City.
Hepcat enjoyed the mission called Cell Phone Symphony. Here are the details.
Last Spring I received an email from someone who had heard about us on This American Life. He wrote:There’s a scene I’ve been wanting to pull off, but I don’t have the manpower. Feel like helping?
This is the gist: you know The Strand? (I work there). Know the bag
check? As you can imagine, with all those bags and coats and things,
people leave their cell phones with the guy. Occasionally they go off.What I’m thinking is, you get a group of people, thirty or so, who all
come into the shop and check their bags with their phones in ’em. At
some later point, every single phone checked into the bag check starts
to ring at the same time. It’d be bedlam.Like to help?
I think it’s time we went to bed.