25 February 2001

Submitted by eve on Mon, 02/26/2001 - 4:01pm. Scenes

Seen:
A girl about 4 years old, wearing a pink dress with a full skirt, running down the sidewalk. She was followed by a man wearing a suit, top hat, and handlebar moustache, carrying a balloon, after dark on a street in St Francis Wood

It reminded me of Herr Drosselmeyer and Clara, except for the fact that they were walking down a street in San Francisco, and not, say, in a ballet production onstage.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 01/01/2003 - 7:56pm.

Archived comment by Kate:
like the reference... you have seen vampires... fun fun fun

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 09/24/2002 - 7:40pm.

Archived comment by adam:
your stories are fascinating

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/11/2001 - 6:15pm.

Archived comment by dorothy:
ahh, pman...Invisibles, now there's a reference

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 02/28/2001 - 4:57am.

Archived comment by pman:
Eve-
Pay no attention to those spotlights falling from the sky! Stay home, where you are safe. Travel is dangerous, and strangers are often paranoid and mentally unbalanced, continually talking about a "real world". And if someone named King Mob, or Robin, wants to talk to you, run the other way. Some things aren't worth the price...

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 02/27/2001 - 9:39pm.

Archived comment by steff:
i thought it sounded creepy and rad-bradbury-ish.
somehow. i dunno. ANYway, when i first moved to
fort collins, literally the very first person i
saw walking down the street was a man in a green
velour trench coat and a top hat. the woman with
him was dressed normally except for a red and
white striped 'dr. who' scarf that was nearly
dragging the ground. i suspect she'd borrowed it
from him. =) and i thought, 'this will be just
fine!' sadly, i've been unable to find a velour
trench coat of any suitable color. this town has
just gone downhill.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 02/27/2001 - 5:22pm.

Archived comment by Eve:
Sameer, I have witnesses for this one, they thought it was a pretty unusual scene too. As for how I see these things, I have two explanations. One is that I live in an unusual area. The other idea is... well, at the best it's farfetched and at the worst it's egocentric. Paranoid? Nah, I'm not yet.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 02/27/2001 - 3:28pm.

Archived comment by sarah:
Aw, that's so cute! It sounds like something I would have done, and made my dad do when I was 4.

It sounds like something I'd still do. Not with my dad, though.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 02/27/2001 - 1:02pm.

Archived comment by Sameer:
Eve... How come you get to see the weirdest things? I mean, I'd never see something like THAT in a million years. How come we people dont notice such weird stuff happening around us? Are we so preoccupied?

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 02/27/2001 - 2:43am.

Archived comment by Eve:
Passerby wins quite a few cool points there. Though I suspect Jeunet and Caro had rather messed up childhoods, they are a brilliant directing team.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 02/26/2001 - 11:23pm.

Archived comment by Passerby:
Personally, I think the two of them looked a lot more like something out of a shared dream between Krank and Miette.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 02/26/2001 - 8:17pm.

Archived comment by Mike:
Hmph. Given the fact that a lot of the visitors to your web site are self-professed geeks and/or science majors and/or uncultured heathens practically raised in the wild, I'm kinda surprised that you didn't explain exactly who the hell "Herr Drosselmeyer and Clara" are. Damn confusing artistic references. I'm a moron, I know.
Oh, and the link was... interesting. Reading "Willie Mays on Miraloma Drive" reminded me that San Francisco wasn't always known as a liberal/progressive stronghold. Um, wait-- is it known as one now?
"To wear ballet costumes while out on an evening stroll is to betray your future."
True where I live, anyway....

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 02/26/2001 - 7:39pm.

Archived comment by umrguy:
If I was caught in a pink dress with a full skirt, I'd damn well better be dead. :o)

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 02/26/2001 - 6:50pm.

Archived comment by Pedro:
I wouldn't be caught dead wearing a pink dress with a full skirt!

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