Thursday, March 12, 2015

Take on the Times Square Kiss-cam

Is there anything more ridiculous than that big stupid kiss-cam in the middle of Times Square? Every day I try to walk home and get stuck behind this crowd of 100 people trying desperately to get their miserable Midwestern mugs onto some big jumbo-screen for 15 miserable seconds. It is not as if there is some value or a prize for getting onto the screen as nobody is giving out free pack of gum or rolls of condoms, so the only pleasure must be seeing yourself on a grainy TV screen.

At least when people go nuts at a baseball game there are 50,000 other people looking, in this case the only people who are even paying attention are the same people in the shot

Get a life and get out of my way

1 comment:

Mr. R. Lee said...

Times Square is better than it was in the 60s and 70s. It used to be hell on earth. See Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" for reference.

I prefer today's Times Square to that.