Sunday whilst walking around the lake with Dan and Jules getting sunburned and trying to avoid being run over by rollerbladers, something whizzed past us at the speed of light leaving a rainbow comet trail of glitter behind it.
"What was that mysterious entity?" says I to Dan and Jules, and they were just as dumbfounded as I. I suddenly felt a rush of lightheadedness and needed to sit down. A warming sense of deja vu swept over me and every power within me told my eyes to follow the rainbow.
At the end of the rainbow was a man that looked a lot like Seinfeld creator Larry David wearing the shortest, tightest pair of shorts you can imagine (so tight I could tell what religion he was, as they say) and an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt exposing his tan, leathery chest with tufts of silver hair. He was on a pair of black rollerskates and had headphones on - not sure what he was listening to, but it's safe to assume whatever it was, it was telling him to swirl and twirl around on his rollerskates like he was an extra in CHiPs. I have never seen somebody so fearless and daring on rollerskates: he was skating backwards doing 'S' shapes all over the trail, spinning around like a psychedelic tornado, and somehow amazingly dodged everyone and everything in his path as if he had eyes in the back of his head.
Everyone on the trail stopped what they were doing to watch this man in action. People pointed. Dan was speechless. Jules said he should wear a cape. I felt like I was watching Xanadu. I've seen this dude a few times before - VomitGod, you may remember when we were biking on Calhoun a year ago and he was doing this exact same thing. But when we saw him, he was doing it in the middle of Lake Street.
This guy is so lame that he's awesome. If you're ever in the Lake Calhoun area, be on the lookout for him - he's pretty hard to miss.
