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September 18, 2005
New York Belongs to Me: World's Smallest Horse
[communiqué from guest blogger Dr. Mulli in New York City]
West 13th Street
6th Avenue
West 10th Street
Washington Square West
Prince Street
Mott Street
Canal Street
Elizabeth Street
Division Street
Confucius Plaza
Mulberry Street
Chanoodle Vietnamese Restaurant
Eggplant, Tomatoes and Minced Pork: Chef Specialty
Bayard Street
Columbus Park
Centre Street
Grand Street
Mulberry Street
The humidity was finally down and it was deep blue everywhere, so I did one of my (regular-by-now and getting even more meandering) Chinatown treks. On the walk back through Little Italy, the Feast of San Gennaro was going on at Grand and Mulberry, and something caught my eye. They had a truck there, and you could walk up a few steps, pay one dollar, and look down into a clean little pen and see ‘World’s Smallest Horse.’ I thought this might serve as a substitute for my desire to see the tightrope-walking and two-leg-walking Moscow Cat Theatre which would be at the TriBeCa Festival through October. (The cats and their master are demanding outrageous fees, but it’s still too early to know if my plan worked, as sometimes it’s my very profligacy that will turn a profit.) The old-fashioned carnival-coloured sign showed a tiny Italianate horse, and read ’10 Inches at Birth.’ Later, I heard the hawker saying ‘he’s 26 inches now,’ which cracked me up. They took good care of little brown and white ‘Oreo’, would allow no petting, feeding—and no photos! which they were able to enforce (unlike various moron celebrities, whom I’ve read have recently been caught smoking and try to make deals with their paparazzi not to publish.) I am not sure if this was cine-musique per se, but never have I seen the most delightfully innocent ‘young phenomenon’ (as Flaubert’s peasant advertised his sheep with 5 legs and trumpet-shaped tail) combined with the verbally ribald so perfectly.
Broome Street
Broadway
West 3rd Street
Washington Square East
6th Avenue
West 13th Street
Posted by Dr. Mulli at September 18, 2005 04:30 PM