Word to your cruller

I can’t believe I didn’t bring my camera.

Around 12:30 yesterday a colleague and I managed to wander into Copley Square where we spotted a spectacle – a giant stage, huge plumes of colorful balloons, and loud music. Plus a couple of people dressed up as iced coffee.

Oh yes, I witnessed the Dunkin’ Donuts rapping contest – people rapped about their love of ice coffee. And the celebrity judges were Lenny Clark (of the terrible The Winner and the critically-lauded Rescue Me) and his iceness himself, Vanilla Ice.

People rapped to Ice Ice Baby. And they took it pretty seriously. They had lyrics, a few had clearly practiced and many were ready to bust some moves in their business casual office wear.

And me without my camera.

I thought the guy with the beard did pretty well – he had a full song’s worth of lyrics, not just the first verse like so many others. We dubbed him MC Nerdypants. But he was clearly outmatched by crowd favorite, Blonde lady with two little girls. Evidently she’s a professor somewhere.

Go Doctor Smarty! She won some stuff, we all shuffled away, and I missed my best opportunity to catch that day’s weirdness. But this is just a reminder – now that it is officially spring, more weirdness should abound.

I’ve loaded up my camera with fresh batteries. I’ll be ready next time, GF.

Labels: 2007, Boston, weird stuff