Uncle Scam & the Amazing Cup of Tea

 
 
 
 
Spent a lovely day in Cambridge and Havard Square. After hitting a great toy shop called Henry Bear's Park, I stopped for a relaxing tea at this cosy tea shop on Brattle St. Wenners would TOTALLY dig it. The very cute tea maker showed me a list of teas but I feigned ignorance and told him to 'surprise me'. What a great decision. He brough me some wonderful black tea with a egg timer and told me to take the infuser out pronto our else the tea would get bitter. Yum! Great people watching.

Across the street I met a man who was protesting George Bush (I think) by putting on this adult puppet show. You can see the large puppet thing in the picture and he was in it with a microphone spouting off songs, poems, rambles...etc. Turns out, his name is Uncle Scam and he has a web site!
I sat down and watched him for awhile. And without knowing it, he an I began having this strange conversation out loud and in front of all these people. He's ask me things like, "Did your mother ever sing you this song when you were a kid?" and "Dick Cheney is like the booger in your nose, right?" I was transfixed. I was laughing away and then I realized that people were actually laughing at me, laughing at him. It was weird. I was part of some urban protest art form. So cheers to Uncle Scam for liberating me!