I had a pretty cool celebrity sighting yesterday--while heading to class on the bus around 2:30 PM yesterday, I saw Richard Manuel of The Band get on the bus shortly after I did.
I didn't talk to him because... 1) if I were a celebrity, I'd get pretty annoyed with people coming up to me asking if I were actually who I thought they were, and 2) Richard Manuel has been dead for 23 years.
(More after break.)
Or maybe not. I watched The Last Waltz a while back and noticed how strung up on heroin he looked, with these strange tics that would cause him to jerk his body around in a bizarre way every once in a while. WELL... this guy turned the tics up a few notches, seemingly unable to contain his body from jerking around constantly. Which I would assume is what Last Waltz-era Richard Manuel would look like 30 years down the road.
The only problems with the theory that this dude was in fact Manuel are that 1) he had significantly less gray hairs than I would think he would have (although Just For Men could easily solve that, I suppose), 2) his eyebrows were less bushy (I suppose he could have had them trimmed, though), and 3) Richard Manuel is dead.
If we're able to figure out those three problems, though... I'm 100% sure that was him.
Your headline has a lovely, lyric quality to it.
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