Pink Umbrella Man: The Movie!

For those of you who would like a bit of diversion from the recent news full of diapered astronauts in love and speculation as to what led to poor Anna Nicole Smith's untimely death, and for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about when I discuss my friend Robert the Pink Umbrella Man, click on the above for the blockbuster YouTube film about him, the scintillating, yet strangely misspelled, "Inigma in Pink."

Robert, whom I actually like (occasionally, he'll have a short conversation with me--he's a very nice person and always waves at me and says hi, though I have to say hi first), was in his "shrugging" phase at the time of this movie. That is, if I asked him how his day was going, he'd shrug. My Peets writing-and-Russian Caravan -tea experience on Wednesdays in Santa Cruz (if there's ever a seat) would truly not be the same without his smile. My son Riff knows Robert quite well, as Riff goes to school near downtown Santa Cruz, and Robert told him that he didn't create the myspace account which the movie discusses. But you never know if Robert is just being mysterious, as he is, after all, the "Inigma in Pink!"

So relax and enjoy the show (and remember, if you see Robert walking along, be nice to him, because he's a kind and gentle soul, and he cheers a lot of folks up around our humble town).