Listening to Merle Haggards "Okie from Muskogee" with the great line leather boots are still in style for manly footwear.. I thought of a couple of backseat rides I've had with semi famous people where the subject of cool shoes came up. First, in the interest of full disclosure, I have always had a thing for cool/cruel shoes..ever since my first pair of points. My mom said they would ruin my feet, but I didn't care... I just wanted shoes as pointy as George Harrison's. (It turns out she was right, but that's another story) Anyway, I shared a cab this past spring after the White House Corespondents Dinner with Maureen Dowd from the NYT. She complimented my two tone white and black patent tux shoes, and for some reason that reminded me of a ride many years ago with Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson in Detroit. We were going to an instore someplace, Hunter was being surly, and so I noticed Micks cool red tennis shoes. When I asked him where he got them, his face lit up... as if he'd been waiting for someone to inquire..... and he turned me on to Trash& Vaudeville in the Village. (St. Marks Place). I got some pretty awesome shoes there over the years..my faves being a pair or purple and white zig zag cloth points. I'll never forget getting a thumbs up and a Goddamn young man those are cool shoes from an older black gate porter at O'Hare one day. Ever since then I've told people that I'm black from the ankles down. Mick Ronson died some years ago, Ian Hunter is 68 years old, I haven't been to the village for a dogs age; and for some reason my feet want to vote for Obama. Hmmmmm
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