"[T]he man walked into Eskimix and ordered a blueberry, raspberry and banana smoothie. 'I kept thinking about how he looked like the author William S. Burroughs,' the employee, Andrew Smith, 22, said.
Then the customer pulled out a handgun, pointed it at Mr. Smith and calmly told him to empty the cash register....
The most recent robbery occurred Friday night, when the same man ducked inside Rainbows and Triangles, a gift store on Eighth Avenue that caters to gay men. He pulled out his gun and demanded money. The clerk said there was none in the register, and the man left."
-It's a quiet time in the West Village, finds A.G. Sulzberger, as the William Burroughs look-a-like robber is passively floating from store to store, never becoming irate when local businesses have no money at all, ordering yogurt drinks (just like he did in Morocco!), then just drifting off....
The real news here is that "Rainbows and Triangles" was considered an acceptable name for a store.
Eskimix.
It took me, like, three reads to parse "Eskimix" in the article, so I'm glad I'm not alone.
He sure doesn't look like Burroughs in that 13 year old photo they've got.
Creepier: "...the man had visited a nearby sex shop on Seventh Avenue, telling an employee behind the counter that he was looking for something for his wife."
HE WAS SHOPPING FOR JOAN VOLLMER.
Call me when there is a fake Bukowski money launderer.
I vote for a full-scale remake of Point Break with underground-writer masks instead of ex-presidents.
TOO SOON.
YAY!! I always pull for geriatric robbers who look like drug-addled homosexual beat writers!!