Re: [FairfieldLife] Still crazy -- and alive -- after all these years?

[Share Long]

Some people like Andy K are human zazen sticks, ever ready to whack the 
unconscious ones into consciousness! One such clueless victim was on MIU staff 
and working in a VIP dining room during a special event weekend. Andy came very 
late to dinner and all the food, etc. had been cleared away. Clueless One asked 
Andy if he wanted some food. He said just a bowl of vanilla ice cream would be 
great. Clueless One fetched it and then asked if Andy wanted company while he 
ate. Ah, the folly of youth! Anyway, Andy said yes and they proceeded to chat 
while he ate his ice cream dinner. Then he announced that he had to go meet his 
wife! Whack! 





On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:44 AM, TurquoiseB  wrote:
 
  
Andy Kaufman, that is. 

http://defamer.gawker.com/is-andy-kaufman-still-alive-1463790778 

This sounds like *exactly* the kind of stunt Andy would have dreamed up, and 
arranged to have played out by accomplices before his death. If he ever died. 

He was, after all, one weird dude, into fucking with people's minds as 
"performance art." 

I remember one day at the TM center at 1015 Gayley. Andy had been hanging 
around much of the day, helping around the center. At one point, an 
unsuspecting meditator (the victim) came up to him and said, "Andy, do you know 
that the price tag for your pants is still attached to them, and hanging out in 
back?"

Andy pretended to be surprised, feeling around behind his back, discovering the 
offending tag, and ripping it off. Then he proceeded to melt down. 

First he got visibly upset, saying things like "Oh my god! Have I really been 
walking around like this all day? How embarrassing." Then he got more and more 
embarrassed, and more and more upset, and finally started weeping and crying, 
laying on the ground and beating his hands and fists in a perfect impression of 
a child having a tantrum.

All this time, the poor victim was feeling worse and worse and worse, and 
starting to wish he'd never been born, let alone mentioned the tag. He ran off, 
close to tears himself. 

At which point Andy stood up and admitted it had all been a gag, and that he'd 
been waiting for someone to mention the tag all day. 

Suffice it to say his idea of "funny" was not the same as everyone else's. 

[FairfieldLife] Still crazy -- and alive -- after all these years?

[TurquoiseB]

Andy Kaufman, that is.

http://defamer.gawker.com/is-andy-kaufman-still-alive-1463790778


This sounds like *exactly* the kind of stunt Andy would have dreamed up,
and arranged to have played out by accomplices before his death. If he
ever died.

He was, after all, one weird dude, into fucking with people's minds as
"performance art."

I remember one day at the TM center at 1015 Gayley. Andy had been
hanging around much of the day, helping around the center. At one point,
an unsuspecting meditator (the victim) came up to him and said, "Andy,
do you know that the price tag for your pants is still attached to them,
and hanging out in back?"

Andy pretended to be surprised, feeling around behind his back,
discovering the offending tag, and ripping it off. Then he proceeded to
melt down.

First he got visibly upset, saying things like "Oh my god! Have I really
been walking around like this all day? How embarrassing." Then he got
more and more embarrassed, and more and more upset, and finally started
weeping and crying, laying on the ground and beating his hands and fists
in a perfect impression of a child having a tantrum.

All this time, the poor victim was feeling worse and worse and worse,
and starting to wish he'd never been born, let alone mentioned the tag.
He ran off, close to tears himself.

At which point Andy stood up and admitted it had all been a gag, and
that he'd been waiting for someone to mention the tag all day.

Suffice it to say his idea of "funny" was not the same as everyone
else's.