July 22nd, 2010
The Walking Man Walks
Cue James Taylor,
Moving in silent desperation
Keeping an eye on the holy land
A hypothetical destination
Say, who is this walking man?A local enigma passed last night. Marc Abrams who was simply known as ‘The Walking Man’ was found dead in a hot tub at the age of 58. I lived in Silverlake for two + years when I was coming back to LA after stints in San Francisco and New York and at first you see this guy walking in the noon day sun with his shirt off reading the paper, and you think, “Who is that guy?’ And then you see him and you realize he’s doing this every day, walking around the reservoir in the noonday sun each and every day and you have some silent admiration for his commitment, even if it seems possibly slightly unhinged.
Then you might meet him, or his lovely wife, and you discover that this man walking the streets in his small shorts with his shirt off is a family doctor. And you still have the same feelings about this man who walks on by, but you begin to sense there is an unspoken complexity to this man. You smile when a muralist cements his reputation with an homage…
And then you hear the guy on NPR start, “You may have seen him walking the streets of Silverlake…” And your heart sinks and you know what’s coming next.
I hope they are serving you some Johnnie Walker right now Walking Man.
Keep walking.
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