The Naked Cowboy at Times Square.
Maybe it’s the long, frigid winter or the fact that I have been feeling under the weather for awhile, but when I saw today’s Photo Challenge I thought of Dante and the gate of Hell. Specifically the inscription on said gate.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
I looked through my photo files to find something that would fit the theme. This is what jumped out at me. It made me think of an entirely different sign than Dante’s.
Abandoned here: My dignity. Feel free to join me for a buck.
A Wilderness of Words 
Ha! This one cracked me up! What a great shot. Maybe they’re abandoning the restraints of life … 🙂 Well … maybe that’s a stretch 🙂
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Yeah, those girls were having a good time. I was hanging around Times Square with my husband and son, people watching. We’d heard about the “Cowboy” but hadn’t seen him before. Then, all of sudden, I turned around and there he was. I had a telephoto lens, I wasn’t as close to him as it seems in the picture.
Seems like a hard way to make a living. 🙂
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Very brave of him! Lol.
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Brave is one way to look at it. 😉
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I have to protest the lack of truth in advertising here. He is totally wearing a hat. 🙂
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Yes, and he was totally wearing boots, too! Speaking of advertising, he not only made money from people paying to have their pictures taken with him, his guitar (which was string-less) was plastered with advertising from local shops.
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Haha, great choice! I wonder if he’s still out in this cold. That’s the kind of job they give in hell.
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I don’t know how long he stays out there. People do crazy things for money. He sure couldn’t sing!
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What a crock! He isn’t naked! He’s got on more clothes than most people wear at the beach these days! Or more than a lot of Victoria’s Secret models! Can you imagine how our grandparents would feel about today’s freewheeling culture? They were shocked by flappers’ styles in the ’20s! (Should we freeze him in Lake Cocytus, Mary, or stick him in Satan’s mouth? LOL Actually, Dante put the sexual sinners only in the top level of Hell. It was the traitors that he assigned to the depths.)
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It’s interesting that Dante saw gluttony as a bigger sin than sexual sinners. I suspect he had his reasons. A pinprick of guilt perhaps? I wonder what the flappers of the ’20’s would think about the Victoria’s Secret commercials?
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Ha ha I have a photo of my daughter with him from when we visited NY a few years back…apparently he was saying to her ‘Your daddy’s going to love this one’ ^^ (my raised eyebrows)
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No way I was going to have my picture taken with him. I did get a photo of me with the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, though. Priorities. 🙂
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Ha ha – she told me about him before we went and I said ‘no way’; came upon him almost by accident and went for it!
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I’ll give the guy this much. Wearing tighty whities isn’t something I would entertain behind closed doors, much less in Times Square. Boxers….yeah, I could do boxers in Times Square. But no Cowboy hat. That would be silly…..
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I’m with you on the tighty whities . . . there few things that look as skeevy, except maybe the Cowboy hat . . . and the boots . . . and carrying a guitar with no strings.
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Your dignity is still intact!
So he couldn’t sing, huh? I’ve only heard of him … never seen, or heard him!
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I don’t think it mattered whether he could sing or not, his guitar didn’t have strings anyway. If you ever decide to make a trip to NYC, I’ll meet you at Times Square and take your picture with him. 🙂
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The naked cowboy is there in the dead of winter too. I don’t know how he can stand it.
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Wait. He’s out there still dressed in his skivvies? If it’s below 30 outside I dress like Nanook of the North.
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Omg is the naked cowboy still in NYC? You would think by now he would have earned enough money to buy some better briefs! He must be in his 40s by now.
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interesting…. that’s all I got to say, interesting
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