Rembrandt van Rite Aid

April 17th, 2008

I haven’t made an entry into the bat-shit-crazy category for a while. But when I walked into the Rite Aid before work earlier this week, I encountered something out of the ordinary. I wanted to grab a meal-in-a-bar product and passed a guy sitting in a folding chair. I quickly realized that he wasn’t interested in purchasing said chair — he was drawing. Rite Aid is a drug store … and he certainly wasn’t drawing the beef jerky and Gatorade that were right in front of him. So now you can understand why I was pretty shocked that a creepy looking guy had posted up in the middle of a store at 9AM.

Luckily, I was able to snap a I’m-just-casually-looking-at-my-phone picture of him on my way back towards the front of the store. I was a little bit afraid that he might notice me taking the picture and try to kill me… but I knew that it would make for great blog filler. While cropping/tagging the picture, I decided it would be interesting to try and see what he was drawing. There’s a 300% zoomed and rotated copy of his notepad in the lower left. No, that is not a person drawing the same thing that he is while standing behind him. I’m pretty positive it’s a city over some body of water … so half of it is a reflection. I went into Rite Aid this morning and did not see the scribbling genius at work. I did see the chair though…

Rembrandt van Rite Aid only works in the shade… BOO YAH