Life and Island Times July 25 2016 – Key Weird Update

This one is from the spring of 2014.

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Some refer to this island as Key Weird. Hunter S Thompson’s take was more direct – When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Doctor Seuss wrote “we’re all a little weird and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness…”

It seems that once islanders embrace their weirdness, they become confident in it and ensure that everyone knows it. Here are two photos taken at the local cemetery that make this point:

Key West thinks nothing is amiss with a guy who routinely bikes around town wearing nothing but a G-string and a homemade stovepipe hat. Last year islanders were entertained by the legal dispute over a cache of valuable emeralds that one treasure hunter testified he found in the Gulf of Mexico by following a map he bought for $500 from a guy in a bar. His emeralds were later proved forensically to be without value and his claims an elaborate deception to defraud potential investors.

Old salts feel that Key West’s weirdness these days is forced. Eccentricity feels more like a tourist attraction than an expression of an internal need. Hell, Key Weird has an official Twitter site – https://twitter.com/KeyWeird

Witness this menu posted on the porch of the Adult Entertainment Club on upper Duval Street:

Some are pushing back, as witnessed by this photo of a sign taken at bar on Geiger Key way out in the mangroves:

Come on down and see who wins.

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