Your Time Will Come

I've really got to toughen up, as my day is so easily ruined by very silly things.

I passed by the mannequin at left yesterday morning (click on it to enlarge), spotted in the window of an Urban Outfitters on Fifth Avenue in midtown. You may glance at it and say, "Alex, what's the big deal?," but those with a keen eye for detail will notice that "she" is wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt (specifically one emblazoned with the cover art to the band's 2000 album, Brave New World, which heralded the return of vocalist Bruce Dickinson after a painful, two-album absence), while the rest of her ensemble looks like something Winona Ryder might have sported in "Reality Bites."

Yes, I'm a very ridiculous person with myriad hang-ups about entirely trivial matters, but know this....if I see you sporting this shirt, shoppers ... you'd best be prepared to get grilled on the finer points of Iron Maiden's exhaustive oeuvre.