Wednesday, March 28, 2007
I called a friend tonight at her engagement party.Friend: Guess who's here?
Me: Who?
Friend: Charlie Buttons!
Me: Charlie? That's awesome!
Friend: You wanna talk to him?
Me: Yeah!
So Charlie gets on the phone and I talked to him for about 5 minutes. He told me all about his physical therapy, sang a few of his trademark songs, did his schtick. It was such an honor to talk to him!
Charlie is a Crown Heights character - a fixture at simchas. He comes with balloons and makes balloon thingies for everybody. He always wears his trademark denim overalls, covered in buttons.
I personally sought him out and hand-delivered my wedding invitation to him, not that he needed it. Charlie finds his way to every simcha - brissim, l'chaims, shalom zochors. You name it, Charlie's at it.
Many think he's a lamed-vovnik. You never know...
Love, Maven @ 
2 Comments:
At 2:08 AM,
F said…
Hi there,
I just wanted to say, reading your blog (sometimes I read the really old archives, makes me feel much calmer about who I am. You are so honest about insecurites, etc... I tend to feel insecure, but usually people don't notice it, because I act sure of myself--and I am going through a hard time. And I just wanted to say, thanks!
This is our first time celebrating Passover, and I am nervous.
In any case, Happy Pesach to you and yours!
At 10:08 AM,
Maven said…
happy pesach to you! good luck!
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