Listen, I have this ongoing bet with myself.
That I can take off on my bike on any given GNV Sunday.
And in short order find something that positively begs blogging about.
On this particular Sunday I was on my way to First Mag. Meandering hither and yon. As is my wont.
And I won my bet upon arriving at Bo Diddley Plaza.
“Odd,” I mused. It’s only May and GNV is already celebrating Halloween.
Turns out that the Gainesville Oddities Market is a recent thing at the plaza. And in a handful of other Florida cities as well.
As oddities organizer Matthew Gray told WRUF: “A lot of these people are people that are not accepted in normal first Friday art walks or aren’t accepted in normal farmers markets and stuff. Their stuff is just weird or different or unique and beautiful in its own way. But the regular people look at like, ‘I don’t want that in my market.’”
But clearly the witches and the Goths and the Vandals and all manner of other, um, GNV oddballs, very much want Gray’s “that” in their market.
Because odd is as odd does.
And, no question, GNV does odd.
GNV celebrates odd.
GNV revels in odd.
And, oddly, is soon became difficult to separate the truly odd from the mildly bizarre.
I love this odd town.
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