I want to spend an afternoon on the sunny sidewalks of the Santa Monica Pier playing my guitar with a top-hat laying in front of me, where strangers have the opportunity to spare me some of their change. If anything, I would do it simply out of curiosity. I always wondered how much money those people made in a day. It couldn’t be that much, but they don’t do it for the cash. I can see why they do it.

Chalk up another item on the summer to-do-list.

But you know what, if there was something that kept me from doing this, it would be those people things who act like robots. Intimidating? Yeah.

- J Diaz