Walking through Union Square last week I noticed a Gold Man with chains around his neck sleeping on a park bench.

Where had he come from ? An S and M burning man party? A performance art show? A Wizard of Oz reunion? What's with the chains? Was he making a political statement that one should not feel chained to Gold?What went in the gold box, it was empty. Maybe a dig at Wall Street guys? Truthfully I was stumped. I tried to wake him up with a wee nudge but he just kept on snoring away peacefully.

Everyone else in the park seemed totally unfazed by the Sleeping Gold Man. In New York anything goes.