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Lloyd Dobler Mob Takes NYC
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Jen Carlson
Published Nov 4, 2009
Modified Nov 4, 2009
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For the love of everything that is good and pure in this world, the next time there are multiple Lloyd Doblers around town, please alert us! Yesterday there were not 1, not 2, but approximately a zillion trench-coat wearing, boom-box-over-head-holding Lloyd Doblers right in this very city. Did you see them? USA Today reports that the self-dubbed "Mobler" hit up Penn Station, NYU, Union Square and landed in Times Square to meet up with a band called the Lloyd Dobler Effect, who sang "In Your Eyes."
This was for the 20th Anniversary release of Say Anything on Blu-Ray, even though Dobler himself famously declared that, "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career." Whatever, we would like to see this happen every day (more videos here):
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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