As pointed out in the November 11 We Saw You column, the new thing to do in public is to blast music in your smartphone with a UE Megaboom speaker. This technology is not only driving home stereo systems to extinction but also liberating the sound-power of such systems from living rooms. You can now carry your loud beats all over the city.

This afternoon, a young man in the back of a Route 8 bus played 2 Chainz's 2012 hit "I luv Dem Strippers" on his boom speaker. The video for this track, which features Nicki Minaj, and which gave the young man a pleasure whose intensity was almost sexual (he particularly relished the line: "All my bitches different, all my diamonds glistening"), can be seen here. In the video, 2 Chainz is indeed in a strip club and loving it. The young man also played "Put On" by Young Jeezy.

This kind of behavior is still novel enough to be bearable.