I just returned from the post office with the mail that built up (in four days? i know!) while we were gone, and there were 3 netfilx dvds in there… A few seconds after I did the following, I realized how 21st century I have become. So: stack of netflix envelopes right there in front of me, but (in what seemed to be an instinctual move) I accessed information on a server hundreds of miles away to determine their contents rather than opening them myself. Heh.
The aforementioned trip to NYC was supergreat. Pictures @ flickr; executive summary below:
Highlights:
- Seeing a huge crew of fools: Dan, Smooth Dan, Chris, Tess, Bartow, Ryan (!), Kevin, Daniel, Carrie, Jon, Tally, Alex, Nora, Hanney.
- Rocking the tourist style w/ Ryan on the Empire State Building
- Eating at favorite joints: Grimaldi’s, Go, Cucina de Pesce, Chip Shop
- Good meals at places new to us: Loreley, Press 195, Gravy, Pink Pony
- Inside look at the casket factory near Dan’s place on Union Street
- Spending more time in the Lower East Side than ever before
- Kevin playing at Tonic w/ a full band
- Walking from Dan’s to Tally & Alex’s
- The weather
- Seeing an apparently-F’d-up Sam Rockwell eating a slice of pizza on Ave A
- Late night patties
Lowlights:
- Missing all the out of town friends: Rachel, Real Bobby, Jennifer
- Missing other folks that were around: Chris, Daniel, Katherine & Erich, Chris infobong
- International Bar seems to be closed
- Spending more time in the Lower East Side than ever before
- Unsuccessfully trying to sleep during Broken Flowers @ BAM
- Never finding any cold Manhattan Special for sale
- Actually seeing some Real World Austin episodes
- ATM fees
Ok, back to work.
We got to spend the day before Greg and Molly’s wedding with 
Mmmm. Biscuitville.
I didn’t try a bowl, but the cross-section looked delicious.
This was our hotel in the T-to. Some girls we were talking to at the Spoon/Clientele show on Sunday night laughed at us for staying there, but it was being renovated, and we got the room for $69. They also made fun of us for drinking Molson Canadian at the show (which was also the cheapest). Apparently, Labatt’s 50 is more of a beer for watching indie rock shows, and MC is just for hockey. Hmm. Good to know. 
View from the room (23rd floor!)
More view from the room
City Hall was next door
One-way signs in Canada don’t say one-way, which was a little disorienting.
This was a sound effects machine for CBC radio in the 80s, there were several drawers like this on the unit, and a wordless control panel on it on top
They had several displays where you could just punch a button with a picture of a show or the name of a historical event and excerpts would play on a little TV. They started out all lit up, and then each button would dim as that clip played. 
We ate at a great pan-Asian place on Queen St. West called EAST!, which is situated right next to the best piece of graffiti I saw on the entire trip.
