Archive for 2007:
So Joe, I, and our man-child, Ryan, spent a few hours at HOWL today, held at Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. If it weren’t for the humidity, we would have spent the whole day traipsing around the Lower East Side. By 3:30pm though, we scurried home to our wonderfully cool and dry air conditioned apartment.
But back to the great day we had. We drove in to the city (subways would have been murder) and got a parking spot right along the northern edge of the park on 10th Street between Avenues A and B. Of course Life Cafe is right there, an old haunt of mine from when I lived in SoHo in the 80′s, so we stopped there first for brunch. Then we walked all around the park for the Art Around the Park portion of the festival. Basically the entire outside of the park is covered in paper, then artists of all sorts register to paint and get a segment of it to work with. Read more »
Joe and I spent the day Saturday in the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods in Brooklyn daytripping. Hit a bunch of local stores like Permanent Records and chowed down at Dumont‘s outside garden where we noticed that we were being stared at and then realized we were the only ones there with gray hair, oy. Visited McCarren Park and Grand Ferry Park and then ended up at the Greenpoint Coffeehouse for a final triple latte before we headed home. I absolutely love days like Saturday. Relatively close to home, but not home, and a beautiful day with lots of interesting sights to see, and ample time to relax and take it all in. Quality husbear time too. CARLOS
Ran across some Life is crap t-shirts at a gift shop while traipsing (a euphemism for tramping in my book) up and down Washington Street in Hoboken. Some of the designs in their gallery I’d wear. Of course the store only carried up to an XL, so I’m buying my XXL’s online from them direct. CARLOS
OMG! LOOK AT THE SIZE OF MY NECK!!! Joe (left) and I (right) being silly at a recent trip to the Liberty Science Center CARLOS
It’s time again for Jersey City Pride this Saturday, August 25th, 2007, from noon-8pm @ Exchange Place in Downtown JC. It’s right on the waterfront facing lower Manhattan, a cinch to get to by PATH train or by car. CARLOS
