Bagels, Pizza, Hot Dogs and Race Tracks - New York City?

dlowan - yes, but what other thread?

"The Line" thread.

Have a safe trip Kicky.

Thanks, but the trip is now on hold. Ha! I just couldn't leave without one last push for a job here. It was too depressing. So I will be looking for a sublet now, and pumping out resumes and just going nuts for at least the next month, to see if I can maybe get lucky and stay in NYC for good.

Yay!!!

Wow, that's some big news, kicky. Good luck to you!

Surely someone of the a2kers had a camera at Lola & Blatham's? Tell, tell...

I'm surprised, and very happy for you. Wow, kewl The best of luck to you Yay

Thank goddess!

I was keeping away from your leaving NY threads cos I thought you were ferking NUTS to be doing it!

I was so happy when Beth said you were off cancelling trucks.


Good luck!

That's so great!

Everything crossed for ya.

This seems kind of like the coin test -- ya know, when you flip a coin and when you go "YAY!" for one result and "Oh DAMN!!!" for another, that visceral reaction tells you something that a ton of intellectual pondering can't.

(Meanwhile, details are still LACKING, folks! More on the phone call, at least!)

I am a detail blank. What about cancelling trucks..(yayyyy!!!!)

I'm not sure I don't want you to leave NYC ever, kicky, though I'm all for staying for fifteen more years. But I guess I was surprised with the pace, and it ain't none of my beeswax as some person who had no couth or sense of word sequence once said, to have said that to you.

You may still decide to leave in less than 15. But, damn, you have a great place to be and tickets to work there.
Also, start with the writing, or performing. I can see you doing what my now x has promoted in his role as cultural arts manager, cough. OK, many years ago he started going out to see performance art - kind of thing where someone told a tale, sang a song, moved the room on their own terms. Sandra Tsing Loh was one of the people he booked..
when he got to arrange performances at a city center. He books various groups for noon concerts, and sets up a lot of staging of a range of things... Lenward Kapuuana, for example. I can see you doing something like that.

You mean apart from that I was wearing a towel and hair conditioner?

Well, I spoke to Lola, who was stunned, apparently that I sounded Australian.....heeheeheeheheehee......

Which is odd, cos she sounds not so very American to me.


Then to Beth, and I can't repeat what we talked about, partly cos I forget, and partly cos I think we were naughty.

Then Blatham, who sounded a whole different Canadian from Beth, except I think he said aboot.


I believe we talked about the eternal verities and I was rude about canada.

I blame Craven for that, the rudeness about Canada, I mean.

And for much else, but I digress.


I think he's behind global warming, for instance.

That is the most sensible post I've seen from you in a while, Kicky.
Fight the good fight.

I'm sorry we couldn't make it to the Frying Pan on Thursday, it sounded like a good time.

ehBeth (and E), Noddy, and me and the Mrs. had a grand time on Friday.
We started at Artie's for knishes, french fries, potato pancakes, and mushroom barley soup. We were scolded for mispronouncing the word "knish" repeatedly. (It's Kah-nish, not nish.)
Afterwards, we scrambled over to the Guggenheim for the "Russia!" exhibit.
I believe I will wait for the ladies, to help me with the narrative of that adventure, but a great deal of fun was had by all.

Kicky - good job! I was holding back, like Osso, because I was thinking - why the F are you leaving?!?!?!

I want to hear details of that phone conversation from the other participants!

Details trickling out from dlowan and LTX, now we're talkin'...

Was the kah-nish guy (my grandma was from New Yawk, I know these things) anything like Seinfeld's Soup Nazi? (While I've never been there, I love that about New York, that they go ahead and scold and tell you how to say it instead of, like, arching an eyebrow at a co-worker and saying nothing.)

Geez, I have read to myself, nish, and, oh, from another thread, I've always thought of conch as conshe... not conk.

We all have our regions of doh...

... exsqueeze me??

i'm gonna start calling littlek "littlek-nish"...

Straighten some of us out, okay, go ahead... I'm waiting...

hmmm, are knishes slightly k'NISHES in LA? Trying to remember...

NYC was delightful--stayed an extra day to visit with some old friends from the '60's. Came home to a bit of chaos, but order is emerging.

More, later.

Hey! I also spoke to Noddy!!!!


But not for long.....either I bored her, or she is such a polite person that she passed me quickly over to Beth!


I spoke to Noddy!

...and I spoke to Deb and was most impressed with the vitality and enthusiasm of her voice.

Remember, I'm of a generation that thinks long distance phone calls--let alone transcontinental phone calls--are Very Costly and hence should be Very Brief.

Besides, there was room full of people clamouring to chat with the Wicked Wabbit.

Sunday morning is a nice cheap time for international calls.

Now I know how Noddy sounds!!!!!!

Just like I thought she would...