small bites of the big apple
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Back from TARcon, where the drinks were strong, the racers were pretty, and the Phil was a'drinkin Guinness with aplomb. I swallowed my residual shyness and got an assload of racers to sign my Amazing Tubey messenger bag (a photo will follow at some point) and chatted with quite a few of them, although things were pretty damn loud. The bar we were at, Stitch, was very fun, and I have to say that the waitstaff were exceedingly friendly. (Did I mention the strong drinks? Yesss.) Stitch is in the Garment District, prompting a bunch of people to go to Mood Fabrics to do a pre-party Project Runway thingy. I did not go, but it's a fun idea, yes?
Pre-Tarcon,
shaoliang and I wandered Chinatown a bit after the TARflies lunch. This was entirely accidental on our parts - we were just trying to get a taxi, and had no idea that it was apparently shift change, and all the taxis were trying to go *away* from the direction of Madison Square Garden, which is where we were headed. A succession of taxis would pull up to us, hear where we were going, and then zoom away, leaving us crying in the dust. On the other hand, I did like seeing Chinatown, and it's a good example of how neutered the Washington, DC Chinatown is now. When you come up out of the Metro stop to the DC Chinatown, you're face to face with a Benatton. That's how lame we are, although the restaurants are indeed very good. NYC's Chinatown actually has real fishmongers and people selling unidentifiable dried things in baskets.
On Thursday,
shaoliang,
natalieann, and I went to the Met. We wandered amidst the mummy cases, the European masters, and one of the big exhibits up now in their period rooms, Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion was loads of fun. If you're a costume geek, or somebody who loves grand weirdness, you should go see it. It has almost zero educational value, by the way, but it has dresses by Worth and men wearing mohawks made of Barbie legs and a raven-woman in a gorgeous black dress and wacked out coolness beyond belief.
After the Met, we went to lunch at the TickTock Diner, and then off to the Lush store (which we literally found by snifing it out). I bought some soap and a shampoo bar (my last experience with Lush involved an ocean-type bath bomb that scared me because it was full of seaweed that oozed out all over the tub) and hope to try them out tonight. Lush is a lot of fun to visit with a bunch of people, because then you can poke and prod things and chatter merrily about things that smell good and things that smell bad (uh, apparently
natalieann has a specific objection to how Red Rooster soap smells). I do love seeing big wodges of soap cut up like cheese, also.
I arrived home to some very bad news, which I'm not quite ready to talk about just yet. But on the whole, my two days in NYC were full of fun and frolic, and I'm very glad I did go. It's all thanks to
shaoliang and
natalieann, who are very cool chicas and fun to storm a city with.
Pre-Tarcon,
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After the Met, we went to lunch at the TickTock Diner, and then off to the Lush store (which we literally found by snifing it out). I bought some soap and a shampoo bar (my last experience with Lush involved an ocean-type bath bomb that scared me because it was full of seaweed that oozed out all over the tub) and hope to try them out tonight. Lush is a lot of fun to visit with a bunch of people, because then you can poke and prod things and chatter merrily about things that smell good and things that smell bad (uh, apparently
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I arrived home to some very bad news, which I'm not quite ready to talk about just yet. But on the whole, my two days in NYC were full of fun and frolic, and I'm very glad I did go. It's all thanks to
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Date: 2006-05-19 06:54 pm (UTC)