NYC: shiny, full of cool
New York was awesome, Canada and I shot somewhere over 600 pics as refs for NightSchool and got to spend some time with some really amazing people. I'm back, kinda, haven't exactly unpacked yet because immediately back in town I was killed by The Wall of Work. Which is 
kind of like a wall of water-- the one that sank The Poseidon and drowned Shelly Winters-- but less wet-like and more brick-like as in 'a ton of'. If that makes any sense. Does it? What day is this anyway? :D;;;
So though I wish I had the brain to do a proper travellog with complete sentences and, you know, wit and like, grammar, as it is it's another bulleted list. But with photos this time!
(Look at Manhattan will you? Isn't it beautiful? Like a bruised fairyland all full of dirt and noise and wonder. We spent most of our time in Queens and Brooklyn because those were the locations the book called for but there's nothing like wandering around The City at night, another anonymous black leather-jacketed component in a vast ant farm of civilization squared. I like Boston, like wandering around Boston at night, too but it's no NYC, you know?)
Stayed with Raina and Dave the first 2 nights, so very kind of them to open their home and fold-out couch for us. :D You will never ever find more generous people than comics people, wherever you go. All that and Raina's kickass lentil stew, talk about home cookin' yeah! And do you ever get tired of looking at people's original inks, checking out their studio space and pawing through their artbooks?? No you don't. :D
Coconut rice at some fusion thai place in Astoria, OMG.
Dave gave us a tour of his office at Nickelodeon. This is the view from the conference room, faces pressed against the glass, looking down. Awesome. >>>
Lunch on Agent Judy at a very cool Japanese place, a classy lady who works hard on behalf of the arteests. Very good company, that lunch, and good conversation.
MIdtown comics: thank you for adding an additional 5 pounds to my duffle on the trip home. ^_^;;;
Spooky-cool flea-bag in Queens, we have officially removed "flea-bag" from your name. This hotel, where we stayed our 3 and 4th nights, was a hotel INSIDE another building-- an old school building, actually, and we've got pics of this really random hole that we found in a stairwell that allows you to see through to the original walls of the structure, complete with freaky wallpaper and original rooms and doors and windows, now blocked up on the outside. So, turn-of-the-century schoolhouse... wrapped around a hotel. Across from a graveyard. Well chosen, C. :D
<<< Calvary Cemetery in Queens, woah. Google "Cemetery Belt" sometime and enjoy the bizzarity. This is the view of our hotel from the grounds. You can just make out Manhattan on the horizon.
Calvary: open graves, soil cut to show the casket on top of which the new casket will lie. And the neighbors to the sides as well. Looking out over the cemetery to a busy freeway. Peering through the cracked glass of crypt windows. Walking through this quiet place bracketed by freeways on an overcast day at a moment in time that you'll never see again.
Tiny pastry shop in Brooklyn: coconut macaroons. Geez, I get all drooly just thinking about it.
Prospect park at night. The sound of water somewhere in the dark.
The NY subway system. I love you, unlimited 7 day pass. And you, subway map. You're just so freakin' INFORMATIVE.
Our last night, Captain H and Magic Tania, OMG you guys know how to party. Dinner at Tokyo Bar was fabulous: manga walls and sequins! Karaoke at location 1: awesome, and the place we closed down as well. Stumbling through whereever the hell we were to the cab in midtown through the rain back to the hotel our last night there: won't forget that moment.
Cab ride back to LaGuardia the next day: a panoramic view and my head full of memories.
Good trip. I'll be glad to be back in the city for NYAF in December.
kind of like a wall of water-- the one that sank The Poseidon and drowned Shelly Winters-- but less wet-like and more brick-like as in 'a ton of'. If that makes any sense. Does it? What day is this anyway? :D;;;
So though I wish I had the brain to do a proper travellog with complete sentences and, you know, wit and like, grammar, as it is it's another bulleted list. But with photos this time!
(Look at Manhattan will you? Isn't it beautiful? Like a bruised fairyland all full of dirt and noise and wonder. We spent most of our time in Queens and Brooklyn because those were the locations the book called for but there's nothing like wandering around The City at night, another anonymous black leather-jacketed component in a vast ant farm of civilization squared. I like Boston, like wandering around Boston at night, too but it's no NYC, you know?)
Stayed with Raina and Dave the first 2 nights, so very kind of them to open their home and fold-out couch for us. :D You will never ever find more generous people than comics people, wherever you go. All that and Raina's kickass lentil stew, talk about home cookin' yeah! And do you ever get tired of looking at people's original inks, checking out their studio space and pawing through their artbooks?? No you don't. :D
Coconut rice at some fusion thai place in Astoria, OMG.
Dave gave us a tour of his office at Nickelodeon. This is the view from the conference room, faces pressed against the glass, looking down. Awesome. >>>
Lunch on Agent Judy at a very cool Japanese place, a classy lady who works hard on behalf of the arteests. Very good company, that lunch, and good conversation.
MIdtown comics: thank you for adding an additional 5 pounds to my duffle on the trip home. ^_^;;;
Spooky-cool flea-bag in Queens, we have officially removed "flea-bag" from your name. This hotel, where we stayed our 3 and 4th nights, was a hotel INSIDE another building-- an old school building, actually, and we've got pics of this really random hole that we found in a stairwell that allows you to see through to the original walls of the structure, complete with freaky wallpaper and original rooms and doors and windows, now blocked up on the outside. So, turn-of-the-century schoolhouse... wrapped around a hotel. Across from a graveyard. Well chosen, C. :D
<<< Calvary Cemetery in Queens, woah. Google "Cemetery Belt" sometime and enjoy the bizzarity. This is the view of our hotel from the grounds. You can just make out Manhattan on the horizon.
Calvary: open graves, soil cut to show the casket on top of which the new casket will lie. And the neighbors to the sides as well. Looking out over the cemetery to a busy freeway. Peering through the cracked glass of crypt windows. Walking through this quiet place bracketed by freeways on an overcast day at a moment in time that you'll never see again.
Tiny pastry shop in Brooklyn: coconut macaroons. Geez, I get all drooly just thinking about it.
Prospect park at night. The sound of water somewhere in the dark.
The NY subway system. I love you, unlimited 7 day pass. And you, subway map. You're just so freakin' INFORMATIVE.
Our last night, Captain H and Magic Tania, OMG you guys know how to party. Dinner at Tokyo Bar was fabulous: manga walls and sequins! Karaoke at location 1: awesome, and the place we closed down as well. Stumbling through whereever the hell we were to the cab in midtown through the rain back to the hotel our last night there: won't forget that moment.
Cab ride back to LaGuardia the next day: a panoramic view and my head full of memories.
Good trip. I'll be glad to be back in the city for NYAF in December.