In NYC for the day yesterday...
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I was in NYC yesterday with my family to watch the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. We went up and back in a coach with 50 other people going to see the show. By the end of the ride up, I wanted to kill the two women several rows back who had no concept of indoor speaking voice and were managing to talk over my iPod. Fortunately, they shut up during the (bad) Whoopi Goldberg movie on the way back, but as soon as the movie was over, they were back to chatting louder than everyone else on the bus combined.
Before the show, we went down to the WTC site. That massive fence they put up pretty well blocks any kind of a good view of anything, though I suppose that if it wasn't there, people would just get themselves into trouble climbing down into the hole. There wasn't really anything there to see, though, I can't say I'm surprised by that. It would probably have been a bit more impressive had I actually seen the WTC up-close when I was in NYC in the summer of 1999.
The show itself was pretty good, and broken up into two parts. The first part was 75 minutes of excellent dance choreography, although none of the traditional holiday music they played was accompanied with lyrics. (Stupid copyright issues, no doubt.) The second part, following a really jarring transition, was a 15 minute "interpretation" of the nativity, with camels and sheep. It was so different, it was pretty much like someone picked up a remote control and changed the channel.
I had no idea T-Shirts were so cheap. I saw two places selling NYC T-Shirts for $2 each (cheaper, in quantities of 5 ore more). This contrasts with the rack ugly orange $1049 blouses I saw at Sachs, right next to the rack of ugly grey $525 blouses. Seriously, who buys that stuff? (Although they did have a really nice $23,000 turquoise with embedded diamonds in the shape of a dragon.)
Although I didn't see anything quite as interesting as the burning tourbus I saw in '99, I did see a taxi hit a truck while trying (unsuccessfully) to cut in front, succeeding in screwing up traffic for about 20 minutes while they tried to get themselves separated.
I was in NYC yesterday with my family to watch the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. We went up and back in a coach with 50 other people going to see the show. By the end of the ride up, I wanted to kill the two women several rows back who had no concept of indoor speaking voice and were managing to talk over my iPod. Fortunately, they shut up during the (bad) Whoopi Goldberg movie on the way back, but as soon as the movie was over, they were back to chatting louder than everyone else on the bus combined.
Before the show, we went down to the WTC site. That massive fence they put up pretty well blocks any kind of a good view of anything, though I suppose that if it wasn't there, people would just get themselves into trouble climbing down into the hole. There wasn't really anything there to see, though, I can't say I'm surprised by that. It would probably have been a bit more impressive had I actually seen the WTC up-close when I was in NYC in the summer of 1999.
The show itself was pretty good, and broken up into two parts. The first part was 75 minutes of excellent dance choreography, although none of the traditional holiday music they played was accompanied with lyrics. (Stupid copyright issues, no doubt.) The second part, following a really jarring transition, was a 15 minute "interpretation" of the nativity, with camels and sheep. It was so different, it was pretty much like someone picked up a remote control and changed the channel.
I had no idea T-Shirts were so cheap. I saw two places selling NYC T-Shirts for $2 each (cheaper, in quantities of 5 ore more). This contrasts with the rack ugly orange $1049 blouses I saw at Sachs, right next to the rack of ugly grey $525 blouses. Seriously, who buys that stuff? (Although they did have a really nice $23,000 turquoise with embedded diamonds in the shape of a dragon.)
Although I didn't see anything quite as interesting as the burning tourbus I saw in '99, I did see a taxi hit a truck while trying (unsuccessfully) to cut in front, succeeding in screwing up traffic for about 20 minutes while they tried to get themselves separated.