Sep 13, 2009 02:32
I found this other story on Life cafe's website. I have visited the place once or twice myself and though I am nothing like the character in this fiction that they mentioned or should I say customer I thought I'd put it up for review. I think it's under life stories or something. I used to like some of the more american style mexican dishes they served. ( I didn't find this to be my favorite restaurant, though, I preferred thai and chinese - this is probably where i was murdered - bleck for lack of better thought, the margaritas are not potent enough but the conspiracy was). I have wondered about what this pile of sister flopping crop is...hmmm.....weird. I also saw that um...sharp margulis...a lawyer type, right, sort of um..in a tv show coming out? Is this a P.R. skit, maybe? It's the reverse to jenny, jenny, who can I turn to......har har hardy har har...did that make sense or were you "all mad here?"
this has to be jennifer's body...like how...black dahlia for tv! ha yeah, you know what i mean.
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Remembering...
On her first day in New York City, now living with her father and sister in the Village, a thirteen-year-old girl sullenly refuses to leave her apartment. Her name is Michelle, and glad as she is to be no longer living in suburbian New Jersey, she has not yet quite adjusted to the city. In fact, she has not quite adjusted to living with her father and sister, both of whom have been living in the city for ten years, and Michelle she does not know very much about them. It is for that very reason that she shoots her family members uncomfortable glances regularly and turns down opportunities to leave the apartment.
Sightseeing does not appeal to Michelle, but she supposes that if she should want to see anything in particular, craning her neck out the window is a possibility, and if she cannot find much of an interesting view, Internet photographs would not go amiss. Though the view from her apartment is nothing to write home about, Michelle confesses that she is fascinated by the shadows of buildings taller than the three-story building she had inhabited back in New Jersey, and spends much of her time gazing out of the window, watching cars pass.
Several weeks of this aimless sightseeing pass by, and soon enough, Michelle's sister enters the apartment one day and demands that they go out, to see the city. Michelle tries to argue that she has seen much of the city already, but Jennifer will hear none of it, and so out they go, down the street and then another, until at last they together come to a stop by a small establishment called the Life Cafe.
After settling down in a small booth in the garden area, Jennifer dryly comments that the cafe in which they have just ordered their paninis is in fact mentioned in RENT, a musical that both sisters have been wanting to see for a long time. That comment is what breaks the ice, and Michelle shrugs off her begrudging nature and lightens up.
Over the years, Jennifer and Michelle continue to attend the cafe regularly, having lovely conversations alongside wonderful food. Birthday dinners are celebrated at the Life Cafe for Michelle in particular, and while Jennifer sways from favorite to favorite, Michelle has never once, in all her years of living in the city, "abandoned" her number-one favorite eatery, the Life Cafe. Of course, she bears it in mind at all times that the Life Cafe was her very first New York City experience, and no matter how much she grows and changes, those memories remain with her.
Sharp Margulis, Christopher St., NYC