spring break part 2
sights i saw:
empire state building
friggin huge, ear-poppingly good
EXTREME winds (freezing cold) at the top, but a GREAT view at night. particularly cool as it is green, and seen on st. patty's day! next to some cool shopping, including H&M. booyah. spent some money there, they have awesome shirts that are actually FITTED for God' s sake. by this i mean, Gap, BNR, Express has a size small. this size fits my shoulders and such. but is like a damn tent. it does not come in, in fact they appear to move outward, when in fact my waist is way smaller than my shoulders, not the other way around. H&M fit to the slimmer dude, and make me look even a little hulking in that the shoulders are a teensy but too small.
NYU
which is weird in that it is kind of interspersed within the city of new york. that is, there is a lack of campus identity. went to the tour of the law school where our gay tour guide showed us all around and answered all kinds of weird questions from crazy overachievers (girl in the red sweater, i'm talking about you).
airport
flight over way delayed over 3 hours which lead into SERIOUS housing issues, not to mention not being able to shower for a while. stepped outside, snowing. but the weather the rest of the trip was OK. minus the insane wind in NYC probably wind tunnels from the big buildings, but honestly, who throws a shoe.
restaurants
lindy's - 8 dollar slice of cheesecake, worth every penny.
carnegie deli - unbelievable amount of pastrami in that sandwich. and the bathroom was hilarious. colin went in and noticed that whoever walks in can basically see the person taking a shite becuase there is a large crack (due to the hinging of the door) that makes the crapper very visible to the crapee. then erik goes down, comes up, says the first thing he saw after opening the door was penis. i thought this funny and inspected myself. sure enough. it's like this:
Door = ||, wall = |, urinal = (
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so right when u open the door, there is a man peeing towards you, about a foot away from you. awesome.
tom's diner - place where opening sequence to monk's cafe is shot in seinfeld. water totally burned Rabe. rabe likes to use a lot of ketchup with his eggs. he ordered an omelette, and put a lot of ketchup on it. later the waiter walks by and says, verbatim "hey buddy, u want some omelette with that ketchup" BURRRNNN. colin said that exact burn a few days prior. but it was awesome coming from a waiter who is expecting a tip.
soup nazi - closed. for a few days. fuck him.
jew nazi - went to a place that said ON THE MENU and such not to pronounce humus humus, but rather as hoomoose. and i guess they are strict about it, hence, jew nazi.
magnolia cafe - really good-looking and tasting cupcakes. but holy shit. SOOOO much sugar, diabetic shock, wish i didn't eat them afterwards.
harriet's diner, cafe duke - close to shopping and a good tie shop, where i got 3 ties. purty ones too. salmon, lavender and blue. the fruity colors aren't as fruity as they sound. i swear.
cafe europa - only cafe where they didn't rape us on the price
cafe angelique - best french toast ever. i think on bleecker and... something else. amazing. also, it was near christopher street. which is the gay street. and these two gay dudes were looking at ken and I the whole time. how do i know they were gay? could be because they were playing with dolls on their table.
lombardi's, sal's - good pizza, esp. at lombardis, this guy was infuriated with his offspring. it was hilarious. i got sauce on a new shirt. fuck.
nexus of the universe
at 1st and 1st st.
hella ghetto. only went there for another seinfeld moment.
central park
huge place, it was cool. half the lake was frozen over. no one told me how much the entire park smells of horse shit. of course there were pigeons eating it, too. also saw the "imagine" memorial place where a bum was playing lenin songs.
the met
AWESOME! arms and armory kicked major ass. a good side to the millions of red-figure pots and shit and the mummy cases. of course also euro art of the most famous artists of all time, but DAMN some of the suits of armor kicked ass. such as the BLACK ones from germany. they woulda made the other dudes crap their armors i'm sure.
time square
got some wicked panorama shots Ken took with his camera. prolly gonna have them soon.
city hall
yeah, not a lot to say here...
statue of liberty
cool, and there was a troupe of 4 black brothers putting on a show near the coast... with no fucking shirts on. with wind chill it was 15 degrees.
wall st.
neat-o. saw all the suits, got a picture of me with the bull, looking at it's nuts, since the face of the bull was taken by other tourists.
world trade center
crazy to see the site. lots of neat posters about the history of the towers. also, all the tourist shit in NY still has the two towers in them (globes, shot-glasses, whatever u can think of). kinda interesting.
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arrested development and chapelle show were the shows we saw when at erik's. have newfound respect for arrested development.
"come on"
"burn"
"remember the time when we were freezing our asses off in the street and wished we were back in HB? that sucked."