Comments | oyceter: NYC Days 3 and 4

oyceter

NYC Days 3 and 4

Sep 08, 2006 10:33

(pictures behind the cuts!)

I spent all of Monday with my sister, since it was her birthday. We started out with ( pedicures. )

food, trips: new york 2006, picture spam, rats, food: restaurants

Comments 8

habiliments September 8 2006, 18:04:14 UTC

Oh, Pommes Frites. The very thought is making my stomach rumble.

oyceter September 11 2006, 07:11:42 UTC

They are so good!

rachelmanija September 8 2006, 20:26:07 UTC

Aww, ratties!

I know Beard Papa's. I took Sherwood Smith and Alis Rasmussen there before Worldcon. It's one block from Furaibo.

oyceter September 11 2006, 07:12:27 UTC

Don't the ratties look so adventurous? Hee!

Mmmm, I am jealous and want to go back to LA and eat at Furaibo again. And then get cream puffs. Or ramen. Or the myriad wonderful things around that area.

jinian September 9 2006, 04:41:43 UTC

Counters with little holes in them for paper cones! Genius!

oyceter September 11 2006, 07:12:41 UTC

I know! It truly was!

boxmint September 12 2006, 00:12:36 UTC

Marvelous! I had just that day a few weeks ago, escorting an amiable Brit. What really struck me about the Egypt wing this time was its depiction of Egypt as a place for cultural fusion. Did you see the mummy that's just on your left as you go in to the Egypt wing--in the post-Ptolemy section? It's a marvelous example of cultural squash. I mean, first of all, it's a mummy, implying a lot of very non-Greek ideas about the afterlife. But the portrait on the front is straight Greek, right down to the curling hairstyle, and there are Greek letters written on the mummy's foot, next to either an eye of Horus or a falcon or something like that ( ... )

oyceter September 12 2006, 00:54:48 UTC

Yes, I remember those mummies! It was really interesting seeing the mummies with the Greek-ish paintings of the faces.

And that is the exact gown I was describing. I was just sad that we couldn't see the front of it, because it was so lovely.