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Blog Crazy and Current Events
Jun. 2nd, 2007 11:17 amI continue to build up content on my new SquareSpace blog. I officially signed up for it; now I have the goal of earning back the cash I spent for a year's worth of hosting there (about 75 bucks). I've already had almost 80 visitors to the site! Now all I have to do is get people to click on ads. :D
Latest content there is a cheese review, if you're interested. Upcoming sneak preview for The Bon Vivant of Brooklyn: reviews of Casellula, Dressler's brunch, Spuyten Duyvil, and The Levee.
I'm also going to be firm on separation of content between the two - everything film, food, and dining is going on The BVoB. Personal events, recounts of other kinds of outings, news and commentary is all staying here.
Speaking of which... Sylvia and I went to see the new "art of the 60s" exhibit at the Whitney Museum on 75th and Madison. I'd never been to that part of the Upper East Side, and was a bit culture shocked by all the debutantes and other posh folk walking around me. I swear I saw a guy who looked like the Monopoly man walking around in a pinstripe suit using an umbrella as a cane. And I'm sure I wouldn't have been let into most of the stores I passed on Madison Avenue!
Anyway, the exhibit was extremely fascinating, and I highly recommend it. I may even go back just to get better looks at some of the works and take some notes on the artists. Most notable were the plexiglass sanctuary containing a composition of one artist's works on every interior surface; a melange of erotic and surrealistic images remniscient of Escher and Bosch (perhaps what they would have created if they were dropping acid!); the "playground" room which was built in rainbow colored sections and contained all manner of oddly curved surfaces; and the great number of videos and moving image installations. If one were predisposed to taking mind altering substances, and one could get away with doing it in public, this would be the place to do just that. But it is still cool to look at with normal brain chemistry too.
I then met up with Jen and Tim and their friend Jesse for dinner at the Bryant Park Grill, as they were on their way to the Oak Room to see the Puppini Sisters perform their retro 40s jazz vocalism. Very nice to share a meal with them, though I made it there a little later than I wanted to. Jesse is a pretty cool guy who lives over Astoria way (I seem to meet more and more cool people living in Queens). I would have joined them for the show, but it started at 11:30p.m. and cost at least $85.00 ($60 cover and $25 drink minimum) and that was a bit too much of a Manhattan price tag for me. By the way, the food at the BPG was very good, but a bit pricy; I don't think I'll cover it in BVoB just because it's a well known commodity at this point.
Latest content there is a cheese review, if you're interested. Upcoming sneak preview for The Bon Vivant of Brooklyn: reviews of Casellula, Dressler's brunch, Spuyten Duyvil, and The Levee.
I'm also going to be firm on separation of content between the two - everything film, food, and dining is going on The BVoB. Personal events, recounts of other kinds of outings, news and commentary is all staying here.
Speaking of which... Sylvia and I went to see the new "art of the 60s" exhibit at the Whitney Museum on 75th and Madison. I'd never been to that part of the Upper East Side, and was a bit culture shocked by all the debutantes and other posh folk walking around me. I swear I saw a guy who looked like the Monopoly man walking around in a pinstripe suit using an umbrella as a cane. And I'm sure I wouldn't have been let into most of the stores I passed on Madison Avenue!
Anyway, the exhibit was extremely fascinating, and I highly recommend it. I may even go back just to get better looks at some of the works and take some notes on the artists. Most notable were the plexiglass sanctuary containing a composition of one artist's works on every interior surface; a melange of erotic and surrealistic images remniscient of Escher and Bosch (perhaps what they would have created if they were dropping acid!); the "playground" room which was built in rainbow colored sections and contained all manner of oddly curved surfaces; and the great number of videos and moving image installations. If one were predisposed to taking mind altering substances, and one could get away with doing it in public, this would be the place to do just that. But it is still cool to look at with normal brain chemistry too.
I then met up with Jen and Tim and their friend Jesse for dinner at the Bryant Park Grill, as they were on their way to the Oak Room to see the Puppini Sisters perform their retro 40s jazz vocalism. Very nice to share a meal with them, though I made it there a little later than I wanted to. Jesse is a pretty cool guy who lives over Astoria way (I seem to meet more and more cool people living in Queens). I would have joined them for the show, but it started at 11:30p.m. and cost at least $85.00 ($60 cover and $25 drink minimum) and that was a bit too much of a Manhattan price tag for me. By the way, the food at the BPG was very good, but a bit pricy; I don't think I'll cover it in BVoB just because it's a well known commodity at this point.