On the Road: The West Village
Jul262007
That screaming you’ve been hearing is me in New York trying to find an internet connection. But it’s gorgeous here, really the prettiest I’ve ever seen the West Village, and the weather is perfect or at least it was today. I got in yesterday, had dinner with Meg at The Spotted Pig where we had wonderful food and better conversation, then came back to the apartment to chat with the landord who told me that Kate and Leo had had tumultous sex in the upstairs parlor as part of shooting their next movie. Since Timothy Hutton had been an architect in the kitchen, the downstairs apartment really can’t compete with the upstairs, but it’s still a wonderful place to stay. Except for the internet which keeps getting screwed up by the turnbuckles that were installed to keep the stairs from pulling away from the wall which created a Faraday box which also screws up the cellphone reception.
I don’t care. This is my favorite place to stay in New York, not to mention the best place to collaborate on books.
Then today Lani and Krissie came in. We were supposed to get started right away working on D&G, but instead we sat and gossiped about the industry and traded opinions and caught up with what was happening in general. And Lani gave Krissie magic socks which she’d knitted. Then we played Mac Addict for awhile–it’s so much fun to show somebody Spotlight and watch them gaze in wild surmise as they see the New World opening up for them–and went to dinner where Krissie didn’t listen as the very nice waitress described the seafood plate and became disconcerted when she ended up with squid and little octopi. She kept holding up tiny little tentacles and saying, “What is this?” Exactly what it looks like, Krissie. Do you mind? I’m eating here.
And then we came back and Krissie said, “So. Mesopotamia,” and we worked on the book which is ostensibly why we’re all here, but the truth is, we just want a good time in New York with good friends.
Tomorrow: We get thrown out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for laughing too hard in the Mesopotamian exhibit.
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15 Comments to 'On the Road: The West Village'
On July 26, 2007 at 1:06 am Ray-Anne said...
You do realise young lady that the solitary writers in their lonely rooms staring at the white wall/screen while twirling a thick crayon, are even more depressed having read that post. Is it possible to have cool lifestyle envy? City angst? Spotted Pig craving?
Shame on you for having such a great time doing what you love! It is positively indecent.
Have a wonderful break – feed the muse. Goddess. Whatever. And please keep posting from where you can. We need the fix. Ray-Anne
http://mischiefandfilth.blogspot.com/
On July 26, 2007 at 7:05 am Angela said...
The MET is all well and good, but do they have a bunny-shaped vessel from 6400 BC? Because the MFA in Boston does:
http://mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=155968&coll_keywords=hare+vessel&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1
On July 26, 2007 at 10:16 am Wendy Roberts said...
Sounds like the perfect environment to create. Enjoy!
On July 26, 2007 at 10:20 am Pam said...
What Ray-Anne said. Times a billion.
On July 26, 2007 at 10:24 am AgTigress said...
Don’t know about Neolithic plaster bunnies, but the Met. does have a nice pre-dynastic Egyptian bowl with feet that might interest Jenny:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=10&viewmode=0&item=10.176.113
On July 26, 2007 at 10:46 am McB said...
I have no idea what turnbuckles and faradays are, but it sounds like you are dealing well with them.
Hi, Tigress!
On July 26, 2007 at 1:58 pm Diane (TT) said...
Yes, but the bowl doesn’t have on open-toed shoes! Who knew that Walking Ware had such a pedigree (what, do you suppose, is the derivation of “pedigree”? should I apologize for inadvertent wordplay?)Michael Faraday made some important discoveries regarding electricity and magnetism, he has units named after him (really, one of the world’s biggest distinctions, unless the unit happens to be a Smoot. In which case, it is just under 6 feet.). So, presumably a Faraday box disrupts electronic signals somehow, though I am ignorant of either how, or what a turnbuckle is. I could look that up, along with 2 or 3 other things in this comment, but will not do so.
On July 26, 2007 at 2:11 pm AgTigress said...
The Met. used to make a replica of that charming little footed bowl for sale – I don’t know if it is still available. I have always assumed that the designer of the 1970s ‘Walking Ware’ ceramics was aware of the ancient vessels with human feet, and had been inspired by them, though I suppose he might have come by the idea independently.
A turnbuckle is a double-ended screw thingy that enables one to increase or reduce the tension on cables.
On July 26, 2007 at 2:38 pm Mailyn said...
I LOVE NYC! I can’t wait to be back there,hopefully before the end of the year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the few museums my friend and I want to visit. I think we’ll get thrown out as well so do let us know what ya’ll got away with. LOL> ^__&
On July 26, 2007 at 6:30 pm DownUnderGal said...
Wow – the things you learn about electricity and screw thingy’s on this blog.
The West Village sounds divine and it’s always perfect to be amongst good friends.
On July 26, 2007 at 6:32 pm DownUnderGal said...
Just seen my comment is awaiting moderation. Have just changed internet provider. My husband assured me it would all be fine but EVERY loop I’m on is now screwed up and I want to throw things. Argh!
Sorry bout that – rant over. No doubt this comment will need moderating too. Sorry for that also.
On July 26, 2007 at 7:31 pm ZaZa said...
I have one of those little bowls! And a William, well, three Williams – one ceramic and two stuffed. Used to be a William stuffed animal kit. And I have a spotted (drizzled) yellow dog. I used to go to the Met a lot when I lived in Baltimore – nice train ride.
But I never got thrown out of the Met. I’m not sure whether I should be envious or proud. I’ll wait to see tomorrow’s post before I decide. ;+)
On July 26, 2007 at 9:47 pm roben said...
So what is it with Mesopotamia? I just got an arc today and the setting is 3157 B.C. at the eastern edge of the great southern desert in Mesopotamia. Looks interesting, but not a lot of white space : ) I’m going to try to get it done before leaving for Aust.
The Met. Love the Met. I’m green with envy. Hope it isn’t too humid up there. And ZaZa, is William the blue ceramic hippo?
On July 26, 2007 at 11:01 pm Louisa said...
The farad is defined as the amount of capacitance for which a potential difference of one volt results in a static charge of one coulomb.
I looked up Faraday box, and really, I never saw so much gibberish having to do with hardening electronic equipment against the electromagnetic pulse generated by a nuclear weapon. EMP is real, just the article I picked was written by some guy with an aluminum hat to keep the aliens from taking over his thought processes. Analyzing the first microseconds of a nuclear blast was one of the first things we ever did at the old Apple Users Group back in the day. Boy, most of us were so full of it. That’s really a great way to be happy, you know.
But the goddesses are happy! Yay! You lot have a good time, get yourselves charged and recharged with the heady intellectual and artistic doings of the Big Apple and do some Awesome Writing Stuff. Personally, I try never to eat anything with tentacles. Just me, I know. Pedestrian tastes, that’s me. I only eat things with feet. I should have stopped at Faraday.
On July 27, 2007 at 4:35 pm ZaZa said...
Yes, robena, that’s William. ;+)
I love squid, the small kind, especially the tentacles. Don’t know why.