The Weekend Wrapup

Friday - worked until 8pm oh yippee zippee doo dah. Brought work home, worked on the train home, worked on the train back this morning. Luckily forgot to bring the work with me to NY.

Saturday - left for NYC at 8:30, got to Kurt's house (after waiting 1 hour to get through the frickin Holland Tunnel and lower Manhattan) at 12:45. not so bad. We had lunch around the corner from his house at a lovely Japanese place. Had chicken teriyaki which was wonderful, they had that raw crap. Then back to the apartment to rest while they borrowed the car and ferryed stuff from the studio to storage. They raised the studio rent something ridiculous so he shut it down and will work from home exclusively. Luckily it's a 2 bedroom apartment. We never did get to the Fulton Fish market so back into the car to Manhattan to the Whole Foods to shop for our dinner. We made the infamous Lobster Bisque and Stuffed Clams from Dan's recipe. It was close but not his. We figured it was lacking the Jim Beam, beer and cigarette essence of the original chef. Had great Dancentric conversations then brilliant boy decides I need cheering up so we watched (cringed, hid through, and got sick over) Jackass 2. All I could think of was how easily that could have been brilliant boy up there on the screen. Off to bed.

Sunday - Dunkin Donuts coffee and donuts. I just love the fact you can walk to the corner and get anything you want. Then I cleaned the damn kitchen. Then we walked around the neighborhood picking up household odds and ends, like a butter dish and sugar bowl and lightbulbs. Saw the most awesome drugstore, it was in a renovated club, it had a disco ball on the ceiling!!!! Only in NY, I tell ya. Then back to lower Manhattan for a lunch date with an old gf of Kurt's who was leaving to go back to Hamburg. We had a great time at Katz's Deli. Got fondof a pic of Johnny Depp (too bad it was on my blurry camera phone). Then off to Far Rockaway to Beach 73 street where we remembered Dan and give him a sea gift of tobacco and rosemary. Dropped Kurt off back home and home for me by 8:45pm. Whew.

This is Dan's final resting place.