Weekend Recap

Friday: Colin Hay (of Men at Work fame) played a packed Canal Room and regaled the audience with his interesting anecdotes. His wife was a laugh-riot. Many young chicks there only knew him from his one song on the Garden State Soundtrack and maybe the Men At Work staples. Dinner at Lucky Strike--think I got food poisoning from the sea bass. Late night presidential debate re-run: Bush is so loud and angry!

Saturday: Got my Stanford 5 Year Reunion Class Guide to what the other folks of '99 are up to. Realized most of these folks, their most honored achievement is marriage--somehow that doesn't really seem like an achievement so much as a desire to fit in and belong. Discovered that, yes, (most of) my ex's live in Texas--explains why I have great aversion to living there. The most interesting people are still traveling and doing fascinating things like starting non-profit organizations in Africa or inventing some crazy nuclear fission machine to get rid of green house gases... something like that. Saw Team America at Battery Park Cinemas: laugh your ass off funny--no political group or entertainment industry big-wig is safe from this flick. You go Matt and Trey! Lovely walk back through Tribeca to Greenwich Village. Need to explore Tribeca more. Dinner at Lupa. Was introduced to Aussie sitcom called "The Secret Life of Us" which, for the pilot episode, wa'n't too bad.

Sunday: Went with Esther to see Last Easter by acclaimed playwright who is accused of plagiarizing her TONY winning play, Frozen. Excellent show: Jeffrey Carlson was the highlight (he tells those oldie but goodie jokes we remember as kids--priceless!). There were some blocking issues Esther and I had with the show, but they don't pay us for our opinions on why June never ventured stage left until the end. It was lop-sided in that way. Dinner at Corner Bistro where a pair of lesbians, I think, mistook me and Esther for a "couple" though I think eventually got it that we weren't. That was followed by coffee at a coffee shop next door on Jane Street where I saw a 3 month old black French Bulldog while I read the New York Sunday Times (Jacques Derrida--the father of deconstructionist theory--has passed away!). Need to explore the West Village area more. Walked half way home from Jane and Greenwich Avenue--it was chilly but beautiful outside.

Watch It! Team America: World Police with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Rated R for "graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language, all involving puppets."