“All The Young Dudes” - Mott The Hoople
Probably a little before your time, Wonka.
Oops! That’s [Wonko**.
How inhumane!! Those poor baby seals!! How could you!!
Before my time? Yes.
Cool song though. I tend to like classic rock a lot.
I just got an e-mail from my godmother. Turns out her sister is ill, and they might not be going afterall. In fact, she encouraged me to expect that they are NOT going at all. FEH.
On the up-side, Jetblue is moving into Burlington, and starting in September, they are offering $25 flights to NYC. So I’ll be down like once or twice a month. BUT STILL! ARGGGGG!!!
$25 flights into NY? You have no excuses now. You must come to NYC, and it’s obvious you want to Swiddles, don’t be afraid, come over to the darkside Swiddles, you’ll like it here. Especially for only $25.
Manny, let me treat you to a round of hearty applause. Having been to about five of these affairs to date (New York and Chicago chapters), I was beginning to wonder, deep in the dark dark night, just why a group of supreme intellectuals like the SDers seemed to spend all their time together lapping up liquor in smoky bars.
(Not that there’s anything WRONG with lapping up liquor in smoky bars, mind you. I don’t want to dis anyone’s hobbies.)
So consider the following possibilities, for the next time Swiddles gets down here…we take in Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera, enjoying trenchant analytical discourse after…a trip to the Bronx Zoo to see the scary gorillas…laughing at the Rothkos and Pollocks at MOMA…a merry traipse trough Green-Wood Cemetery, looking for amusing tombs.
If we pick something mentally daring, we might even get Eve to come back to one!
Bravo! I’d definately be on-board for the opera (The NYC Dopers go Formal!) or MOMA. But the gorillas… ::shiver:: And I have a bizaar facination with cemeteries. I nominate Ike to be the entertainment director. 
SR: Sorry to hear about possibly-dashed plans.
(But, Ike, if you do manage to get a “Doper’s tour of the city” off the ground, can I be on the planning committee? Please?)
I live right near Green-wood Cemetary and have a $50 coffee table book on it. I haven’t made the tour yet, but that would be one activity I would really get into.
I don’t think I could stand another museum (it happens when you have out-of-town guests every week), and I can’t tolerate zoos, but I could always meet you guys at the smoky bar afterwards, depending on the day.
The Botanical garden is right by MOMA, not to mention prospect park. (don’t know if anyone else has an interest in that sort of thing). Oh, and we could walk around Times Square and look at all the pretty lights (kidding).
Sorry you aint (or might not be) coming Swiddles. That would have made for a great good-bye to NYC party for me, since I’m moving out to eastern LI at the end of August for school. Here’s hoping it still happens though.
“The Botanical Garden is right near MOMA”??
I don’t know what city your talking about, but it ain’t New York! Did you BMA, perchance?
… And did I mean “Did you MEAN BMA, perchance?” perchance?
Why yes, I did.
Ooops, yes I did make a mistake. I am so embarrassed :o
From now on I’ll just remain silent here in the dark. Please, carry on without me.
The opera???I’d have to swill the booze first…
Haven’t seen new planetarium yet, last time up was there was 2 weeks before opening…If I wanted to make a fun museum trip, take it on the road - didn’t they just open the new branch of Air & Space out at Dulles this spring? Been to old one about 6 times, new one has a lot of exhibits that were in storage. Too bad the shuttle goes to Reagan.
It’s actually quite easy. The trick is sneaking up behind them quietly so they don’t escape into the water. Then you just wind up, keep your eye on the seal, and MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THROUGH. It’s a lot like golf, actually.
Besides, they were askin’ for it! they’re all askin’ for it!
[sub]no actual baby seals were harmed in the making of this post[/sub]
Did you mean BAM perchance, perchance, perchance?
No not BAM, I was refering to the Brooklyn Museum, which for some reason I always instinctually think of as MOMA, sometimes I catch myself moments after, sometimes it takes someone else to point it out to me (as was the case). Strange huh?
Well, I’ll duck back into my state of embarrassed silence again. Pay me no mind.
Let’s all get out of Manhattan (I’m sure he’d appreciate it) and do an all day, all Brooklyn Fest of Enlightenment and Merriment.
8:00am-- Tai Chi at the Grand Army Plaza
8:30-- Stand around fountain and wonder why there is no water.
9:00-- Is the library open? Brooklyn Public Library, main branch. Sign up for 1/2 hour of free internet access
12:00pm: Grow tired of waiting for free internet access. Try Botanical Gardens.
1:00-- You mean the Zoo is not in the Botanical Gardens? We have to go all the way across the street? And we have to pay? Forget it, I’m taking the trolley, that’s free!
1:30-- You mean the trolley is free, but I have to pay to get in the museum? Hey, the subway is cheaper! I’m going underground.
3:00-- This is Coney Island. Watch your step and your wallet. You may not ride the Hell Hole, it’s been closed since someone lost a major body part there. You may not ride the Jumbo Jet, it’s been closed since another somebody lost a different major body part there. The beach is free, now let’s see if we can find a few inches of sand to sit on.
3:50-- O.K. the sand is just too hot. How about a Nathan’s hot dog. Or some Nathan’s rubberbands-- I mean clams. In the mood for some frog’s legs? Nathan’s got em!
4:20-- Nathan’s a bust? How about some clams on the boardwalk. Where exactly do these clams come from? Certainly not that water.
5:00-- Back underground to look at some dead people. You can’t actually see the dead people, but there is a really old cemetary here.
7:00-- A free concert in Prospect Park. Almost free. Willie Colon for 3 bucks! It’s a bargain.
10:00-- Enough culture. Let’s all go see the stinking, rotting Gowanus Canal. It stinks! Maybe we can see a rat swim by.
10:15-- I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough culture and rats. Let’s commence drinking. Pete’s Alehouse? Loki’s? The Landmark? Harry Bolen’s? 200 5th? Ghost? So many choices and we haven’t even left Park Slope.
1:00am-- You all are drunk. Go home!
Wow, Pinky, I felt I experianced the true Pink Tour of New York. In fact, it was so vibrant that I’m not sure if we should marr it with an actual real life re-tracing of the Pink Tour Route. You know, for the sake of the art.