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| Fancy drinks at the secret bar |
I apologize to all my friends who’ve said, “I’ve loved
reading your blog while you were in NY”
because as you’ve noticed… I never finished it. In my head the first week I got back to
LA I said, okay Jamie, 2 more posts to go to finish up NYC blog smog, I can do
it this week! Well I didn’t write
them, and I didn’t write them in the many weeks that followed, of course,
because I’m a lazy good for nothing person who can’t finish a personal project
to save my life! Ahhh. But alas, I’m picking up the pieces and
trying once again, to finish. Here
is my 2nd to last post:
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| This Way -Lil Piggy |
“This Little Piggy…had Roast Beef” grew to be my favorite late night bite of choice
over the weeks and months I was living around the corner. It's around the
corner from Dave, actually… and it’s basically a fancy roast beef and cheese
sam. The ‘lil piggies were the way
to go because they’re the perfect size for 3am… if you try to be ambitious and
eat a roast beef hoagie all drunk at that time, you’ll be sorry! Oh yeah, and it’s with cheese wiz
baby! Mmmmm! How did I not have a heart attack in
NY?
My 2nd to last week in NY I have no visitors
staying with me so there’s a slight calm in the air. Already having finished and locked my show, work is nothing
but smooth sailing! I’m leaving
town in a few days to go to my dear old friend Alexis and David’s wedding down
in Virginia and I have a new dress in tow! In between laundry and packing I make room for a few school
night outings with Dan McCarthy who was in town visiting friends. His awesome friend Olivia directs us
toward a secret bar on my block!
And let me reiterate that this is my 2nd to last week here
and I have no idea about a secret bar on my block! In fact, there are two secret bars!! One is right across the damn street
from me behind a “Jane’s Sweet Buns” shoppe – a low key tiny narrow bar that I
only ended up poking my head in.
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| perfect shape/size ice cube |
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| Dan in the phone booth!! |
The other more fascinating ‘secret bar’ is inside the
Crif Dogs joint a few doors down from me!
I believe it’s called “Don’t Tell Your Friends” or something along those
lines… You go down into the hot dog place (step down, nyc style) where no one
seems to care whether you order a dog or not, turn left and there’s this old
school telephone booth. Dan goes
in the booth as he is the most proactive of the bunch and picks up the
receiver. The person on the other
end says simply, “do you have a reservation?” Of course we don’t and there are
like 6 of us, but we are able to make one for an hour from now and come
back. It is soooo speakeasy! I love it! We run off to the KGB bar a couple streets away which was
another strange cool experience, but not fun I would say, just really communist
Russia-like! We get the call from
the secret bar and come back to do the same routine… this time, the other side
of the telephone booth wall opens up and we walk one by one into a cavernous
long bar where a table is waiting for us.
It’s like going through the wardrobe into Narnia! Waiters dress like they’re in the 20s,
vests and poofy sleeves, drinks all have some sort of bitters in them and high
priced, but everyone gets a seat.
They are especially strict on the whole no standing around bar
situation. Oh and they serve food
creations with the hotdogs from next door!
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| mouth watering goodness |
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| fat homentashans |
Friday morning before my bus to DC, I get my hair did
for the first time this trip! It
is a very expensive cut and color from the fabulous Little Hair Shoppe on E 4th,
but my hairdresser is equally fabulous and magically I’m sun-kissed blonde and
ready for the weekend! I finally
stop in at the fascinating looking “Moishe’s bakery” on 2nd Ave
where I sample the most delicious apricot homenstachian & rainbow sprinkle
cookie… Ahh I can still taste the buttery cookies now!
I was off to DC on the longest bolt bus ride ever,
including a stinky bathroom that forced people to put clothes around their
noses because it was that unbearable!
A quick summary of the wedding weekend was that it was amazing! Old old friends, warm wineries, Great
Falls Manors & Tater Tot; how could it not be a great time! And of course Alexis and David are
amazing people, kudos to you guys, 2 months later :-) But alas this blog isn’t about the places I travel outside
of NY, so I won’t go into anymore detail or photos than that. But I did have a real epiphany while I
was out in the country … I finally understand what everybody always says about
“having to get out of the city for the weekend”… I never could relate to that
as a first timer NYorker, but now, after 3 months, I get it… city life can get
slightly closterphobic over time… huh, had no idea until I saw the green
meadows that stretched for miles into Tobacco Country… fresh air and lots of
space is good for the mind.
Now it’s Monday, and I have my last week of work ahead of
me, or what I think is my last week of work. The system went down the Thursday before I left for the
weekend and I completely forget about it until I check my email. System is still down, major problems
have ensued… media gone, and no editing will commence until the assistants put
it all back up. Wow! Usually I’d be gitty but I feel pretty
bad for the team and a little unsatisfied that I won’t be able to complete my
work before I leave for good… but ohhhh well! Jay’s with me now so I’m sure we can figure out something to
do in the big apple.
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| Andy & Jay- big time rivals |
Wednesday night we gather a gaggle of peeps out to
CitiField, to see the METS play the PHILLIES! What an awesome night!
The stadium itself is wonderful; it’s fun, colorful and full of
character especially in contrast to the extremely vanilla new Yankee
Stadium.
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| Ky & Busch! |
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| Dan & I, pretty stadium |
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| Jay & Hiltz from Sauken |
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| Meghan Phanatic |
The evening is filled with lots of beers, Hasidic jew
sightings, shrimp po-boys & the philly phanatic!
Meghan Callaghan busts him out for the occasion, and as you
can see, everyone has a turn to be a phanatic.
With this intense National League rivalry, for me, the
phillies are the lesser of two evils so I’m happy they win.
The next couple of days, Jay conveniently gets sick, can’t take the heat I
guess! So I’m off to take in a
little last minute NY culture.
After picking up a delicious lox and cream cheese bagel from
ess-a-bagel, I hit up the MET.
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| That's me waving at you! |
The
sculpture on the rooftop is really awesome.
Unfortunately I missed the boat to be able to climb up into
this crazy mirrored modern art thing but the views from the rooftop in general
are breathtaking, as most people well know.
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| Cool Fathers & Sons in Agony |
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| MET rooftop view |
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| MET rooftop sculpture reflection |
See you for my final blog next! Sooner than later I hope!
I apologize to all my friends who’ve said, “I’ve loved
reading your blog while you were in NY”
because as you’ve noticed… I never finished it. In my head the first week I got back to
LA I said, okay Jamie, 2 more posts to go to finish up NYC blog smog, I can do
it this week! Well I didn’t write
them, and I didn’t write them in the many weeks that followed, of course,
because I’m a lazy good for nothing person who can’t finish a personal project
to save my life! Ahhh. But alas, I’m picking up the pieces and
trying once again, to finish. Here
is my 2nd to last post:
“This Little Piggy…had Roast Beef” grew to be my favorite late night bite of choice
over the weeks and months I was living around the corner. It's around the
corner from Dave, actually… and it’s basically a fancy roast beef and cheese
sam. The ‘lil piggies were the way
to go because they’re the perfect size for 3am… if you try to be ambitious and
eat a roast beef hoagie all drunk at that time, you’ll be sorry! Oh yeah, and it’s with cheese wiz
baby! Mmmmm! How did I not have a heart attack in
NY?
I was off to DC on the longest bolt bus ride ever,
including a stinky bathroom that forced people to put clothes around their
noses because it was that unbearable!
A quick summary of the wedding weekend was that it was amazing! Old old friends, warm wineries, Great
Falls Manors & Tater Tot; how could it not be a great time! And of course Alexis and David are
amazing people, kudos to you guys, 2 months later :-) But alas this blog isn’t about the places I travel outside
of NY, so I won’t go into anymore detail or photos than that. But I did have a real epiphany while I
was out in the country … I finally understand what everybody always says about
“having to get out of the city for the weekend”… I never could relate to that
as a first timer NYorker, but now, after 3 months, I get it… city life can get
slightly closterphobic over time… huh, had no idea until I saw the green
meadows that stretched for miles into Tobacco Country… fresh air and lots of
space is good for the mind.
Now it’s Monday, and I have my last week of work ahead of
me, or what I think is my last week of work. The system went down the Thursday before I left for the
weekend and I completely forget about it until I check my email. System is still down, major problems
have ensued… media gone, and no editing will commence until the assistants put
it all back up. Wow! Usually I’d be gitty but I feel pretty
bad for the team and a little unsatisfied that I won’t be able to complete my
work before I leave for good… but ohhhh well! Jay’s with me now so I’m sure we can figure out something to
do in the big apple.
Wednesday night we gather a gaggle of peeps out to
CitiField, to see the METS play the PHILLIES! What an awesome night!
The stadium itself is wonderful; it’s fun, colorful and full of
character especially in contrast to the extremely vanilla new Yankee
Stadium.
The evening is filled with lots of beers, Hasidic jew
sightings, shrimp po-boys & the philly phanatic! Meghan Callaghan busts him out for the occasion, and as you
can see, everyone has a turn to be a phanatic. With this intense National League rivalry, for me, the
phillies are the lesser of two evils so I’m happy they win.
