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It has been a long time since I have blogged. It has been a long time since I have done a lot of Captain Capitalism work also.

I have been working on a cartoon but between Powerhouse and other extra curriculars I have not gotten very far...I need to change that.

But I do like vacation blogging because I get a chance to put the pictures all in one place and come back and look at them myself.

We have not been home for several weekends now, having various family functions and work obligations. Mandy has been very busy with a trial and has been in and out of New Orleans. We did get to participate in Halloween though, Jason Williams had a last minute party, so we made a last minute shopping trip trip this Halloween. Mandy was a really good sport with the costumes.




This past week, I flew into New York for a conference and to hit some meetings, then enjoy the weekend for a little vacation. I took a red-eye on Tuesday morning. I got the hotel and checked in. Mandy got me a room at the Hudson which is a fancy hotel near Columbus circle. I took a short nap, worked for a little bit then decided to explore. On the way out the door I ran into a group from the opera doing a impromptu rehearsal.




Good bless, New York. Dont see that every day.

I took the subway to Chinatown, and got thoroughly lost, here are some pics from my meandering. Here are some of the things I saw.

Frogs in a garbage can.

I got some Dim Sum including some chicken feet, which were mediocre.

Go in the park.

On the way back to the apartment, I stopped by the Time Warner center on the way back to the hotel, and the cast of Glee was doing an appearance, and there was mass teenage pandemonium. Then I went to Kennedy's, a local Irish pub, had a late dinner, enjoyed the ambiance and went back to the hotel to get ready for the next days meetings.

- Wed 4
I went to meet Mike Mendelsohn, our Powerhouse New York agent in Chelsea near the New York Times building. I got to hit mid-town comics while I was there, which is always nice.

I know it is a cliched song title, but Autumn in New York is incredible. Trees change colors.
Mike and I at at Five Napkin Burger, and then walked as many of the calories as we could on the long walk to the Jatvis center and attended the ad:tech convention. It was supposed to be a "internet advertising" convention, and since Powerhouse is doing some advergaming and other buzzword work, we thought it might be a good opportunity. Honestly, though we made a few good connections, it was more of a spamming convention and acronym convention. CPA, ROI, CPA, TGIF...I really didnt know what most of the people did after talking to them.

I walked Mike back to Grand Central and we had a drink before his train. I went back to the hotel and crashed for a couple hours, then went to eat a lonely dinner at Thomas Keller's Bouchon bakery. Luckily, Mandy's trial got continued and she ended up getting on a plane and was on her way to NY. I went back to Kennedy's to watch what turned out to be the final game of the World Series, Mandy made it in time to watch the bartender firing up Sinatra on the loud speaker. Mandy and I headed to Times Square to watch the celebration.

Thurs 5-
The next morning Mandy and I went to Balthazaar for Brunch before I had to catch some meetings. We ordered Le Grand. The waiters face did not fully notify me when I asked him "if it was enough for two"

After some meetings I met Mandy back in Soho and we shopped around, then made our way to the village where we stopped at Mc Sorely's:

and the Cooper Union, which apparently has a Frank Gehry building now.

We met my cousin Sarah for dinner, then walked around town, and took one of those rides around Central Park, just because we had never done that in the many times we have been to NY.

Friday 6

I had meetings most of Friday and got off around 6, just in time to meet Mandy to make it to see Hamlet with Jude Law (the original reason we were going to New York). The play was amazing.
This picture won''t mean much to any one else but we were in the front row. Jude Law spat on us for 3 hours. I could write a lot about how great the play was, but I will leave that for the dream journal.

Sat 7
The next morning we met Scotty Sharp, former Viz lab cohort now Blue Sky-er, at the Met to check out a Samurai exhibit that was quite good (unfortunately no pics allowed). But I did get a pick of Mandy and Scotty in front of the Frick, which is what Stan Lee based the Avengers mansion on, according to a book I got when we were in New York.

We ate at the Brooklyn Diner (the finer diner) where we apparently werent the first rappers to make an appearance.



We then went to Lee's Art Supply which has a curious tagline


Scotty was going to see Patton Oswald, so we decided to see if they still had some tickets...luckily we got some great seats and had a good time at the show. Afterwards we walked Scotty to Grand Central had a Hoho Dingdong and went back to our hotel.

-Sun 8

The next morning Mandy and I went to brunch with my cousin, her husband and daughter. After brunch we had a great kids day. We went to FAO Schwartz:

We looked at puppies, and the Central Park Zoo. It was a really good time.

Afterwards we walked around time square waiting for a Louis CK show. Some of the artists doing the portraits in the square are truly amazing.

The Louis CK show was great, though the venue was not.

-Monday 9

We woke up, I worked for a couple of hours, we packed a lot of baggage and went out into the city for the last day. We ate at Daniel Boulud's restaurant, which specializes in charcuterie...which makes me happy.

We walked around Times Square for the 100th time, and then went to Macy's for a bit. By this time our legs and feet were blown out from days and days of walking and we decided to go to the airport early.

I love New York, but I am very happy to be back home.