Yes, I am fated forever to return to New York every now and then and recite... tales... thereof. But this trip's been going better than most. First of all, New York is warm. About five degrees celsius warmer than Northern California in the day time right now. That's nice, because sucky weather sucks and New York gets a lot of that. I'm glad that the city's weather's decided to cheer up a bit. Secondly, I've been having dinner out in a new place every night and that's been kinda fun and delicious. Sunday was Spanish, which was, in my opinion, passable food, Monday was Indian Chinese which was tasty but really oily, Tuesday was really good North Indian (mmm, delicious, I shouldn't have reminded myself of it right now), and yesterday was some really nice Mexican. The best thing about Mexican places is that they have piña colada and boy do I love piña colada!
Also, went to see this movie called 300 yesterday... on IMAX! So big, it was kinda amazing - the theatre, that is. As for the movie, I liked it. Of course, if I didn't, I'd have to turn in my penis - a devastating thought for any man. In any case, the movie was completely pointless but also amazingly entertaining at the same time. So much so that my brother saw it the second time with me - of course, in IMAX, it's completely different. Blood and gore, the fun stuff. And all those people whose IM statuses were "This is Sparta" for the last two months or so finally make sense to me. They apparently also decided to show the king having sex with the queen in all the different positions. Was this really necessary? I guess it must be that character-building thing.
Also, New York == rude. Have I mentioned this before? The taxi drivers have less courtesy than auto drivers in Delhi and that's saying something. Everyone's so immensely irritable all the time that it's actually somewhat amusing to watch. The waiter at the restaurant shows this forced restraint as if the best thing he'd like to do would be to smash your head open with his heavy tray but he'll suffice with just rigidly smiling and pretending that he likes you. And he's only making this effort because his tip depends on it. If a tip isn't involved, New Yorkers don't mind using the word 'fuck' for basically any kind of grammatical particle you can think of - as an adjective, adverb, gerund, pronoun, measure word, and also as a replacement for fillers such as "uh" or "er".
Ah well, that's New York.
Also, went to see this movie called 300 yesterday... on IMAX! So big, it was kinda amazing - the theatre, that is. As for the movie, I liked it. Of course, if I didn't, I'd have to turn in my penis - a devastating thought for any man. In any case, the movie was completely pointless but also amazingly entertaining at the same time. So much so that my brother saw it the second time with me - of course, in IMAX, it's completely different. Blood and gore, the fun stuff. And all those people whose IM statuses were "This is Sparta" for the last two months or so finally make sense to me. They apparently also decided to show the king having sex with the queen in all the different positions. Was this really necessary? I guess it must be that character-building thing.
Also, New York == rude. Have I mentioned this before? The taxi drivers have less courtesy than auto drivers in Delhi and that's saying something. Everyone's so immensely irritable all the time that it's actually somewhat amusing to watch. The waiter at the restaurant shows this forced restraint as if the best thing he'd like to do would be to smash your head open with his heavy tray but he'll suffice with just rigidly smiling and pretending that he likes you. And he's only making this effort because his tip depends on it. If a tip isn't involved, New Yorkers don't mind using the word 'fuck' for basically any kind of grammatical particle you can think of - as an adjective, adverb, gerund, pronoun, measure word, and also as a replacement for fillers such as "uh" or "er".
Ah well, that's New York.
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