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Celebrate Brooklyn
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bethje, her cousin Dorothea, and I went up to New York City. First, we went to Manhattan, and went shopping in a few places. First we went to Opane, which had a considerably different store arrangement from the time Beth and I went there with not_glimmer a few months ago. We wondered if it might have changed ownership. After that, we went to the Sanrio store in Times Square, where Beth and Dorothea bought a few things, and I got Beth a Chococat umbrella. I took special note of the music that they played there, and it didn't seem to be anything much different from what you'd hear on the radio. I remember they played Billy Joel, Moby, and some emo-esque crap.
Our next stop was Books of Wonder, which was kind of disappointing, but I was able to pick up a copy of L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales. I hadn't read it before, so expect a mini-review, or at least a few comments, in the near future. I wanted to get a copy of Sky Island, but they only had it in hardback, and I didn't want to spring for that. I'll probably eventually want to get hardback versions of all of the Oz and Baum books I have, but I'm not in any big hurry to do so, nor can I really afford to right now.
After spending some time in a pizza parlor and a Barnes & Noble, we took the F train to Brooklyn. It turned out that the train wasn't going to make the stop we wanted (15th Street at Prospect Park), and it was pretty much impossible to hear the announcement. We probably wouldn't have found out at all if it hadn't been for other people who were going to the park. They really need to make things like that more obvious. Stupid New York subway system. I hate Metrocards, too.
( What did I think of the concert? Click here to find out! )
After leaving New York, we ate at the Phily Diner in Runnemede. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do so. Not only was the food not that good, but we were seated at a table next to a large group of possibly the loudest, most obnoxious kids (and I use the term "kids" loosely, since I think at least some of them were around 23) we've ever had the misfortune to encounter. The waitress moved us to another table, but even that didn't help that much. True, those kids aren't the diner's fault, although I kind of think that, if I had been the manager there, I would have had them warned and, if they didn't quiet down after that, thrown out. Sure, a lot of people means a lot of money (assuming they all bought something, and I'm not even sure that they did), but I think the amount of noise they were making could have constituted a disturbance of the peace.
bethje, her cousin Dorothea, and I went up to New York City. First, we went to Manhattan, and went shopping in a few places. First we went to Opane, which had a considerably different store arrangement from the time Beth and I went there with not_glimmer a few months ago. We wondered if it might have changed ownership. After that, we went to the Sanrio store in Times Square, where Beth and Dorothea bought a few things, and I got Beth a Chococat umbrella. I took special note of the music that they played there, and it didn't seem to be anything much different from what you'd hear on the radio. I remember they played Billy Joel, Moby, and some emo-esque crap.Our next stop was Books of Wonder, which was kind of disappointing, but I was able to pick up a copy of L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales. I hadn't read it before, so expect a mini-review, or at least a few comments, in the near future. I wanted to get a copy of Sky Island, but they only had it in hardback, and I didn't want to spring for that. I'll probably eventually want to get hardback versions of all of the Oz and Baum books I have, but I'm not in any big hurry to do so, nor can I really afford to right now.
After spending some time in a pizza parlor and a Barnes & Noble, we took the F train to Brooklyn. It turned out that the train wasn't going to make the stop we wanted (15th Street at Prospect Park), and it was pretty much impossible to hear the announcement. We probably wouldn't have found out at all if it hadn't been for other people who were going to the park. They really need to make things like that more obvious. Stupid New York subway system. I hate Metrocards, too.
( What did I think of the concert? Click here to find out! )
After leaving New York, we ate at the Phily Diner in Runnemede. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do so. Not only was the food not that good, but we were seated at a table next to a large group of possibly the loudest, most obnoxious kids (and I use the term "kids" loosely, since I think at least some of them were around 23) we've ever had the misfortune to encounter. The waitress moved us to another table, but even that didn't help that much. True, those kids aren't the diner's fault, although I kind of think that, if I had been the manager there, I would have had them warned and, if they didn't quiet down after that, thrown out. Sure, a lot of people means a lot of money (assuming they all bought something, and I'm not even sure that they did), but I think the amount of noise they were making could have constituted a disturbance of the peace.
