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I still haven't found work, and I still spend most of my time at home on the computer, as you've probably guessed. I've also been suffering from allergies, which apparently are really bad for everyone this year. And I've been seeing quite a few cats wandering around Brooklyn, and while most of them are scared of people, a few will come up to us. Do people let their cats outside in the city? I had outdoor cats in my youth, but now I'm too paranoid not to keep my cats inside.
I did do a few things recently that I think might be worthy of mentioning, though. On Thursday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I met up with Stephanie to see a RISK! show, which is basically a storytelling session hosted by Kevin Allison from The State. He wasn't actually there for this particular show, though. The point is that the stories are ones you normally wouldn't want to share, which I guess is where the risk comes in. We were going to eat at a place called Mook's beforehand, but they were closed. So instead we went to the Orion Diner, where I had what they called a Tropical Waffle. This was topped with peaches, bananas, raisins, and whipped cream; and I'm not sure I would consider all of those things tropical, but it was good.
Today was a They Might Be Giants fan meet-up at the Sidewalk Cafe in Manhattan, hosted by Madeleine, whom I've known online for a while and met in person once. There weren't all that many people there, which was probably a good thing overall. Madeleine played some songs on her ukulele, which seems to be the hip instrument for girls in particular these days. I guess they all want to be the next Tiny Tim or George Formby. After her set came James K. Folk, who did mostly TMBG covers but a few of his own songs as well. Mike Cecconi, who bore a resemblance to Penn Jillette, read some of his poems very loudly. Brook Pridemorgue played a few covers, mostly of rather melancholy B-sides. Finally, Jordan Cooper did a few of his own songs, plus covers of "Narrow Your Eyes" and "Lullaby to Nightmares" with his girlfriend Kristen, who's in the band Sally with him. Actually, the only other time we'd been to that venue was to see Jordan upwards of ten years ago. I answered a trivia question correctly and won a copy of Moxy Früvous' Bargainville (which Beth and I both already own, and I'm a little leery of that band now anyway since one-quarter of them was recently revealed to be chronically abusive), some guitar picks, and one ofslfcllednowhere's zines. After the show, we ate at a nearby diner called Odessa's, where I think Beth had eaten before but I hadn't. Then we went to a place called Big Gay Ice Cream pretty much entirely because of the name, but it was quite good. It's apparently quite popular, as it there was a fairly long line. Inside, they had a poster of Bea Arthur giving the Heimlich Maneuver to a unicorn.
I did do a few things recently that I think might be worthy of mentioning, though. On Thursday,
bethje and I met up with Stephanie to see a RISK! show, which is basically a storytelling session hosted by Kevin Allison from The State. He wasn't actually there for this particular show, though. The point is that the stories are ones you normally wouldn't want to share, which I guess is where the risk comes in. We were going to eat at a place called Mook's beforehand, but they were closed. So instead we went to the Orion Diner, where I had what they called a Tropical Waffle. This was topped with peaches, bananas, raisins, and whipped cream; and I'm not sure I would consider all of those things tropical, but it was good.Today was a They Might Be Giants fan meet-up at the Sidewalk Cafe in Manhattan, hosted by Madeleine, whom I've known online for a while and met in person once. There weren't all that many people there, which was probably a good thing overall. Madeleine played some songs on her ukulele, which seems to be the hip instrument for girls in particular these days. I guess they all want to be the next Tiny Tim or George Formby. After her set came James K. Folk, who did mostly TMBG covers but a few of his own songs as well. Mike Cecconi, who bore a resemblance to Penn Jillette, read some of his poems very loudly. Brook Pridemorgue played a few covers, mostly of rather melancholy B-sides. Finally, Jordan Cooper did a few of his own songs, plus covers of "Narrow Your Eyes" and "Lullaby to Nightmares" with his girlfriend Kristen, who's in the band Sally with him. Actually, the only other time we'd been to that venue was to see Jordan upwards of ten years ago. I answered a trivia question correctly and won a copy of Moxy Früvous' Bargainville (which Beth and I both already own, and I'm a little leery of that band now anyway since one-quarter of them was recently revealed to be chronically abusive), some guitar picks, and one of
slfcllednowhere's zines. After the show, we ate at a nearby diner called Odessa's, where I think Beth had eaten before but I hadn't. Then we went to a place called Big Gay Ice Cream pretty much entirely because of the name, but it was quite good. It's apparently quite popular, as it there was a fairly long line. Inside, they had a poster of Bea Arthur giving the Heimlich Maneuver to a unicorn.
