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July 17th, 2003 |
I know, by this point, you’re probably thinking I need to cut it out with the ice cream. It’s really the ice cream trucks that I’m obsessed with. Last summer, I spent a lot more time in Fort Greene and Greenpoint, where there’s a stronger outsider art stance on the decorating of ice cream trucks. Most of the city, especially 5th Ave. from 8th Street on up, is dominated by the Mr. Softee franchise, which is nice, but sometimes I long for the more primitive. Still, the best I’ve ever seen was in Williamsburg last August when I was checking out a possible apartment for my sister in a very cracked-out stretch off the beaten path.
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Pork rinds = bad idea for skateboards.
Katherine and I checked out the Jos� Antonio Hernandez-Diez show at the New Museum tonight. I thought it was kinda skimpy and just ok, like you’re set if you just check out the website. The little red room above was part of the downstairs show about Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. I was bored to tears. Except for this terrifying statue that had the word “aids” written across its forehead. I did sort of like the little phone booth room with all the little hand drawn cameos and blaring African music. It reminded me of another famous New Museum disappointment, the karoke pods. The best part was seeing the new William Eggleston book in the downstairs shop that had me shouting with joy and cursing the museum for their 100% markup compared to Amazon.
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Why a bowler hat, Mr. Softee?
After that, Katherine and I went down the Corner Bistro, where she had to wait a monumentally long time for a hamburger while I freaked out about the line.
Chevy spotted on the web.
I became a Friendster friend with my favorite new blog, Gothamist . And I guess I should be glad that I didn’t have to pay for the privledge, which instantly perplexed me and then made me wonder, “Can I sell out my friends on eBay?” I guess I would first need to write some very hype-y testamonials. I haven’t seen anything this outrageous on that annoying website since people started selling the current (and free for the asking) MTA subway maps.
