Halloween Humiliation

the classic! how could we resist?

Top Banana...

Cats who laugh at banana outfits have to wear the pumpkin hat.

@ the Rose Bowl

The Chef's Birthday

...and then last week the Chef had a birthday with cocktails and cake. We are getting to the denial #'s, but who can really believe that all of this has lasted so long. Happy Birthday Erik!

3 o'clock Bombe

Rodeo Queen put this Baked Alaska Bombe in her oven and it turned out just right.

and Montréal QB

At Pop Montreal Festival -- there were married duos that rocked.

Matt & Kim (the other ones!)

Lullaby Arkestra

+ Holger (Brazil), Ninjasonic (Brooklyn), Tune Yards (Vermont), William Blakes (Denmark), By Divine Right (Toronto), Butthole Surfers (Austin), Nutsak (Montreal), Roxanne Shante (Queens, NY), Tiohtiake Drum Circle, Mittenstrings (Portland), Destroyer (Vancouver), Avec Pas D'Casque (Montreal), Hannah Georgas (Vancouver), The Daredevil Christopher Wright (Eau Claire, WI!).

+ good advice from Buffy Saint-Marie ("Keep your nose on the joy trail.") the confusion between oeust and oust, autumn leaves, Portuguese grillades, Phonopolis record store spree, hockey game cheers, pomplamoose et parapluie, jambon et brie baguette, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, chatty cab drivers who like Obama and bi-lingual everything.

NYC

Recent weeks of whirlwind travel. NYC for fun and friends and Montreal for work (okay, it was fun too, or rather beaucoup amusé). What do I want to remember before my brain turns to mush? So many highlights - it's a blur....especially from the back of a taxi cab.


NYC: friends! food! drink! (The Spotted Pig, Fatty Crab, Prune, The Ginger Man, PDT, Spuyten Duvel & Diner in Brooklyn) Here is the printed menu @ Diner vs. the secret one that is ultimately written on the table by the cheery waitress.

music! (Marianne Faithful @ Town Hall w/my favorite hip jazzsters Marc Ribot, Joey Baron, Rob Berger & Greg Cohen and the Death by Audio Maze installation noise provided by ELECTROPUTAS) I was won over by Marianne's self-deprecating stage presence, as if she could fool us by pretending that she was a regular middle-aged lady. I'm not buying it Marianne.

Below - M&N enjoying the Electroputas, but not as much as The Chef who had to be pulled out of that scene by his neck scruff. I knew as soon as I heard the cacophony that he would be in heaven.
ART! photography: Robert Frank "The Americans" & Dennis Hopper (that's right, Dennis Hopper) "Signs of the Times" + funny faces @ the Met.

Nature! walking the High Line, Central Park and my friend the turtle @ the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.

One more memory from the Hell Elevator.

p.s. I lost my wallet in the back of a taxi and the world didn't end.

part two: Montreal....