Tuesday 19 August 2008
10:48 AM � My plane is delayed. Boo. Here are some quotes From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
pg. 69 �Both Jamie and Claudia had acquired a talent for being near but never part of a group (Some people, Saxonberg, never learn to do that all their lives, and some learn it all too well.)� - Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
pg. 87 �You sure don�t sound like a scientist. What kind of scientist would want to hug a statue?� � Jamie
11:54 AM � pg. 137-138 �The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don�t pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.�- Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
4:49 PM � A middle-aged Latino couple is scandalously making out against the side of a building here in Times Square. Steve calls this �chucky cheese making out�
5:27 PM � When the subway door opened a women crept up to Steve and listened for his heart beat near his kidney and backed back out, still crouched over, to the platform as the door closed.
7:12 PM � Here at Shea Stadium the NY Mets are playing the Atlanta Braves. Everyone keeps booing Chipper Jones. The old man behind us says �Here comes the met killer�
7:29 PM � two kids, one black one white, are both wearing matching gray tank tops and camo cargo shorts.
9:16 PM � an advertisement for Kozy Shack Pudding! continually flashes across Shea Stadium.
9:18 PM � �Oh backwards Mets is Stem!� � Steve
Wednesday 20 August 2008
11:54 AM � Here are some artists I want to research further I saw at MoMA: Ad Reinhardt, Roy Lichtenstein, Eduardo Paolozzi, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan
12:50 PM � As Steve and I ponder where the hot dog stand that Liz Lemon frequents right outside 30 Rock is in real life here next to Rockefeller Plaza a 20-something guy just came up the stairs, turned back towards his family and just started doing a stationary conga-type dance until he noticed Steve and I watching him and he stopped immediately and looked extremely embarrassed.
4:29 PM � We are in Central Park having a chat and a read. Behind us, there are two moms both dressed in plum colored t-shirts and dark jeans and they are doing a metronome like dance bouncing their babies up and down.
4:31 PM � Still bouncing.
4:37 PM � Still bouncing.
4:49 PM � Here is a quote from Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Pg 32 - �Can you believe it? Only in Haiti would a child cry out that she is hungry during a spinal tap.� � Dr. Paul Farmer
4:51 PM � Two people, one male and one female, both twenty-somethings, have just sat near us here at Central Park. They are complaining loudly about something. The female just said the following �Everyone was like she is SO delightful but I hated her because she was a liar and a whore.�
4:53 PM � Steve and I have made friends with these complainers, Ruthie and Bogdan.* They apparently were at some sort of theatre workshop in LA with a bunch of liars and whores. Ruthie is from NYC but is going back to Austin, TX where her job is. Bogdan is from Transylvania, Romania.
*Captain�s Note: We thought Bogdan�s name was Mogdan until he clarifyed this later that evening
5:13 PM � as we chat with Ruthie and Bogdan an old bearded white dude stops and stares at us and inspects us as if were rare specimens of unicorns or something
5:26 PM � Bogdan accuses Steve of being a homophobe.
6:12 PM � Steve: you know, like a bichon frise
jessm: is that like a slushie?
