Livredor: dinner, and bits of the Village

I had dinner last night with livredor, as part of her tour of North America. She'd said I should pick anyplace where she could find something vegetarian, but this is New York, and we can do better than that. So I picked a kosher (dairy) Indian restaurant in Murray Hill. We had a very nice appetizer of spiced, roast cashew nuts; my main course wasn't as good, perhaps because they were out of my first choice, but taking the staff's recommendation for a replacement should be okay. No matter: the food wasn't bad, only bland, and the company was good.

Eventually, we were fed and the restaurant got noisy, and Livredor asked if we could go someplace for tea. I asked if she minded walking. Indeed she didn't. Down Lex, around Gramercy Park, down to Union Square, over to University, and through Washington Mews, just because we could. So I showed her that mews, and Washington Square Park, on our way to La Lanterna.

We sat in the back garden, which is indeed very pleasant now that Vittorio has it thoroughly fixed up, and on a night that wasn't unbearably hot, but very pleasant. It will be even nicer next time, when the newspaper photographer isn't taking huge numbers of flash photos, but Vittorio seemed pleased by the publicity. I asked, and he said he almost never makes Chantilly cream anymore, because not many people were ordering it: apparently most people want cake, not just fruit and cream. But we drank jasmine tea (Livredor) and seltzer with mango syrup, and talked at length, until we finally decided we needed to get home. We talked about language and culture, and comparative cities, and even books and people. I hadn't realized I was the first person in person she'd met via online contact: it had been an obvious suggestion, when she said she'd be in New York last time. She's good company.

Livredor: dinner, and bits of the Village

I had dinner last night with livredor, as part of her tour of North America. She'd said I should pick anyplace where she could find something vegetarian, but this is New York, and we can do better than that. So I picked a kosher (dairy) Indian restaurant in Murray Hill. We had a very nice appetizer of spiced, roast cashew nuts; my main course wasn't as good, perhaps because they were out of my first choice, but taking the staff's recommendation for a replacement should be okay. No matter: the food wasn't bad, only bland, and the company was good.

Eventually, we were fed and the restaurant got noisy, and Livredor asked if we could go someplace for tea. I asked if she minded walking. Indeed she didn't. Down Lex, around Gramercy Park, down to Union Square, over to University, and through Washington Mews, just because we could. So I showed her that mews, and Washington Square Park, on our way to La Lanterna.

We sat in the back garden, which is indeed very pleasant now that Vittorio has it thoroughly fixed up, and on a night that wasn't unbearably hot, but very pleasant. It will be even nicer next time, when the newspaper photographer isn't taking huge numbers of flash photos, but Vittorio seemed pleased by the publicity. I asked, and he said he almost never makes Chantilly cream anymore, because not many people were ordering it: apparently most people want cake, not just fruit and cream. But we drank jasmine tea (Livredor) and seltzer with mango syrup, and talked at length, until we finally decided we needed to get home. We talked about language and culture, and comparative cities, and even books and people. I hadn't realized I was the first person in person she'd met via online contact: it had been an obvious suggestion, when she said she'd be in New York last time. She's good company.

Coelacanths

This isn't quite a gratuitious icon post--I've collected several better coelacanth pictures from google image search (and now need to figure out a color printer, I think), but this one was already small enough to use here. Perhaps too small.

Coelacanths

This isn't quite a gratuitious icon post--I've collected several better coelacanth pictures from google image search (and now need to figure out a color printer, I think), but this one was already small enough to use here. Perhaps too small.

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Who on Earth told Dubya that it was a good idea to start a land war in Asia?

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Who on Earth told Dubya that it was a good idea to start a land war in Asia?

GIP

My beloved cattitude pointed out that the coelacanth icon I had uploaded earlier--which had the advantage of having been found at that size in an image search--was unrecognizable as such. Hence, I have replaced it with this image.

If I go through with the coelacanth tattoo idea, I may need a color printer, so I can put together some images to take my tattoo artist as a starting point.

GIP

My beloved cattitude pointed out that the coelacanth icon I had uploaded earlier--which had the advantage of having been found at that size in an image search--was unrecognizable as such. Hence, I have replaced it with this image.

If I go through with the coelacanth tattoo idea, I may need a color printer, so I can put together some images to take my tattoo artist as a starting point.