Lists: May 2012

Recap in Bullets

• Waiting at airport
• Waiting at airport
• Giving up on waiting at airport and
• Going home for the LAST FUCKING TIME before
• Booking a ticket from Hong Kong then
• Booking a ticket to Hong Kong, where I
• Meet Cesca and Amber
• And drink
• And drink some more
• What’s the name of this bar again?
• POUBELLE INTERNATIONALE!
• I have no idea what this song is, but I don’t think I care.
• I’m throwing up on the side of this building
• Is this a cab? This is a cab.
• WHERE THE HELL AM I? 
• (This is Amber’s apartment)
• Wake up next to Amber on what appears to be a Queen-sized bunk bed
• Breakfast.
• Too poor for lunch. 
• Trashy TV hour at Amber’s place: Burlesque, Extreme Couponing, a chunk of Dazed and Confused
• End Hong Kong Layover
• Taipei for a couple of hours
• Coming-of-age movie day on the plane
• LAX
• Pasadena
• Brian and Eva
• I love Brian and Eva
• Waiting for Guffman
  
• Eva and Brady
• Eva and Quark
• Cabin in the Woods
  
• This stupid picture we took at Space 1520
• Wendy and Geoff
• I love Wendy and Geoff
• First stop: food. Feed your face first.
• Museum of Jurassic Technology
• Then Intellegentsia
• Then more food
• The Amoeba
• HOLY FUCK, I MIGHT BE JETLAGGED
• I think we went to Sta. Ana…
• Then Dale.
• (Before that)
• Then Bruxie!
• Then more food!
• Then Art Supply Warehouse!
• Then fancy dinner with the parents!
• Then more jetlag-induced narcolepsy
• THEN ROCK BAND!
• Then more jetlag-induced narcolepsy
• Then we had to go to the airport
• Then Austin
• Damn Greyhound won’t let me leave my bag anywhere
• Damn Holiday Inn counter guy won’t let me bribe him into watching my bag
• Damn Travelodge…I give up.
• Chris carries my bag around Austin in exchange for letting him use my phone
• End up drinking with underaged Chris
• End up not wanting to drink with underaged Chris
• Back at Greyhound in this especially cracky area of Austin
• Greyhound to McAllen
• …
• …
• …
• (This is the part where I end up in McAllen, TX)
• …
• …
• ROAD TRIP TO AUSTIN
• But first: San Antonio
• Andy Warhol Retro
• I think I love you, Austin
• Jade’s awesome apartment
• This band sucks, but these people are wonderful
• Drinking with Greg
• Bike day!
• Celebratory wholesome fun with Wini and…ohmygod, what was her name…Megan?
• (I feel bad now, but all the people at that party were lovely. And happy mother’s day.)
• MOAAARRR BIKING
• Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Round 2
• JFK. Hello NYC
• Holy shit, Googlemaps, you have failed me
• Getting on the LIRR from Lynbrook back towards NYC
• Squeezed into some dude’s armpit on the A train
• (This really isn’t so bad)
• Harlem Barbecue, just because it’s so nice outside
• Then Park Slope, and boots from the sad Russian
• “Mom and Dad Rock” at Union Hall
• Bolt bus to Philly
• I fucking love you, Philly
• The real two-headed boy
• Then the Fabric Workshop and Museum
• …I know something else happened on Tuesday, but I forgot…
• Ava Luna at the Knitting Factory
• Then Whitney Biennial
• Desert Island
• Rob from Greenpoint,
• Japanese coffee shop,
• Sewage Treatment Plant
• Exit Art and Boryana Rossa
• Drinking with Dawn in the East Village
• I cannot for the love of god remember where Friday went…
• But I do remember meeting Kenny for drinks, then trucking it back to
• NEW FUCKING JERSEY
• I got a gash on my leg from that sofa bed
• Only to go back to Brooklyn the next day
• Outerhope!
• Back to Jersey
• We have broken the sofa bed (sorry Mom)
• Back to Harlem
• Back to Brooklyn
• Ridgewood chillin’
• Ruined the mashed potatoes
• Ridgewood stressin’…over potato redemption
• At this point, I have become immune to alcohol
• Missed the Outerhope Rock Shop gig because I was dicking around online
• Mike the skate instructor with a degree in Madness Studies
• Morningside Park is the best park ever
• Yeah, suck it Central Park. Morningside Park is the best park ever.
• I feel like a hobbit.
• Museum of the City of New York: grid, protest, stories the city tells itself.
• You won’t get my number by jabbing me with your droidphone
• No really, please stop jabbing me with your droidphone
• Wine at the kitchen table with Paul. Then banana beer. This is what friends are for.
• And the two hot French girls. They are so hot.
• Did I mention the two hot French girls?
• Unf.
• To Chelsea for the FIT Museum
• To Chelsea for the High Line
• Lunch with Shane
• Pounded a Guinness and felt nothing, because my blood is now about 30% alcohol.
• Dinner with Julie and Dan.
• I love Julie and Dan.
• I love every couple I’ve met on this trip.
• I want the world in a group hug.
• I also just had a banh mi pickled veggie dog and was so happy. I love everyone.
• Drinks with Paul and Julliet
• Drinks with Berto
• I am still not drunk
• And now it is raining
• And now I have to run to the airport
• Flight delayed on account of stormy weather
• And San Francisco
• And Tony at the airport, waiting
• And then Lori’s, because San Francisco
• And then the hostel
• Stephen Elliott asked me to have coffee
• I was late and missed Stephen Elliott
• Coffee’s on the house. “It happens sometimes”
• People are kind.
• Coffee with Tom instead
• Then ice cream at Bi-Rite and “Would you like to walk through Dolores Park with me? I’ve never walked through Dolores Park.”
• Push Dance Company live at Union Square
• Dinner with Ashley
• Breakfast with self.
• Missed Stephen Elliott for coffee AGAIN
• Drinks with PJ
• Gaultier at the DeYoung
• SF MoMA then coffee with PJ
• Dinner with Sean
• Zuppa employee drama results in mass-firing and free meal
• (High-fives?)
• Outerhope at the Hemlock
• Coffee with PJ
• Mike and Mick and the 3-neighborhood walking tour of SF
• Drinking with Zach the Texan with the dog named Texas
• Barbara wants me to meet her in Oakland. I am not going to Oakland.
• Lunch with Bert, who has to run an errand in Oakland
• I end up in Oakland anyway
• Back in San Francisco
• YOGA TO THE PEOPLE!
• Best yoga ever.
• Dinner with the Startup girls, Ashley and Lily
• Run to airport, but first, polaroids for Startup house photo wall
• I cannot find my sister.
• I found my sister.
• San Mateo
• Back in the city
• Back in San Mateo
• Writing this