I'm always on about learning new things, like going back to school for a third degree or learning to speak Italian. Yesterday was my first Salsa lesson! I wore pretty, glittery shoes with special, slippy dance bottoms and wiggled around an eighth avenue studio with about 13 other soon-to-be Salsa-ers. I don't think you ordinarily wiggle when dancing Salsa, but it was my first lesson. I mostly wiggled during the turns... SO MUCH FUN BLOG TRIBE!...
As I settle into sporadic blogging and away from daily posts, I've been embracing my hushing head. The way I put it to a mate of mine tonight, "FollowMeToNYC started so I could blog every day until I swung life as a Writer in Manhattan, I've done that, I don't have much more to say." "You can't stop yet," was the reply I received. "Not until the book finishes." The book continues to finish. I tried to "blog" last week, but it was a tornado of...
So I returned to New York City today after a weekend of writing in the country. I was greeted by cult members who painted my afternoon with things like triple olive, dirty vodka martinis and cigars on my balcony. Consequently, I napped around 6pm... that happened. Viva public holidays! Never the less, I awoke at midnight, wandered Peanut around 9th avenue, bought a cherry coke and came back to my apartment with one major thought: Graveyard...
The Gala was really fun! My girlfriend iced me last minute, fortunately I have a Chris who was by my side in a pinch! Viva la Cult! Fun things I did last night included seeing the Mayor, whose speech literally concluded with: "Gotta go, I have another function to go to. My girlfriend is waiting..." Apparently it was his birthday. So happy belated Mayor Bloomberg. I read your paper every day at work. Other fun Gala things included bombay and...