09.22.05
All TV and no sleep makes Leopoldo a dull boy
For anyone who travels to New York, check out JetBlue and find out if they fly out of your city. Friendly people, more legroom, leather seats, more legroom, 40 channels of Direct TV, more legroom and cheaper than other airlines… and oh yeah, more legroom. I caught the red-eye out of PDX at midnight and into JFK at 8am but did not manage to sleep at all during the flight. I did catch a lot of Kids in the Hall late on Comedy Central as well as a few Iron Chef episodes, but no ZZZs. Time for a side-track: I like Iron Chef a great deal. Fun show, great looking dishes, but it is a bit hard to watch for me since I am allergic to seafood and it is therefore rather disgusting to me and hmmm, lets see what the battle lineup for this week is:
Freshwater Shrimp
Crab
Cod Battle
Escargot Battle
Battle Carp
Octopus Battle
Battle Oyster
Dry Abalone Battle
Curry Powder Battle
And when for some miracle they DO manage to have a non-seafood main ingredient what do BOTH chefs do? “Oh dear god, look at this poor potato.. no good by itself, lets cover it with fish sauce and caviar and shark fins, and crab meat! Yes, now it can be eaten!” *sigh*. OK enough of that.
Landed in New York a good half an hour early, then lost twenty of those minutes waiting on the tarmac at JFK and the last 10 waiting for the luggage to be brought out. I do have to wonder, given that baggage handlers do the same job at each airport why does it take five minutes at PDX and SEA for luggage to come out and thirty minutes at JFK and LGA? Better equipment? Better layout? Different work ethic? Just asking.
A $7 quick monorail ride (SkyTrain) to Howard Beach and a fast moving A-train express into Manhattan and next thing you know I am in the big apple some 24 hours awake and still not sleepy… at least not feeling it. I did of course spend most of the rest of the day napping.
In the evening we went out to the Paris Theater (a very nice movie house next to what used to be the Plaza Hotel and is now the Plaza Apartments construction zone) and saw a new British film Separate Lies (2005). A review of it will (given some downtime) come to Film Roar but here is a preview of the review: “Given the way the British go about flirting, it is amazing they manage to reproduce”. Dinner was with the ex-Colombian ambassador to Peru at La Bonne Soupe which has a charming 2nd floor people watching balcony and some pretty decent soup.
Victor said,
September 22, 2005 at 2:31 pm
I love La Bonne Soupe! The first time I was there I was probably around 11 or 12 and thought I was ordering a burger. When my ‘burger’ came it was a meat patty covered in some nasty looking green sauce. Ever since that day I just love pesto, oh yeah and the soups aren’t bad there either. There is a good Japanese place across the street from there. At least it used to be there. Enjoy your trip.