09.29.05
A History of Bagels
At last a good bagel! I knew where to find good home made bagels up on the upper east side but have had no luck finding one near my dad’s apartment… until today. It is a bit of a walk up to Broadway and 80th but just as the bagels were emptying out the bin you could see them pulling fresh ones out of the cooker as replacements. Victor: looks like you might get your (mostly) fresh bagels after all. Figure a 4pm pickup and a 2am (EST) arrival in Portland so they will be a few hours old but about as fresh as New York bagel as you can get. Any requests?
I got to enjoy my warm bagel with cream cheese as I waited for Circuit City to open so I could buy an Ethernet cable for my dad’s new Airport installation. The rest of the morning was devoted to installing an airport station, airport card, DVD writer, new hard drive and doing a whole lot of maintenance on a couple of G4 PowerMacs. Gotta love how accessible Apple makes their machines.
Lunch was a warmup of Colombian food brought back from the restaurant on Tuesday after which dad and I went down to Broadway to look for rush tickets of Monty Pythons SpamAlot… yeah right. It seems the show is sold out months in advance. There was a queue for people waiting to buy cancelled tickets but that was already quite large. With that plan in the can we switched to plan B: an advanced showing of A History of Violence (2005). The movie is pretty good, very violent (but then again what do you expect from a David Cronenberg movie?) but with a tremendous performance by Viggo Mortensen that alone makes it worth watching.
Mari said,
September 30, 2005 at 12:40 pm
OK, my name is not Victor, but fresh New York bagels would make me consider changing it for the day *grin*
I just love reading about your travels even though they make me envious beyond belief… when I grow up, I want to be a globe-trekker like you
GeekRoar » Spam, spam, spam spam, Renoir, spam, spam, spam! said,
October 3, 2005 at 10:32 am
[...] After a lunch at the museum we had time for a nap and then onto the main event! On Thursday in GeekRoar » A History of Bagels I wrote: [getting tickets to] Monty Pythons SpamAlot… yeah right. It seems the show is sold out months in advance. [...]
Victor said,
October 5, 2005 at 10:07 am
I thought I was reading your blog more often than I actually was, because I just saw this entry today. Thank you for the bagels (and the Peter Luger Sauce!!!). I had a bagel this morning. Nothing beats a New York bagel. I couldn’t stop smelling the bag. Thanx.