25 hours in NYC

Phew. Returned today from a 25-hr whirlwind trip to NY for a tech blogger function. Monday evening hopped on a red-eye, landed at 7am Tuesday and hit the ground running. Culminated in the event that took place in the posh basement of plush Flat Iron Lounge on 19th. But the best part of the trip, I would have to say, was having dinner at 1am at the Blue Ribbon on Sullivan Street in SOHO. Within 15 minutes we stopped by four Blue Ribbon locations, each a slight variation on the last. Two locations sit across the street from each other on Bedford Street, and two are located on Sullivan Street within blocks of each other; one is a sushi joint.

We started with raw oysters, then onto steak tartare (I feel gross about eating raw beef, but it was kind of tasty), fried chicken, but the queen of the evening was the Chocolate Bruno, a flourless chocolate cake flanked in triangle formation by one scoop each of vanilla, peach and chocolate ice creams.

Along the way I ran into a sad bicycle with only one handlebar:

After that it was off to bed for an hour before wrenching myself up to catch a 7:55 am flight. Landed at noon and went straight to the office, didn't leave until 6. What a day. I can't believe it is only Wednesday.

There are a few things, however, that I am looking forward to this weekend:

Saturday - Chronicle Books (one of my absolute favorite publishers - and local!) grand opening party, as well as the showing of Marnie at SFMOMA:

"Marnie stars Tippi Hedren as a disturbed kleptomaniac terrified of the color red and Sean Connery as the businessman who becomes obsessed with her. It has a psycho-sexual intensity that is rare even for Hitchcock. Burks started out producing special effects for Warner Bros., specializing in forced perspective miniatures, before becoming a full director of photography in 1949. Marnie is the last of 12 films that he shot with “the master of suspense.” Burks's clean and sharp, deep-focus approach came to define the classic Hitchcockian visual style."

Sunday - Isis & Big Business at Slim's! I definitely prefer GAMH to Slim's, but am so excited to see Isis again. Big Business was great with The Melvins...