Sparky, allow me to pimp the Bryant Park Hotel literally across the street from the main branch of the NY Public Library.
I suspect I'm not cool enough to stay there.
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Connie Neil - Mar 01, 2016 11:10:39 am PST #16517 of 30003
brillig
-t - Mar 01, 2016 11:11:52 am PST #16518 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo, Dana!
No more long weekends for me for a while. Alas. I could ALWAYS use one.
I also have a headache. I don't think migraine, but maybe, I am getting some weird vision things with it. Took some Tylenol, but it's still here. I think I will try to get through the rest of the work day, though, there isn't much more of it. Maybe take some ibuprofin.
Steph L. - Mar 01, 2016 11:16:29 am PST #16519 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I took the meth sudafed for pounding sinuses, but the pressure in my right ear is telling me to go take some migrane meds before things get out of hand.
And then maybe a nap, because I'm finished with work for the day.
brenda m - Mar 01, 2016 11:36:48 am PST #16520 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I suspect I'm not cool enough to stay there.
I've stayed there (fashion week, no less) and nope. Few of us are. But they don't side-eye you about it. I'd stay there again for sure.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 01, 2016 11:41:12 am PST #16521 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's in my favorite bit of Manhattan architecture, the former American Radiator Building. [link] [link]
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Connie Neil - Mar 01, 2016 12:09:01 pm PST #16522 of 30003
brillig
Wow, I'd rather stay somewhere that I could see it from. The library's across the street, you say?
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 01, 2016 1:18:40 pm PST #16523 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yes, in the middle of Bryant Park.
Pix - Mar 01, 2016 1:21:48 pm PST #16524 of 30003
The status is NOT quo.
ND and I stayed at the Library once many years ago. Such a cool hotel!
meara - Mar 01, 2016 1:25:02 pm PST #16525 of 30003
Riding through Haight-Ashbury (waved in your direction Hec and JZ! But it was a v quick trip) I wondered...hippies and hitchhiking and all that seems so insane to me. Like, who would do that? But then I wondered if in 30 years people will be like "omg in the day you got in an Uber with just any old driver???"
DavidS - Mar 01, 2016 1:52:45 pm PST #16526 of 30003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wondered...hippies and hitchhiking and all that seems so insane to me.
Probably helps to remember that it wasn't just the counter culture that hitchhiked - it was common in lots of areas that weren't served by public transportation so large chunks of the populace did it as a matter of course. Jumping in the back of somebody's pick up truck on the way to town from your farm was the only way to get around.
Still, even then picking up a skeevy hitcher, or getting a ride from a creep was a well worn trope in crime stories.
::waves at meara zooming by::