We spent half of our week away in New York, visiting Noise Footprint, Ianqui, and others I am too lazy to make up pseudonyms for. They've both posted accounts of our doings there (as has Colliculus), but highlights for me included two new chocolate experiences: Brooklyn Chocolate Stout and MarieBelle hot chocolate. Be still my (alternately suppressed and stimulated) heart!

We also saw a photo exhibit on whiteness which was good though small. Not surprisingly, for some of the installations I had to read the explanation to figure out what the point was, since it just looked like a picture of some girls doing normal things. The same museum had a large exhibit of a photographer named Meatyard who seemed remarkably well-balanced, for a photographer named Meatyard.

I totally love New York. I see Chicago as New York Lite, with almost as much going on and almost as many endless blocks of wild and perplexing decor, odd individuals bred to survive only in their neighborhood, and stores of uncertain sustenance. New York is of course inferior in the areas of urban planning, manners and bar bathroom cleanliness, plus it's expensive as hell. These things are a comfort when I fly home and am again separated by the prairie from the Great Megalopolis in which I was reared.

But Delaware . . . I really don't miss that place. We went out for drinks with a group of girls who had never heard of The Onion.

Next up: New Year's! Or maybe Christmas in Chicago. I've got some great pics, whenever Photobucket is working again. 

¶ 9:31 PM