It's been a great weekend so far. Went to KOP with Jon and Diane on Friday evening. I got a couple of sweet candles from Illuminations.
Saturday morning I took Xena to the park in the rain. She loved every minute of it. Later I met up with Jon & Diane for lunch at the Minar Palace. The restaurant is actually moving to another location because their lease is up. They've had the restaurant in that same place since '91. So I'll have to watch for where they move to... great Indian food.
Then we went to the Rittenhouse Art Fair. Lots of great stuff. Some amazing surrealist paintings that I want but could never afford. Also saw this crazy watercolor of Fergie (the Barman, not the Duchess of Pork). This comes up later...
Saw Greg as we were wrapping up our tour of the Fair. He mentioned going to see Michael Ian Black at the
TLA. I'd thought about this but still hadn't made up my mind. I had also been thinking about heading to my buddy Pete's house where they were having a "
Time Party." By the time I went back to the house, I decided to go over to the TLA and pick up a ticket.
I ran into Greg again on South Street. The TLA wanted a crazy surcharge for paying with a card, so we headed to the Wawa. Ran into Steve Cohen on the way back. He was going as well. I had also heard that Corey was going. Went and got the tickets and then Greg and I headed over to Tommy Guns, grabbed a bite and talked shop for awhile.
He went to get some work done and I headed home. Hung with the Bean for a bit, changed and headed back to South Street. Connected up with Steve and we hit Manny Browns for a few pre show brews. Went back over to the TLA and went in. I met up with Corey inside. He introduced me to his friend Sean from NYC.
The show was great. Rob Cantrell opened and had a really fun set. Then Michael came out, and was nuts. I don't know how, but he managed to make Nazis and lampshades made out of people really damn funny.
We hung back after the show. It turns out that Sean works door for a club in NYC where
Stella plays regularly... so she knows Michael pretty well. We all connected up and she introduced Corey and I to Michael. He seemed a bit timid, as there were tons of people outside waiting for him and screaming his name. So after a quick goodbye, Corey, Sean and I headed over to Ritas. Sean gave me a drink of her lemon Misto. All I can say is... damn. That was good.
We headed over to Fergies and saw a band upstairs. Well worth the $3 cover. We spent a significant amount of time trying to determine whether one of the band members was a man or woman. We thought we had it nailed as a woman. Then he spoke... and our minds were officially blown.
I saw Fergie and chatted with him a bit about the watercolor. We started talking with John the bartender and had many bottles of Chimay. That stuff is like silky crack.
Apparently there had been a party there earlier that evening, and there were tons of balloons. Okay... this was really John the bartender's fault. He started it. We scribbled little cryptic messages and threats and random things on notes, tied them each to a balloon and launched them out the window. We must have launched at least a dozen. Man, I really wish I could see the people that find those. It's likely most will end up on a roof or in a tree or something though. So much fun. We were all laughing so hard.
So at this point, i.e. closing time, we are sufficiently drunk. We headed to the Midtown II (while singing Mahnamahna along the way) to grab some much needed 2am food. We hung at the diner for quite awhile and headed out. I walked them back to Corey's place and said goodbyes to them. Sean is just wonderful and I love that girl. So incredibly funny. I headed home and then chatted with Kennedy a bit (who when I txt'd her was still amazingly up) and then crashed somewhere around 4am.
I got up around 10 this morning and have been getting lots of work, cleaning and laundry done. Fakeout session tonight at 7 in West Philly.
