- If you see only one Broadway musical in your life, make it Avenue Q.
- Seeing someone escape the role of Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to play Christmas Eve in Avenue Q is kind of like seeing someone flee a totalitarian regime and go on to win a Nobel. (I would have loved to see Ann Harada in the role, but Ann Sanders did a fine job.)
- Jim Hanley’s Universe has an incredible selection of comics and a very helpful staff. Even my comics-hating partner bought something.
- Jim Hanley’s Universe needs to turn the damned music down already. Seriously. My comics-hating partner shoved his purchase into my hands and ran out onto the street because he couldn’t take it any more. Only my thick veneer of geekdom protected me.
- My comics-hating partner much preferred Midtown Comics, which looks kind of like a Pottery Barn. I liked it, too. The absence of crappy, loud music goes a long way for me.
- I need to make a list of odd books I’m looking for when I go urban shopping, because I completely forgot to grab copies of p.s. 238.
- I did not, however, forget to grab the first volume of Owly, and I’m so glad I did. Johanna is having an Owly contest, and you should run right over and enter.
- Subways are wonderful, wonderful things, particularly when the alternative is walking 30 blocks to buy cheese.
- If you’ve ever seen an Eric Bogosian play and thought (or hoped) that people don’t really talk that way, some do. We sat near them at lunch.
- The recently reopened Museum of Modern Art left me feeling strangely disoriented, which isn’t a bad thing for a museum.
Spending too much on comics, then talking too much about them