Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Spidey Went Bliiiiind!

Sorry, Adam is currently playing Spider-Man (yes, with a hyphen, ahem *copyeditor*) 3 on the Wii and apparently either Spidey went blind or Manhattan finally fell into the pits of Hell. Or it's a computer glitch. Whichever.

So, it's been a really wild and wooly few weeks here in the Big Apple. Back in the middle of April, Adam and I enjoyed a very lovely Passover evening (Adam spent the day at the Comic-con, as you can see by the amusing photos on our website). I bought many of the ingredients at the farmer's market in Union Square, including the carrots and parsnips for the matzos ball soup, and potatoes for the mashed potatoes. So the only carrots available were these gargantuan suckers which I assumed would be bitter, but I bought them anyway, three of them. I peeled two at home and quickly realized that one would be enough for the soup, so I decided to just eat the other one for a snack.

Let me tell you, that was the best carrot I have ever eaten in my entire life. Anyone who tells you a carrot is just a carrot, has never tasted a carrot like this. It wasn't crunchy, it was crispy. It was sweet as honey, it was absolutely divine. I wholeheartedly advise all of you to visit farmer's markets in your area as often as possible. It will revolutionize your thinking about food.

I spent the last weekend of April in Philadelphia for Jessi's bridal shower. We all had a great time, and everyone told me how "sophisticated" and "cosmopolitan" I looked. Hoo-ray. Wait until they see me gnawing on a carrot the size of a pipe wrench. That's what I call "sophisticated."

Jessi looked beautiful and happy, and I can't wait for the wedding at the end of this month. I'm making her the coolest gift ever, and I can't wait to see her open it. A lot of my old friends will be coming to the wedding, too, so I just know what a memorable weekend that will be! Weddings are really reunions in disguise.

This past weekend was very productive, indeed. Friday night we had a visit by our old/new friends Jen and Garrett, UMBC Theatre chums of ours that we literally hadn't seen in five years. I came upon Jen's old university website by accident, found her e-mail, sent her a quick message not even expecting her to write back, got a message back from her within the hour, found out she LIVES IN BROOKLYN LESS THAN THREE MILES AWAY FROM US WITH HER FIANCEE GARRETT, and BOOM, three days later we're having a birthday dinner with them in Williamsburg and we've got new friends. New/old friends. Now we see them all the time. They are fabulous. We played Wii and Cranium at our place and drank beer and laughed and laaaaughhhed. This was following another the weekened before with them and a bunch of others at a karaoke club in midtown...Adam and I performed a wicked rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that really got the party going...

Anyway, I digress. They are truly wonderful. Saturday we shopped 'till we dropped, and Sunday was at home (a little bit closer to the end of my thesis and a few notes learned from Bach's cello suite #1) until that evening when we went to Carroll Garden's to a place called Zaytoons where we ate the most intensely orgasmic meal of Middle Eastern cuisine ever in creation. I had falafel and babaganoush, Adam had lamb shawarma and hummus...and violins were playing on fluffy clouds with angels singing...what? Oh, yeah. Sorry. So, it was really good. Really, really good. It was the kind of meal that makes you take a deep breath, look around you, and feel truly lucky to be alive. Because the sun is shining brightly, and the falafel was just so crunchy...

Peace, y'all.