I'm Coming...

[Dixon Carter Lee]

...to New York that is.

I haven't been back in almost five years. I understand it's as clean as Paris now and all the hookers are playing Meer Cats in "The Lion King".

I'll be in midtown for about five days. In December. I can smell the chestnuts on Fifth already. *sigh*

Any suprises, Sparky? Like, are they trying bicycle lanes again? How much is the subway now? Is Trump still trying to build the world's tallest ugly-ass building on top of the West Side Highway?

All my transplanted New Yorker friends out here in Hollyweird are thinking about going back east. Maybe not the Apple itself, but defintely back to where you can smell the ocean, the trees look happy, and everyone thinks "The Sopranos" is the best damn documentary film they've ever seen.

After I check in to the hotel the first thing I'm going to do is grab me a slice, walk two blocks to my old apartment, and stare mournfully at the window, wondering what the new asshole tenants have done to bathroom tiles I put in.

I suppose I don't really hate it in LA. But I am very much looking forward to going home, if only for a few days.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Hey Dix.....

Trump is unfortunately still unstoppable - my brother-in-law works for him (hates him too, as just about anyone who does work for him feels) and reports him to be a very good financial health - 5 years ago he was not - my brother-in-law even had to put down his own credit card once to buy fuel for a chopper taking the Donald back to AC. Anyway - not any more.

Subway still a buck fifty.

Rudy's got bung-hole cancer and very quiet lately.

Times Square has taken on ton's of Corporate big money - transforming it into a virtual Crystal City. I tend to like some of the older seedier stuff but - most is gone. Ya just can't buy a big dildo in this town anymore - gotta go to Jersey.

New Christmas lights up on Columbus Ave - look cool. New planetarium at the Natural History Museum - very cool! Big tree headed this way for 30 Rock.

Still pretty much the same though - I like it all - the good and the bad - walked through the park, on the paths at about 8pm the other evening - lots of people still out for strolls - Hansom's everywhere.

Best big city there is - if you can afford it. Been to LA a bunch - prefer nearly any beach area to anywhere else - like Laguna a lot. Like hot bikes (motorcycles) and hot rods - could live there I guess. But I do like the seasons.

Have fun when you get there - and keep in mind that I am always open for an invite - not for all here but I'm not afraid of "being seen." Up to you.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

The Gugg.....

has had a little mewseum down in SoHo for - since I've been here anyway - so not new to me. It's mostly a store - but a really cool store - great for X-mas gifts.

Maybe there's a new one or maybe they were re-building this older one I've been to.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Re: Hey Dix.....

Ya just can't buy a big dildo in this town anymore

Then how did Rudy get elected?

keep in mind that I am always open for an invite - not for all here but I'm not afraid of "being seen." Up to you.

I'll keep it in mind. I'm still not sure just how much time I'll actually have during the day, though the nights are all mine, and I plan to do a lot of haunting. Helloooooo Bleeker Street...!

 

[teresafannin]

Well darn it, no one ever comes to visit Texas. I would love to visit New York one of these days. One of "my kids" is going to school up there & got to make her first trip into the Big Apple. She was so excited, it made me want to visit even more. Have a great time, can those of us who can't take time off right now, live vicariously through you? If you ever get to DFW, we have lots of museums & an awesome performance hall right in my neck of the woods.

[Edited by teresafannin on 11-09-2000 at 11:59 AM]

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Hey Teresa?

Is there still a very, very strange, little resturaunt - there in the middle of the by D - downtown there - called - Enigma? You ever heard of it? Rich Arab dude's own it.

Every table, every place setting, every napkin - no menu (it was verbalized to you - and not matter what - every dish - even if the same food - was presented in a different artistic way. Hence the name Enigma. Too much! And it was.

About 6/7 years ago I had to take a business party of 8 there - I was instructed to impress - spent $4800 friggin' dollars there.

Just wonder if a place like that can survive.

Had Ostritch steak there - ummmm-good.

 

[CreamyLady]

DCL, how many of those transplanted New Yorkers are going to really leave?

I'm not anxious or anything. I'm just wondering how many west side parking spaces will open up.

 

[Skibum]

DCL, how many of those transplanted New Yorkers are going to really leave?

How many native Californians are thinking about leaving?

 

[Rosebud]

damn dcl...that is one thing i have fantasized about hearing you say....

 

[Naked Hunny]

Why doesnt Dixon ever come to Philly damnit!!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Philly? Oh yeah, that thing at the end of the Jersey Turnpike.

Actually, I like Philly. Parts of it, anyway. There are a couple of colleges there I used to perform at regularly.

Rosebud -- "I'm COMING!"

 

[CreamyLady]

How many native Californians are thinking about leaving?

One, Skibum. One at least.

 

[Isabella Thorne]

ha ha Dixon ... your thread title was very misleading ... you naughty boy! You should "come" to Canada soon, too.

ok now you kinda sound like Woody Allen in Annie Hall when he left L.A. to get back to his beloved New York City ... ahhhh the Big Apple ... I would love to visit ...

I wanted so much to go when Springsteen was playing Madison Square Gardens ... it was really crazy like for 14 nights or something ... and I would love to go to a taping of the Letterman show.

but I would also love to visit L.A. ... I wanna see movie stars ... lol ... no seriously ...
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I think, I think, I think, I think, I think it's the best,
when I'm locked in the middle of New York City on Central Park 'n West.

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know it's a mess,
but you've got to be crazy to live in the city, and New York City's the best.

~Ian Hunter~

[Edited by Isabella Thorne on 11-10-2000 at 10:13 AM]

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

"Why would I want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that I can make a right turn on a red light?"
Woody Allen on L.A. -- "Annie Hall"

 

[Isabella Thorne]

lol ... I actually remember that Woody Allen line cause ... guess what ... in Ontario you can make a right hand turn on a red light too!

I know you can't in Quebec ... and I guess you can't in New York either ...