Post Feast: Happy Labor Day weekend!

Got back from the show pretty late of course. This blog is already in danger of becoming a dylan tribute site, so i will comment minimally on the show: it was fucking cool. I still wish he would share his words a little more generously, and i kind of understand the people who want him to pick up a guitar now and then (though as far as i'm concerned, if he wants to play the keyboard and let stu kimball and denny freeman do the strumming and the picking, who are we to argue?), but it was a damn good show. Lot of jamming, great arrangements, and he did 'visions of johanna,' which was a super treat.

Since i did get back late, i didn't get a totally early start yesterday. All that really meant is that i skipped the gym (and, well, i guess writing here, but i'm not looking at this as something i necessarily want to squeeze into my weekends). Got to alexis's place in harlem around 2, and we had the whole afternoon to prepare the dinner. Really good time, lots of work, but alexis is a good cooking partner. We talked about what she's doing in minneapolis, and about the dating we've done over the last several months (such as it is - neither of us has been doing much of it lately).

[Bejamin becker just took the third set from agassi - looking pretty grim for andre. But hey, in other news (and speaking of minneapolis) the twins are doing some damage to the yankees.]

Alexis is kind of wonderful; really fun doing this kind of thing with her. Wish she were around more - hope she finds her rhythm bouncing back and forth to the mini apple. The food was really good: the soup was fucking awesome; salad was delish; mushroom sauce didn't thicken quite right, but we tweaked it into a perfectly fine complement to some first rate ravioli; pork loin was on point, well attended by the roast veggies; the cakes may have been a wee overcooked, but were unbelievably good, notwithstanding.

Kind of like that word "notwithstanding." Doesn't it mean pretty much the same thing as "withstanding?" Sort of like "flammable" and "inflammable."

Met some very cool people, from all walks of life. Love to meet interesting new folks. Kind of funny to me that the straight guys were talking about a capella singing groups, and the gay guys were talking about projectile vomiting. That may have been a first, in my experience.

So today i had a bitchen workout at the gym, i'm hanging out to see the rest of this match, then it's out into this BEAUTIFUL day. Happy Labor Day weekend it is.