Love Hangover

(Homemade Valentine detail, Feb 2011)

I don't know what my fellow QNY Bloggers did for their Valentine's but mine started with a fairly mellow evening of drinks at the Cellar Bar in the basement of the Bryant Park Hotel followed by an early dinner at Koi where we finished off some pretty spectacular specials with a rich, dark chocolate fondue and homemade donuts.  Cards were exchanged, his highlighting our 15th Valentine's Day together while mine, a homemade piece of calligraphy I'd been working on for some time, mentioned various platitudes of our days and nights together.

And then we got home and, quite unscripted, I was presented a little black bag holding a purchase from The Leather Man down on Christopher Street.  

So it is like this: after almost 16 years together, there is still room for Valentines, romance, and surprises...even in the most jaded corners of the city.

Fill His What???

Tonight at Gym bar I was celebrating a friend's birthday, and noticed the SNY coverage lingering on an interview with Seton Hall Women's Basketball Head Coach Phyllis Mangina.

The image stayed on screen long enough for me to take a quick snapshot. Best. Name. Ever.

True Story! No Photoshopping required! Go Pirates!

King Cole Bar at the St. Regis Hotel

Posted by Beau 
The snowpocalypse this past weekend wan't much of anything but the cold dregs and coming months of winter have me turning to the list of things I would like to do (or should want to do) in New York City before the end of my days.   Having drinks at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis Hotel in Midtown East was an easy choice.  It was not so much about having expensive cocktails in a dark-paneled, up-scale location where supposedly the Bloody Mary was introduced to the US, but rather the famous Maxfield Parrish mural backing the entire length of the bar.