After Sales Conference I went to my favorite old hotel, The Pickwick Arms. What? Oh yeah, for the last few years it's been The Pod Hotel, famous for having the smallest rooms in Manhattan. I love the place, and wow, the neighborhood around it is totally different from when I first started going there in 2004.
I slept in on my first day of vacation, then ventured on south to Film Forum, seeing this bar sign along the way, which made me miss my dog, Macy Grey:
Now I LOVE Film Forum, and first went there years ago to see a restored print of Gojira, the original, Japanese version of Godzilla that you'd never see on TV.
I had seen Metropolis before as it's one of my favorite films, but recently a man in Argentina uncovered nearly a half-hour of the missing footage! When the footage would appear on the screen, others in the audience, including myself, were gasping and crying a little with happiness! And at the end of the film, as usual, I cried like a big baby.
After too much chicken parmigiana and too much wine at Mimi's Restaurant (another old favorite of mine!) I slept in AGAIN and then journeyed north to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to check out the American Woman exhibit. Here are two photos I took before I got in trouble:
Fortunately the Met offers this video clip of the exhibit so you don't feel TOO left out:
Now you're probably wondering why I say 'Busman's Holiday.' Well, when I wasn't out and about, I was sitting inside eating a bagel, looking up things to do, checking Facebook and Twitter and work email, reading a book, or shopping in bookstores, including Forbidden Planet with the awesome Vanessa and awesome Wei. We didn't need photos of that, now, did we?
