On Friday night, my co-workers and I went to Mario Batali’s Otto for pizza and pasta and cured meats and gelato in flavors like OLIVE OIL and CREME FRAICHE. My friend Ash took awesome pictures of the meal, including some of me pretending to eat an entire plate of salad like a taco once we figured out there was a big slice of cheese underneath all the lettuce. No big deal.
photo by Ash at Not Bored in NY
Afterward, we went to see Prometheus in 3-D, and I thought we’d all agree that it was awwwwwwwwwwesomely entertaining, but it turns out that fully half of the group thought it was a plague on the rest of the franchise. So go see it if you want fun and suspense and gore, but don’t see it if you like films that don’t try to cram three movies’ worth of material into one.
Saturday, we met our friends Nik and Marko at PS1, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) baby sister in Queens. There were some crazy cool things there (a roomful of confetti being blown around by fans, a movie with animated LEGO people reading pathetic online conversations between real people), but because some of it was a little avant-garde, it was no surprise to hear middle-aged women saying things like, “This is as useless as Twitter.”
Wendy being constructed in the museum’s courtyard
Then we walked across the street to 5Pointz, a factory that’s been turned into a graffiti park where artists can spray on the weekends. We’ve probably seen it a hundred times from the 7 train but have never stopped to actually take it all in.
Obviously it brought out the badass in the boyz:
And then we went to a Bosnian restaurant to eat cevapi, the sausages Nik and Marko ate while growing up in Serbia. They were totally delicious,
and now I’ve threatened to take everyone out for Ohio food.
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Ohio food is pretty awesome, if what you’re referring to is Bob Evans. I could really go for their Wildfire BBQ chicken salad.
No joke.
Also, I could really go for that pizza and salad with cheese you speak of.
Make it happen.
Oh, so what you mean is you guys are going to Applebee’s next weekend?
I don’t think I can get into weird flavored ice cream/gelato. I mean, I would at least sample it, but it just seems wrong.
Didn’t know Jimmy Dean was Serbian ;-)http://www.mrgrocers.com/image/cache/data/Jimmy%20Dean%20Maple%20Sausage-250×250.jpg
I was toootally gonna say that looks like breakfast sausage.
Oh, yeah, he’s been maple-syrup-flavoring everything in sight over there since before Kosovo declared its independence.
I’m glad you checked out PS1 for me I could totally hangout forever in a roomful of confetti being blown about. Also, EXCELLENT thug-ish photos.
That graffiti park looks amazing – I bet it’s so cool to see in person. And how could it not being out the badass in you?
We saw Prometheus 3-D recently too and I loved it! Afterward we went home and watched Alien and Aliens back to back, and I gotta say, they’re just as good in my opinion.
Did you try the olive oil gelato? I’m intrigued.
yum! That food looks AMAZING!
Ohio food = Anything you can put on a grill.
That photo of the boyz is amazing… almost as amazing as that pizza.
This sounds like quite a fun outing! Not sure there is anything that cool in my area…
Great pictures! Sometimes, I want to say “Edible Photography”!
That pizza looks SO good… how much do you wanna bet I could eat the whole thing by myself?!
Trying to put it out of my mind, though…
*you are not hungry…
you are not hungry…*
The things people can do with spray paint… blows my mind! I can barely handle one color. On easy to reach vegetables.
I want that rapper pose reenacted w/ all 3 guys wearing chest-high white shorts and black socks. And panama hats.
Is that asking too much?
I don’t think there’s any way a room full of confetti could fail to make me happy.
Also, I can get behind any culture that eats sausages. And you can quote me on that.