HowDEE Gang!! LIVE FROM NY SATURDAY NIGHT !!!
Immediately yesterday took daughter over to NYC. We'd planned going to a Museum or 2, window shop, lookit art galleries, eat a nice meal at a good Mexican place we know around Uptown, then drive downtown to Greenwich Village for sidewalk cafe espresso dessert with a music or comedy show next - maybe even get our palms read make a night of it! But all parking had filled up near Museums, Change Of Plans Time. So drove 2 Midtown (42nd Street) instead.
Omen: on the way, we saw Diana Ross waiting to cross the street; and She Smiled Back!! (if you're reading this Diana, remember us in the silver wagon? Hi again!) Who could believe that woman is 60, what a beauty! Another NY Star Sighting of her makes 2 now, That Was Nice...
Kept driving downtown watching the backbeat play itself, Digging It As Always, rhythm of the crowd matching the music in the car, a Coupla Swells. At Midtown, parked the car in a pay lot (no towaway for me thanks, twenny bucks is worthit) then decided to Take The High Road with The Fun Folks On Broadway instead of the quicker way walking down 8th then up, heading for Times Square Tickets -got plentya time. ("If we get seperated by any chance, come right back to this parking lot or beep me tell me where you are, Mom sez). Justazsoon's we started walking we're one among so many in that fabulous Zoo of a NY Crowd on a Saturday Night; U know there's at least one person from every country in this whole world and others within 10 blocks of that very spot. Jammed with people, moving slow, no hurry; some clusters are hugging hello while others are hugging goodbyes. Walking slow right in the groove with 'em gives time to try to guess what language these folks to the right are speaking while grooving on another couple yonder left out walking with their 3 year old twins and their pet boa constrictor wrap-around (look who Isn't on a leash writhing, LOL). Window shopping, gaping at the minigizmos, went in a store where the guy told me to come back in the week when the puter salesman is around, he'll help get me it all hooked up. Yeah right thanks, i'll come back next week, bye. Back in the streetcrowd, mooooooving along slow, cacophony of noise feels good on the eardrums. Everyone's polite, no shoving, doubleplusgood. Change perspective to Microcosmic: lookidat beautiful orange sunset down Broadway between purple canyons of building monoliths over giant flashing neon signs in every color of the rainbow; the folks on the street look like ants!! Back to Macrocosmic Perspective "watch yer pocketbook honey" Mom sez....window shopping, chucklin at hagglings over whether the $50 Rolexes are stolen or fakes when "gimmedat Rolex for $5 or i'm gonna call a cop and tellim you stole it" "WHAAAT Y U Mofo howabout i'll just tear your face off forya...." Uh-Oh Alert it sounds 2 loud on buzzwaves suddenly so the herd moooooves along Very Much Faster Away From That Scene All As One "don't look back honey geddinouddahere" Mom sez, moooooovin' on along now didn't hear any pops or screams, whshew.
Gettin'where yer goin' gotta play yer own team .... no matter what you do taxis'll blast horns 'n curse atcha... MVP One for The Pedestrians Wasn't Driving this time LOL.
At one point we walked behind a newscaster filming the CBS evening news show, we were probly onit for a second. Times Square Tickets had a block-long line mmmoooooovviing slow, fuggeddaboudit, time to head 2R grazing pasture at fave place Trecolori Midown, earlybirds we R relaxed.
Knew we'd be afoot for hours, mite as well enjoy a
California Martini at one of the few places Back East who knows how to make 'em (rub the glass with the orange zest, a drop of orange flower water a drop of vermouth, very cold). I could drive OK after one cocktail before dinner of course if i had to....but in NY they'll impound yer car if stopped and they smell booze on yer breath, so best stay away fromit unless the night is young w/ plentya time.
Finished our dessert at 7, powder room then out by 7:10, perfect timing to get last-minute Boxoffice Tickets for A Show. Moooving Faster now covered 6 Blocks 3 boxoffices in 20 minutes....Cabaret, Miss Saigon last minute seats gone; Smoky Joes Cafe- BINGO got the last 2 seats left. So SJC it was, wish you coulda been there with us but smokeyjoescafe.com Cyberly's Next Best! A Great Show! R&B Oldies! Reminded me of great old times at The Brooklyn Fox Theatre, Murray The K, Supremes Onstage....
Aaaaaaah, The Flow O' The Evening!!
My Daughter The MetalKid liked it too, she's not so hard@ss into only her onekinda peer music as just a year ago... while i like her MetalPunk stuff more the more i hear it.... Synergy At Last!
So great 2 read yer great Techride posts this (late) morning (yeah i slept til noon, aaaaaaah, la-di-da!).
Was THINKING (ur post made me think, Blue, as always...." Why not try calling PA next time there's an ipo from Vulcan.... maybe he'd give some out, hey U never know. I agree the giveaways to pals izzin't exactly fair to the newcomin' shareowners... i guess the brokers giving the ipos to preferred customers that ask for 'em nicely isn't fair either then, in a way. But if i could get 'em i wouldn't turn 'em down for the sake of the others On The Outside Looking In. I'd just say Thank You for The Gift, like i said for my ipo shares from the broker (midlevel gift).
I really must ADMIT if I had a Company doing an ipo i'd be on My Team then, would want to get some to my pals at the cheapest price because it's my company and my shares. In a way it's fair from their standpoint the Co. can favor it's own folks a bit. Maybe it's not just Henry Winkler's Name callinup for 'em (publicity of him buyinit sells shares mebbe), but i would hope most of those shares would be sold direct to bizpals who helped 'em to bring it to the point of Offering shares as a way of saying Thanks.
I'm gonna Ask For Some Next Time, 2C what happens...
Squeezin' Lemonade Fromdishyar Lemon of Knowledge ... yep it made my mouth puckerup all sour too when i read about the giveout of Co. shares to famous names and favorite pets... a lemon 2B squeezed for lemonade mebbe, hmmmmm? It wouldn't be fair if i could get 'em and other folks couldn't, unfair but "what it is".
Personally i've been ripped off plenty, had plenty heartbreaks etc. from life. So when the goodies come my way honestly i say Thanks, cuz the other guy'll get the goodies times when i won't.
Life Ain't Fair. As much fun as we had in NY last nite, dinner at a swell brickwall Trattoria, going to a Broadway Show, driving there enjoying the sights and sounds and comfort of our own space, parking the car safe, it cost big bucks. 2B specific it was a $250 evening for 2, it's an experience on a level many folks won't ever see in their whole lives. I'm not any better than them, just luckier. Giving daughter same advantages i enjoyed's all i'm doing.
Whenever i go to NYC i get sad & feel guilty just for being Lucky Enuf 2B Born as Me, doing relatively well and having
a nice life. Our class rank in that Times Square Crowd (ez 2 figger it just by looking around) was nice Up There past the mid-line. Impossible to be a compassionate person and get through walking there without givin' out some dollars a($ cautiously givenout from the pocket; never open yer purse on the street honey, Mom sez) to beggars who There But For The Grace of God Go I.
Beggin' for Co. ipo's wouldn't bother me, gonna try it when one comes out i want next time, whattheheck. What i've always gotten just handed to me, expecting it as my due from the git-go as a Bitty Baby and maintaining it on whatever scale is possible at the time (love, beauty, cleanliness, good fresh food, temperate climate, doctor cures sickness, etc.) is what many folks wish for all their lives and never achieve. i wish i could make everyone in the whole world realize such (relative) wealth as i posess but that's impossible.
So, Blue, after i think about it i'm not so mad about those ipo giveaways as i was when i first read it. I'll just try asking for 'em, maybe they'll have some leftovers and give 'em to me! And maybe not.
Valuable knowledge it's possible to get 'em from the Company beforehand, in either case.
It's An Omen....Because Diana Ross smiled back so casual and friendly as i drove by her.
She'd know and see plenty of people all the time who never heard of ipos too... plenty of 'em were walking right under that huge ticker on Times Square that i always watch for my stocks to go by on (afterhours prices are onit now too). Lots of folks, maybe would know what an ipo is but wouldn't imagine such an opportunity to increase money ever coming their way; sounding same to them as winning the lottery. But we know ipo isn't The Lottery; it's another well-chosen investment carrying some risk.
One-in-a-zillion chance Lottery Ticket = All or Nothing; odds R better on a good ipo!
Some get a shot at it First, others last...
yep eeeeeew yuk The Lemon, not being First in line.
909s On Lemonade,
Joan |
