Last Sunday Ben called and told me he was going to come through Philly, so I got super-stoked for a night of hanging out with Ben and all of his awesomeness. He had to drive 10 hours from NC to Philly in his 1980 diesel VW rabbit. When he called from the road to clarify directions he could barely hear me over the Rabbit's healthy rumble.
Anyhow, Ben arrived without drama and I made egg sandwiches for old times' sake. We went to Johnny Brenda's then came home to have a fire in the ol' fire apparatus (well, new to me)even though it was cold as all-get-out. At some point I decided to join Ben on his day trip to NYC, so I called out of work for a few days and booked a ticket on Megabus, and at 6am the following morning we were off to NYC.
Ben had a few meetings and plenty of time in-between to check out galleries, eat, walk around, etc. We met up with a friend of a friend and spent the night at her place in Brooklyn, after hanging out at a gallery opening (it turned out to be more of a bar with a PowerPoint presentation going, but hey). We headed back to Manhattan the next day, ate good Vietnamese food, checked out the
largest camera/video store in the world, and made our way to lower Manhattan for another meeting. Before we knew it, we were hanging out near the bus stop waiting to go back to Philly.
Honestly, it was a lot of fun: I miss Ben and Alexis a lot, and ditching work to hang out with Ben was just what I needed.I miss him (again) already.
In other news, the idiot that burnt a copy of the Qur'an really has me down. There is so much hatred in this world, and when people who call themselves Christians do stuff like this, it makes me feel like the entire human race is terrible. But in response to that I listened to
Matisyahu's track "One Day" about 6 times and my hope for the human race is slowly being restored.
Well, this has been quite a ramble with no pics. Worst blog post yet!
