create something beautiful

Yesterday my mom and her good friend Rosemary came down for a visit. Tom joined us for the jaunt as we zipped down and up and down and up again through Manhattan, hitting up some very essential favorite places. First, to Smac for some of the best macaroni and cheese in existence. This time, I tried the goat cheese with olives, spinach and mushrooms. I really think by the end of the year, I’ll have tried every set dish they have on their menu. I’m almost there already if you include trying dishes other people have ordered. I only have about 2 or 3 left to go.

After that, we headed uptown to the Whitney Museum to see what exhibits were going on. Some really “interesting” stuff going on up there right now. We took a tour of the Weiner exhibit on the 5th floor, and if we hadn’t, I could never have appreciated it as much as it should be. It’s some out there, over-thought, ultra-simplistic looking stuff. One of the most interesting parts of the exhibit were the museum’s attempts to immerse the entire building in this retrospective, including putting some of it outside, and even making the elevator a part of it, which most people wouldn’t realize unless they read about it or took the tour upstairs. Examples:

After we got all cultured up, we down to SoHo to visit Rice to Riches where we actually saw Michael Rapaport fighting with his girlfriend and looking verrry angry about whatever they were discussing.

I snapped a quick picture of some interesting graffiti before bidding the gals adieu.