After the weekend I am back to motivating myself to do anything while suckers around the globe are at their jobs. (Sorry friends!) In the meantime, since that's not working, here are some things I've seen:
1. Friday night, after a long week of making moves (cough), R^2 and I partook of an adventure - the first of many newly dubbed Cocktail Crawls. Since I was so busy, I left it to R squared to put together the agenda. Places we hit up included, but were not limited to, White Star and the Randolph. White Star will probably be ok after they resolve the lighting and bathroom ventilation issues. After a few minutes under their glaring lights, we were off to the Randolph. This is the place where the bartender (who, one can hardly believe, can stand himself) once mistook my drink order to be me outing myself to him, and I have been unable to get a drink there ever since (not that there is anything wrong with that.) In between these two bars, we saw the worst art opening ever. The art was so foul and skill-less that all the patrons milled outside acting busy in the misting rain next door to a fish outlet. It's time for that guy to think about doing something else. (Yeah, yeah. Everyone's a Critic.) Good times, though.
2. Three weeks worth of 90210 and the best line in Beverly Hills' history (far out besting Donna's unforgettable: "How are we ever going to tell Steve that his dad owns a sweat shop?!") when Navid says to the junkie: "..then you got to the 7th grade and you got that pilot sitcom and it was like you didn't even know me anymore..."
3. Three minutes of The Notebook. To borrow a phrase my dad coined in response to another Nicholas Sparks adaptation, I'll be in the car.
4. Eliot Stabler!!!
5. An interesting approach to marketing coffee:

7. Zack and Mrs. Kim writing their hit single "Commotion."