celebwatch 2005!

Jason Bateman at 1st and 1st (the nexus of the universe).

Celebwatch 2005!

Peter Dinklage, walking a dog longer than he is tall.

celebwatch 2005!

Mandy Patinkin in the audience of a performance of Particularly in the Heartland. I sang with him! Well, the whole audience sang together, so technically it's true.

Celebwatch 2005! A ragged looking

Celebwatch 2005! A ragged looking Tim Robbins (is there any other kind?) making a cellphone call outside the brill building.

celebwatch 2005!

so last monday, the 12th, i found myself with like 6 hours to kill in manhattan. it is worth noting that i didn't actually have 6 spare hours, but i had to stay in manhattan and had nothing to do for 6 hours. so i mostly wandered around the west village.

i like the west village. it is all quaint and shit. i went to corner bistro which is still awesome, even though shake shack is now my favorite burger (but it's closed now anyway). for some random reason i decided to see if i could locate the entrance to chumley's, which i completely failed to do. i didn't even see the front entrance, let alone the super secret side entrance. i wasn't planning to actually go there, i was just bored and wanted to see where it was. but nearby i saw a completely different doorway, pictured above, which i found extremely entertaining so it's time for you to play what's wrong with this picture...

i also ventured a little further north. i walked past the future site of il posto, the new mario batali/joe bastianich restaurant. didn't realize it's right under the highline. that area is gonna be INSANE when they redo the highline is all i'm saying. Then, just for the hell of it i walked through chelsea market (which is right across the street from il posto). This proved worthwile for two reasons...

first was that i saw alton brown just kind of hanging around. he looked like he was waiting for the various people around him to finish setting up a shot, except there was no camera equipment. for the record, food network's main offices and studios are upstairs in that same building. i almost stopped and asked him why he told people to brine their own turkeys instead of just buying a kosher one, but i think i know the answer to that now which is that kosher turkeys have more pin feathers to pull out and it's easier to brine a turkey than pluck it. but in any case, alton brown is awesome.

but even more fun was the junior high band that was randomly playing in the hall. most of the kids were playing like trumpet or clarinet, but there was one boy playing electric bass and wearing a ramones shirt, and a girl playing drums in a led zeppelin shirt. they were totally rock and roll.