This past weekend I took the Amtrak train to New York City for both business and pleasure. I took the train Thursday evening and enjoyed the 3 1/2 hour trip. It's a beautiful journey, until you get to New Jersey. Those of you who know me know my general disdain for the entire state of New Jersey. The view from the car doesn't help.
Thursday night I had dinner in NYC with three of my fraternity brothers, Tim, Jay and Brad (who was also in town on business). Friday I spoke to a small convention of college editors-in-chief along with a lawyer from the West Coast who does consulting work for the SPLC. Friday evening I moved from my Morningside Heights Hotel (which my room, incidentally, was truly New York Small) to my friend Jay's apartment on the Upper East Side.
We spent the weekend drinking, eating good food and generally doing New York things. Although there are no pictures, the camera battery died after taking this one above. Jay and I went to see "A Chorus Line" on Broadway, which for those of you who don't know, is about a casting a Chorus Line on Broadway. What a coincidence! It was great. I love Broadway shows.
Sunday morning I picked up a Lox bagel at a deli a few blocks from Penn Station and ran to the train. While eating that bagel, the quintessential Sunday morning meal for me, I finished reading a book "Under the Banner of Heaven," by one of my favorite authors, Jon Krakauer. The book is about violent Mormonism and the general history of the religion. Let me tell you, that will make you think twice about voting for Mitt Romney. Although I will say that if someone had written the same kind of historical novel about my religion (or any religion, since Mormonism is the true modern American religion), I believe many readers would think similarly.
My little sister Marylee is coming to visit this weekend, I just found out. and next weekend I'm set return to New York for a friend's bachelor party.
More later.
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