my mom visited me this past weekend from st louis and we got to hang out. it was a little cold walking around but we did manage to find something to do - we saw the sagmeister show at deitch, glad we showed up on saturday and not too much later, above is a picture of the actual wall of thousands of bananas they had installed, it was already a bit ripe and i have no idea how bad it must smell now. or good, depending on how much you like bananas.
there was also an inflatable monkey, which looked like it was made professionally. something is lost when that level of perfection is reached, a flavor that only exists in the made for the moment thing. later that night we saw many examples of this at the "kaiju big battel" event anney and keith invited us to-
although ostensibly a series of wrestling matches connected by loose storylines involving city-destroying monsters and the heroes that battle them, we found the show interesting just for the variety of costumes and monsters that they would drag out. The above lobster-looking thing was called "Call me Kevin", other monsters of note included Dust Bunny, Steam-Powered Boulder, and some type of surfing chicken. The costumes were really built for battle- these guys were actually wrestling in them, doing jumps and flips off of turnbuckles without pieces of tentacle or whatever coming off. i would guess it is some type of rubberized foam... my own predilection for making giant animal costumes to wrestle in was whetted by this event and made me wish for good health so i can get back to the important work of... making giant animal costumes to wrestle in.
sunday we relaxed, were meant to see chinatown's lunar new year parade but instead spent the day shopping for a tripod at B&H and watching movies at home. we did make it back to chinatown that evening for a little hot pot with ned, james, and mo... my suspicions were validated, grand szechuan has fresher veggies than hot pot city, there i said it... and the price was exactly the same , actually cheaper , $26 per person with tip and we all left full. unfortunately for james there were no live crabs this time, but perhaps next.
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