November, But Not All of It

If you follow my socials, you probably know I had a rather amazing Thanksgiving adventure. But Thanksgiving is not the only thing there is in November! Let me show you other great stuff about the month!

November 2: Sometimes the weather isn’t on your side and Halloween parties have to be moved to the first weekend in November! Kristin threw a Tim Burton-themed party and I went as Batman. Please trust that I have a Batman t-shirt on because I did buy it for the party.

November 3: Had a nice walk through Inwood Park, met a caterpillar.

November 8: Jesse organized a food-crawl through Flushing. Ate at a lot of places I’d never been to before, had some spectacularly spicy noodles in the basement of a mall.

November 11: Hosted an FHE with a pretty strong turn out.

November 14: For Owen’t birthday I went and checked on the chaos that was the failed launch of the latest Aime Leon Dore New Balance collection. Sometimes you’ve just got to accept you’re not getting a cool pair of shoes.

November 19: Can art and lights at the mall by work, pizza with Victoria. I tell you the ketchup-based chop cheese pizza at Lions and Tigers and Squares is NOT for the faint of heart and Sauce is a totally underrated chill place to eat and hang.

November 21: the second biggest thing to happen in November was Mom and Dad’s visit to New York. It’s crazy, while they were here I didn’t even know I was about to have a major Thanksgiving adventure. “Life comes at you fast”, isn’t that what they say? Anyway: Night 1 we balled out of control at Babbo and it was great. Too dark in there for good pictures but let me just say that the waiter stopped taking our order before we even got to entrees. He didn’t know the ambitions we had.

November 22: Dinner at Leña at Hudson Yards, but first: a climb up the Vessel in the cold wind!

November 24: This was big. Got up, rented a car in the West Village, drove out to Oyster bay to visit Sagamore Hill (Teddy Roosevelt’s house), walked to the water, checked out Flushing Meadows Park and the Queens Museum, then had a smash-hit dinner at Mu Ramen in Long Island City and, after dropping off the car, finished off with a little Big Gay Ice Cream.

November 25: After church I showed Mom and Dad Camp and it was absolutely out of control. Then we got burgers at the Usual, corn at Cafe Habana, and a dessert of mushroom salad, fried chicken, and potato chips & ice cream at Oiji. And then I guess that was that for a great visit!

November 27: Here are photos I took after work after having finalized my plans and ticket for an amazing adventure. Halfway home from work I’d realize I had let my passport at the office. So I went back and got it, there was nothing to it, actually.

Ok, hope to be back soon with a Mexico City post! That was the adventure, if you didn’t already know!

October!

Okay, October, let’s go!

October 4: After so many burgers, finally tried the chicken sandwich at the Usual. It’s great! But only get it if you’ve already had 5 of the cheeseburgers. Then after a little Soho walking I checked on the NY Comic Con crowd by the Javitts Center.

October 5-9: Dusky view, made tacos for General Conference, went to Lincoln Center and saw a play about Lyndon B Johnson.

October 10: Went and checked out the new UWS Daily Provisions with Tara. Weird branch, runs out of crullers by 9am and doesn’t have hot chocolate. Shrug! And then here’s some pictures of other stuff from that day.

October 11: A visit 16 years in the making! The Pages came to New York and we celebrated by over-walking, my bad! My punishment? A delicious dinner at Parm!

October 12: This was big — Ned got me invited to a big pizza cookout way deep in Pennsylvania. And we judged the pumpkin carving contest, too!

October 13-14: Another big thing - met up with Mom and Dad in Philadelphia, but my camera battery died before lunch on the 14th. So you don’t have to look at any pictures of food or museums. It is probably for the best.

October 17 - 18: Oh, this and that, including a trip to Red Hook to try the Red Hook Tavern’s newly famous burger.

October 20: An extremely quick visit to check out the MoMA expansion. Glad I took it because I haven’t had a chance to go back yet.

October 21 - 24: More walking around pics bleed into a visit to Kopitiam and the New Museum with Natalie and Victoria, both happening to be in town for a moment.

October 26: Beautiful fall day in Inwood, lovely day for a spooky tour of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. A visit to the grave of the Wizard of Oz inspires me to catch a screening of the same that afternoon before visiting the Queens Night Market.

October 29 - 31 : Jesse organized an outing to try the outrageous Korean cheeseburgers at Black Emperor the last night they were available. All I can say is “Dang!” and “Wow!” also tried an al pastor slice that night at Sauce. V. nice. Halloween met up with some friends in the spooky Chelsea Market and ate such a bad hamburger crammed in a pita.

September : All At Once

Okay, December, let’s talk about September!

September 2: A rainy Labor Day, I dashed between breakfasts and lunches with friends and shopped frantically for a short-term suit to use the next day. Saw this bear I hadn’t seen before on the Upper West Side.

September 7: This was big, Morrissey in Forest Hills with Interpol as an opening act. Hadn’t seen Steven Patrick in 12 years. He’s doing well! 15 minutes after his set ended and a crowd was still fighting for shreds of the shirt he had tossed into the audience. Oh I went there with Chaunte! But we saw lots of other people we knew, too.

September 8 - 11: Walking around pics plus a little bit of my neighborhood’s 9/11 memorial gathering.

September 12: Another big one! Laura was in town with Naomi and after dinner with Patricia we went to a wild exhibit at the New Museum. Adam was there, too!

September 16 - 22: Chick-Fi-A with Garrett and more walking around, this time with stops at the Whitney Museum and some Chelsea Galleries.

The Rest: Man, I’m just losing the spirit of the blog. Here’s the rest of the pictures! We’ve got stake conference, a great ma po tofu I made, more walking around, the 5th Avenue Apple Store remodel, uhh, oh yeah! A little bit of the Fort Tryon Medieval Festival. All right. Time to picture out October pictures for another well thought-out post.