catko | Cupcakes tonight

One of the first things I thought of, when I first thought of this trip, was how to have music in the apartment. Figured I'd buy a set of cheap speakers at a store on the corner somewhere so I could play my 800 songs that are in this laptop somewhere. I even tried to bribe my New York friends to come to a party by promising to load their requests. Dave wanted something by Bon Jovi, which was lucky since I already had Livin' on a Prayer. It's a weird disco version with a wah-wah sound, but anyway.

Through the combined magics of the Internet and New York City, we had brunch today with Joe. Yesterday, Lori had Facebooked us having breakfast at a place he recommended; he commented that he was in town from SF closing out his and Vince's swank Chelsea apartment, and he made brunch reservations at Five Points for today. I had baked eggs and bacon. On the topic of cheap spruce-ups for the apartment, he suggested Muji--the Chelsea one, not the SoHo one which according to him is a total cluster-f*ck. Intriguing, that, but we wanted to see Chelsea anyway, since we're checking off our neighborhood checklist.

So later that afternoon we took the long stroll up 6th. Such a cool store, all the stuff so well made and pleasant to touch. And Lori found the find of the trip so far: cardboard foldng speakers!

Much later, hanging round the apartment, I read something online about red velvet cupcakes, and looked up Bo's cupcake recommendation. Er, 1.1 miles a little too far to walk at 9:30 pm. Lori said "Just google 'red velvet' and "New York City'--surely there's somewhere closer." Sure enough we found Crumbs just a few blocks away. Yippee! Spur of the moment cupcake getting!

Felt a few raindrops as we headed home, and now it's a full-blown thunderstorm. I posted on Facebook: "Crazy lightning lights up the skyline. Say that three times fast. Good thing we've got cupcakes." Good thing.