Lazy Sunday

A bulleted list for Sunday night in your pajamas, since a cohesive essay-like post is not in the cards:

- Obama or Ahmadinejad? Clearly the NY applause-o-meter chooses Obama, who had a rally on Thurs. in Washington Square Park. But I say Ahmadinejad for entertainment/shock value.
- Mexican mariachi bands sometime sing at tapas bars. At least in the Village.
- Pedestrians in bike lanes make me want to punch Jesus. Or slap a baby.
- Century 21, an enormous Filene's + Nordstrom Rack + Marshall's-like department store near Ground Zero, is not for the faint of heart.
- The lyrics "Konichiwa-wa Ticket"--repeated over and over...and over--don't make for a good song.
- If you're sitting at a picnic table at the DUMBO Art Fair, enjoying a delicious $5 slice-and-Bud combo, and find yourself assailed by the above aural offense, you should get up and go see the elephant painting with his tusk.
- Strawberry ice cream from the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory + the view of Manhattan from the pier at night + watching 3-yr-old Asian twins giggling and running up to a boathouse wall onto which a video of marine life is being projected = happiness.

A future TPWHAEITUS moment:
An anticipated visit to the church where Vito (of Sufjan's "Vito's Ordination Song") is the pastor and Buster from Arrested Development is a parishoner.