So I am confused as to why the folks at the Thai place we went to--an excellent 7-day-a-week lunch special place--were so insistent. No, they weren't insistent on the Pad Kee Mao, whcih was good (and red). Rather, they were insistently informing us --on two separate occasions--that the shlocky music videos on the two TVs were starred in by all men--many of them with implants and dressed as women. This is of course something I believe, as from experience, and maybe this is racist, but fat Thais end up working in restaurants, and the skinny ones end up becoming women. Hrmm.. It was hard to not say when they asked us how things were, 'yum yum!'

On Broadway near Steinway today there were a couple young white girls trying to sell some Socialism conference. I was skeptical, but would have stopped in to talk to them if only I had the time, and if they hadn't mysteriously disappeared. Amazing how much more I was concerned with all that a year ago.