Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Day 5: Culture Calms The Savage Beast.

For some reason, our newspapers didn’t arrive this morning. Anyone know what the weather was yesterday in New York?

Rimshot.

I followed up the fifth-worst blizzard in the history of NYC by seeing the best play of the year in NYC: Time Stands Still.

Laura Linney, Brian d’Arcy James, Eric Begosian and Cristina Ricci were amazing. And if you’ve ever been to the theater with my mom, you'll know she doesn’t settle for anything less than the front row, so we spent the second act inhaling Laura Linney’s second-hand smoke.

Driving in the city, by the way, is the most surreal experience – cabs are abandoned, buried in six-foot snow drifts. Clever opening gambit, winter.