I've been here two days and I am quite clearly still the newest person on the whole island of Manhattan. We're at a costume party on the Upper East Side and I'm wearing my battered leather jacket and a trilby lent to me by Quentin, because needless to say I didn't have anything even vaguely glamorous in my rucksack. The party is confusing me because now I think everybody here drinks martinis and dresses like Mad Men characters all the time. Maybe they do?
Jeff and I eat pretzels and watch the inimitable Quentin flit around the apartment like a social butterfly. He moved here only three months ago from Dublin and it's like he's been here all his life.
I want to be a New Yorker, too, I think to myself. In fact, I won't be happy until New York shows up at this party wearing an I ♥ Annie t-shirt.
You're home. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's one of my 3 favourite places on the planet and the reason I'm in the green card lottery every year!
ReplyDeleteI'd love an I ♥ Annie t-shirt. I'd wear it to work with pride and to Hendy's at the top of Brook road in Shotton, Deeside, Clwyd.
ReplyDelete"In fact, I won't be happy until New York shows up at this party wearing an I ♥ Annie t-shirt". I LOVE this line. :)
ReplyDeleteOnly a matter of time.
ReplyDeleteA week. Maybe two.
New York wouldn't be able to get in the door. It'd be way too tall. I'm sure it ♥ Annie though.
ReplyDeleteNYC might come wearing a 'The Big Annie' t-shirt instead.
ReplyDeleteTechnically, 59th st is still midtown. :)
ReplyDeleteThere may have been I heart Annie t-shirts back in the 80s, but they would have had pictures of a young Sarah Jessica Parker on them.
Hi Tell Quentin we miss him on the radio
ReplyDelete( have switched to 2FM , as Ray has become a prat)
and in the Irish Times . Can see him as native new yorker but not rude. Hope you are ok and will follow you adventures. PS would love t shirt too bit hard to explain to kids
Ant