I am here after a very busy weekend. Anthony/Baxter and I had a divoon afternoon with the lovely and sparkling Elmore AKA Larry. Despite his protestations, he is not the world's worst host. We had a grand time talking and eating donuts and cider and halloween cookies. After we left, Ant and I realized what a long weekend it had been. We had chicken noodle soup and tortellini for dinner and then at 6:30pm I lay down for a few minutes. Anthony said "Are you going to bed?" I, unawares, said "no, I'm just laying down for a quick nap" Fast forward to 6:22am November 1st and you will see how unawares I was. Ah, well.
We had a lovely weekend, as I mentioned early. On Friday we visited Anthony's cousins on the Upper West Side. We gorged on pizza and soda and cinnamon apple pudding cake from the Greenmarket. On Saturday Anthony put together a little cemetery of Ghost Lollipops (DR Larry got one yesterday so he knows what they look like) for our second trek to the Upper West Side for a birthday party. We had a great time eating chili and fixins' and devouring a wonderful autmn pie with raisins, currants, cranberries and apples. We also watched the HBO Elaine Stritch At Liberty piece aired eons ago. A good time was had by all. Then, yesterday we trekked uptown again (our passports are full of stamps for UWS) for our lovely visit with Mr. Moore. What a great time we had! Thank you, Larry for the wonderful visit. We returned home just before the annual Halloween parade began and as we exited the subway we saw a plethora of little children in not scary at all costumes, many princesses and pirates and other sundried characters. We then had dinner, and as mentioned, I fell into a deep sleep. Anthony heard some of the parade from the street, watched a bit on NYOne News and then came to bed himself. He's not feeling completely well. Perhaps we had too much excitement this weekend. He feels a cold coming on. He will head out to Long Island tomorrow (he's registered out there) to vote and then will stay for some doctor appointments and he will return to the city this Saturday.
That's the report from Chelsea. More later.
P.S. The Rainmaker, Desk Set (as was mentioned earlier, that drunk scene at the Christmas party is WONDERFUL), Lion in Winter and Long Day's Journey into Night.