Friday night, Kate and I were supposed to meet friends at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side. In typical fashion, we left too late and the F train took forever so we decided to skip the slam poetry and wander. We wandered down E. Houston between 1st Ave and Ave D saw some dive bars, tattoo parlors, a tall gated empty lot turned creepy sculpture garden and finally stumbled upon a small community garden. Le Petit Versailles. (It's so trendy it has its own blog http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com/) We peered in, wondering if it was a restaurant or someone's backyard. A man appeared and invited us in. This sounds a lot creepier than it actually was. There was a table and chairs, mirrors against the adjacent buildings, lights and ceramic art.
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It was peaceful and quaint, artistic and idyllic. The ceramics scattered throughout were made by a local artist, Kate has a business card, gotta get that name from her.
Lida and I decided that we need to do things like this every weekend. Wander around a part of New York and find interesting spots like this one. We sound like an old married couple. Heh.
Also note to self, learn how to use my camera.
Happy Monday!
I'm procrastinating real hard right now on an essay about the balance between freedom and order in Euripides's The Bacchae.
Love, Chelsea
Who is that sexy goddess of sex in the second picture?
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