From ovid Fri Feb 9 15:37:29 1996 Subject: dave and marla's potluck in nyc To: cc Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:37:29 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2494
I happened to be in New York last week, giving a talk at Columbia, was happy to learn that Dave and Marla would have one of their well-known Thursday nights potlucks. This week, the theme was Indian food.
I called Dave earlier in the week and he suggested I bring some wine, so I got some Washington white and came with my friend Sarah, with whom I was staying in New York.
New York is a rather accessable city on foot, a bit like San Francisco. It was no problem for us to walk from E. 22nd, where Sarah was staying, to the West Village, the place Dave and Marla are staying. Also, it helped that the whether was mild by NY standards.
We got there and was greeted by a scene not unlike one I had seen at TND's in SF: people hanging out, talking about lots of different things, eating the well-prepared food - here's Dave cleaning afterwards.
I talked with several folx from NYU film dept. - there seemed to be a minor contingent from the film world present there. Also, since Dave & Marla work in publishing, there were several folx from the publishing world present.
One difference I noticed was that the geek quotient was smaller here than SF. Perhaps I did not speak to enough people.
At some point in the night, Dave told me about this neat camera he has, which allows one to take pictures which can then be downloaded onto a computer right away. I also asked several people to take pictures as well. Here are some more examples: more of the gang, and Marla with a friend
Overall, a very nice evening, marred only by some unusual whirring noises in the file-server :) Hopefully, they are fixed by now.
take care/shalom,
ovid
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have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves. This is a dream not of
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