Thursday, July 20

(paint)brush with greatness

It's not often that I spot an old friend (longevity, not years) on national television. I was watching a few weeks old episode of Queer Eye with the Straight Guy, and who do I see but a high school chum: Marty! I paused my TiVo, played it back - yep, it's her (but only for about two seconds).

Gotta love any woman who knows about the Takilma hippie commune (southwest Oregon).

After living in Ahrland [Ireland] for a few years, Marty's now a gallerist*, and runs the Trifecta Gallery in Las Vegas - just a few blocks west of The Strip.
Gallerist: (n) "A fashionable new word bubbling up in the New York art scene: gallerist, as a substitute for art dealer. Not, of course, just any art dealer. A gallerist is directly involved with the care and feeding of artists, rather than with the quick turnover of art objects."
- New York Times 2005
Unrelated #0: A few months ago, I blogged about the RhinoSkin case for my PDA. Last night, it came in handy as I dropped my PDA onto the concrete garage floor (not recommended). I was afraid to even open the cover for fear of seeing glass shards where the display had been. No such luck: the RhinoSkin kept everything intact, and all is well with the world.

Unrelated #eleventeen: Had dinner with HayJax, Tim-Bob, Jill-Bob and Brian-Bob last night at Two Rows Classic Grill in Allen. It's basically a big, smoky, noisy bar .. for those of you who are into that sort of thing. I played it safe and ordered the fryde catfeesh, which was edible.

2 comments:

Jill said...

The BAR part of Two Rows is noisy, not very large, and usually not all that smokey for a bar. The RESTAURANT part isn't noisy (unless you happen to be sitting right next to the bar) or smokey, although it is large.

Gene said...

I have the same feeling about smoke, that you have about pickles. I don't want them anywhere I can be downwind. To me, ALL of Two Rows/Allen is a big, smoky bar. Blech.