The Flaneur (Full Circle)

After a productive moring, and on my way to lunch, I stopped into Joe on Waverly Place for a quick coffee and it was nice to be surrounded for a moment by so much original, quality art curated by my pal Jen Bekman. Then it was off for a lovely vegetarian repast with acclaimed poet Alice Fulton and her partner, Hank DeLeo (note to self: pick up her Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry). I dated a vegetarian for a few years and it's an amusing sidenote that I can recall and recommend all the macrobiotic restaurants in Paris as a result. From there I stopped by my friend Tunji Dada's shop to say hello. He told me about a new capsule collection of his iconic trenchcoats that he might do as a limited edition with a noted painter, which is just his style.  As I wound my way across and downtown and on my way home, I stopped into KD Dance in Nolita for the best impulse buy of the season: full-length legwarmers! I put them on before I left the store. A few blocks later, I ran into Paddy Johnson, one of my favorite people (and art critics), who was on her way home, from where else... jen bekman!