El Gaffney

Schiller’s Tonight

Schiller’s Liquor Bar on Rivington that is. Not to be confused with Schiller Visions. Hopefully no one will be drinking coffee.

Have a fireworks-filled Fourth.

Tags: bars, food, nyc, snl

Keeping In Contact

How is it that Ticketmaster can let me know my $60 Beastie Boys tickets have been confirmed as purchased, printed, and sent (all as separate updates), but my moving company can’t give me an update on all of my stuff? Thousands of dollars of items somewhere in Minneapolis (or New York) and thousands of dollars being paid to move them and I can’t get anyone to call me back to give me an update on the status. When I finally do get in touch they give me an extended timeframe. No, not the cable company sometime between 9am and 2pm on Wednesday timeframe; the sometime between June 28th and July 4th timeframe. Problem is, they didn’t even make that. “It’s a busy week, so the best we can do is deliver it Friday (July 6th).” So I’ve been paying rent on an empty place since July 1st, now have to take a day off in my first month of working, and still don’t have my tennis racquets, wine glasses, or Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind DVD (nor my DVD player). Thanks Liberty, Mohawk, United Van Lines and all the other companies you’ve swallowed up to make this move a more difficult, costly, and a generally unpleasant experience.

P.S. Please call me back if know an hourly timeframe for Friday.

Tags: mn, moving, nyc, rants

Things I Missed/Didn’t Miss About NYC

The weeknight casual drinks.
The weekday/workday casual hangover.

In lots of other places, you just don’t socialize during the week like you do here. (Though I bet the Brits would say our inability to take down a pint or two during lunch is weak.) I’m in the place where after a margherita and 3 draft beers I’m not really going to feel drunk, but I’m going to feel pretty dehydrated the next morning (manana por la manana if you will). Thankfully last night ended pretty early, but most casual drinks end around 11:30PM (assuming you don’t want to be called a wuss or worse). Plus, it’s impossible to pull an Irish Goodbye with a smaller, less intoxicated group.

No the image does not quite match the copy but I had to add it in order to ask if you or one of your friends used to pull Absolut ads out of your parents’ magazines and collect them. Seriously. One of my friends did – how ridiculous it seems now. I used to collect the Penn tennis balls print ads. Nerd alert.

Tags: absolut, bars, drinking, nyc

Things I Missed/Things I Didn’t Miss About NYC

Walking outside without a plan and finding something/place new and interesting.
Walking outside on that same sunny day (without an umbrella obviously) and being hit by random drops of water.

Tags: nyc, weather

Back to Work

Started my new job yesterday at Deutsch. Thus, I guess the first thing I have to do is make “the” disclaimer: The opinions, and especially immaturity, expressed on this site are my own. They don’t know I have a blog. Shhh. Sneaky. Most don’t know I work here. It’s a bigger agency than I’m used to. 400+ on one floor in NYC stretching a full city block (and avenue). Plus, I’m wearing my invisible shades that I stole from the kid in Big Daddy. I’m having everyone call me Frankenstein. There are 3 other Seth’s here and FrankenSTEIN sounds Jewish anyway, so I’m not hiding my identity.

For those who care, I’ll be working on Starwood and Olympus. I probably won’t be talking about them. However, I may ask about The Wood and The Big O. Just keeping it DL and, of course, real.

The people are nice. The location is gr-8. And the bathrooms are O.K. Guess that takes care of that. Can’t imagine you have anymore questions, but if you do, type them in the comments and I’ll do my best to respond without raising any alarms. Yes, there was a fire drill day 1. Awesome.

Tags: deutsch, jobs, nyc, olympus, starwood