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Valentines day is strange bag of complex crapola
kinda the way on New Year's eve you can feel suicidal if you are not surrounded by love when the clock strikes 12

on valentines day you can feel suicidal if you're not getting laid around 12
afternoon, evening what have ya

its a lotta pressure for one friggen day named after
St Valentine?
who the hell was that anyway
the patron saint of condoms?

anyway
i did not get laid on Valentines day
and was not with a romantic lady
either
or at least not a lady who is romantic with moi
but i was surrounded by love

i went to see my very good friend
deborah karpel
perform an opera recital
and honey she knocked my socks off
debbie is a petite beautiful woman
who has always looked to me as though she stepped out of another time
perhaps the 1920's in Paris
or the 1940s in old New York..
she exudes that magical somethingness that makes people stars
and heart breakers
but still
even after all the years i have known her
it is still shocking to remember in one high note
the power-house of a voice that blasts out of her small frame
she has, what opera folks call "a big voice"
and honey i mean it
big, beautiful
high
rich
amazing
any producers, agents,
theatre folks
opera directors out there
drop me a line cause you do need to know this woman!
but i digress

anyway
after the opera
our post opera ensemble
with documentarian
Liz ( of liz and debbie) at the lead
went to the Plaza Hotel
to have perhaps a farewell drink at the famed OAK BAR
say it isnt so
but it is
the plaza
the home of eloise
one of the last great hurrahs of the manhattan of yesteryear
will soon be condo-ed
already the majestic oak room
is gone
i have heard the oak bar may stay
and i hope so
but losing the plaza
will line up there with all the other great losses of old new york
there are so few left

how i long for more of old new york
in the city fillling more every day with
disney
starbucks
and
trump towers

sigh
but i digress again

sipping wine at the oak room
looking out at the many saffron gates
the artist Cristo
has just installed in Central Park
part of a 16 day installation work
and at the love at my table

it really was a great
Valentines day

so no
i did not get laid
for those keeping count
but hey

opera
art
wine
and old new york

not a bad v-day all in all

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