A night of QueensRyche, but more of a night of enlightenment Part One!
Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 3:18pm
To most it was just another night of concert goings, tickets to a great show, partying all night the usual rockin’ Mayhem. In my eyes I saw it as an amazing show of dedication and true love of fans and friends who came out to support a band whose music has a message. I may have not seemed to be my “usual” self, as I was truly absorbing everything that was happening that led us to this night in NYC.
The start of the journey into NYC was out of Ronkonkoma LIRR with my girl Nina, and later Lori met up with us. During the wait while consuming our Dunkin’ Donut’s Cafe and Boston Creme delights I noticed the usual swooping of little sparrows around us. I threw a few crumbs to them, and they abilged by eating the specs of donuts. I decided to do my Doc. Doolittle routine and place a tiny spec of donut in the palm of my hand and held it out- and to my surprise a fearless little bird gingerly came up to it and ate out of my hand! I felt like a kid at the LI Game Farm feeding a goat with a baby bottle! What a thrill!
The ride on the train was amusing with The odor of Cat pee coming through the air vents..How wonderful of the LIRR to use the cat pee soaked air filters in their ventilation system. That was probably what our increase in fares went into was paying for that little “extra”. Prior to my usual nap time on the train I was amused by Lori who was checking her bag for something, and preceeded to empty her entire life onto the seat next to her- It was like watching clowns coming out of a VW, she kept pulling out all sorts of goodies…a set of darts, mace container, a comb disguised as a knife, you know all the usual stuff us women keep in our life bags! She was a pip!
We get into Penn Stat. and the doors open and you get that RUSH of thick puke and piss air that immediately goes to your brain that sends you the message: ” WELCOME TO THE BIG APPLE!” We immediately go upstairs to street level so we can have our needed nicotine fix, and to somehow think that if suck in the smoke from the cigarettes, it may actually counter act the effects of the NYC stench that we breathed in! Funny how we think…. BUT HEY WE ARE IN NYC! PARTY CENTRAL! And what a blast we are going to have. We go back down to TGIF’s and indulge in well needed noshes and alcohol and make our way back up to the streets to head to the Nokia Theatre. I get a phone call from Chopper that the rest of the “crew” has arrived and that we should wait for them. SO that’s what me Nina and Lori Do is wait….smoke….wait….watch people watching us…..wait…and then in the distance on the other side of the street I see Johnny WC bopping down with everyone else, so I go across and wait and who walks right into my face, but my SISTER…that’s right my well dressed, totally opposite of me, sister Leslie is there in NYC with her Kevin, and it’s the WHAT THE F ARE YOU DOING HERE MOMENT#1! Then it’s the jumping and grabbing and tonguing fest with everyone else, stop and the first Hot dog stand, and off we go on our walk to the Nokia.
Photo opt #1 is ELMO his self standing on the corner, so you KNOW we all go nuts, and somehow it started a FRENZY with people we didn’t even know, and a crowd was sworming around ELMO- Who by the way had quite a racket as his Left over christmas stocking was filling up pretty quickly with “donations” for the photo oportunity from us tourists! hee hee….
Photo opt #2: Nice young NYC Police Officer (NOT “COP” JAMES) was approached by Denise who went over and said to the fine young officer, “we would like to take a picture with you” “are you asking me, or telling me? he replied. Denise realizing that she better say the right thing, replied back “asking you?” And guess what? Group Photo of the women and Mr. NYPD hunk of the day!
We are now ready to go and stand on that longgggggg line across the street at the Nokia……..
