Comments on: friday birthday wordplay ..! http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/03/10/friday-birthday-wordplay/ poetry: a curious look at this 21st century pleasure Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:13:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Zachary Chartkoff http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/03/10/friday-birthday-wordplay/#comment-108 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:09:09 +0000 http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/03/10/friday-birthday-wordplay/#comment-108 Thank you, Sam! Shelby and I went to the Columbus Museum of Modern Art, about a dozen used book stores (my big weakness ... if it has a poetry section I can literally spend half a day reading through the various books for sale, you never know what you'll find) and had dinner at a Bali restaurant. All and all it was a delightful weekend. It's not every day I get to spend a leisurely amount of time loitering about a fashionable and new-fashioned city, something with a night life full of dancing and beautiful people. I am not saying that my city, Lansing, is full of grossly overweight, out of fashion creatures, but Michigan does have the 4th largest amount of appalling obese people in all of America. It is sort of sad. But my weekend spent in Columbus, Ohio, was very different. It has charming hip neighborhoods full of neat art shops and bistros and cafes and restaurants of many different tastes. We stayed in Germantown, which was populated by (guess what?) Germans a hundred or so years ago. Now the neighborhood is full of cobblestone streets and brick two-story houses and corner grocery stores. The reason Shelby and I stayed there was a really cheap hotel/bakery called Juergen's that seemed like the kind of adventure I was hoping to have. The owner, Rosemary, who probably was 90 years old but seemed to have the energy and humor of someone in their 60s, appeared delighted she had someone stay at her hotel. It had the kind of out of the way, run down atmosphere about it that suggested Rosemary didn't get a lot of visitors to the hotel side of her business, though her European bakery was delicious! There is something delightful about waking up in the morning and having the smell of fresh bread rising up through the window. Thank you, Sam! Shelby and I went to the Columbus Museum of Modern Art, about a dozen used book stores (my big weakness … if it has a poetry section I can literally spend half a day reading through the various books for sale, you never know what you’ll find) and had dinner at a Bali restaurant. All and all it was a delightful weekend. It’s not every day I get to spend a leisurely amount of time loitering about a fashionable and new-fashioned city, something with a night life full of dancing and beautiful people. I am not saying that my city, Lansing, is full of grossly overweight, out of fashion creatures, but Michigan does have the 4th largest amount of appalling obese people in all of America. It is sort of sad. But my weekend spent in Columbus, Ohio, was very different. It has charming hip neighborhoods full of neat art shops and bistros and cafes and restaurants of many different tastes. We stayed in Germantown, which was populated by (guess what?) Germans a hundred or so years ago. Now the neighborhood is full of cobblestone streets and brick two-story houses and corner grocery stores. The reason Shelby and I stayed there was a really cheap hotel/bakery called Juergen’s that seemed like the kind of adventure I was hoping to have. The owner, Rosemary, who probably was 90 years old but seemed to have the energy and humor of someone in their 60s, appeared delighted she had someone stay at her hotel. It had the kind of out of the way, run down atmosphere about it that suggested Rosemary didn’t get a lot of visitors to the hotel side of her business, though her European bakery was delicious! There is something delightful about waking up in the morning and having the smell of fresh bread rising up through the window.

]]> by: sam http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/03/10/friday-birthday-wordplay/#comment-106 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:56:50 +0000 http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/03/10/friday-birthday-wordplay/#comment-106 Happy B'day, Zack! And may your trip to Columbus be everything you expect--and more (tho for the love of me I can't understand why you guys picked Columbus, or Ohio for that matter but that's neither here nor there it's your vacation so get outta here you crazy kids and have a good time, OK?) Your friend, The Guy Who Saw His 36th Birthday 14 Years Ago... Happy B’day, Zack! And may your trip to Columbus be everything you expect–and more (tho for the love of me I can’t understand why you guys picked Columbus, or Ohio for that matter but that’s neither here nor there it’s your vacation so get outta here you crazy kids and have a good time, OK?)

Your friend,
The Guy Who Saw His 36th Birthday 14 Years Ago…

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