Okay, a couple of friends have suggested that I might be a little focused on life within a 10 street radius from where I live. I like to consider it an environmentally friendly position to take, with less drain on the social infrastructure by traveling outside my realm.

That all said, I ventured to Times Square for the first time in six months to see the movie “Talk to Me”. I am freshly reminded as to why I don’t travel north of 23rd Street too often - it was maddening chaos, which took nearly half an hour to get 100 yards down the street to the theater. But hey, since I was there I did the tourist thing an took a photo or two of the chaos.

So let’s see, the movie, “Talk to Me” was the history of a Washington DJ, Petey Greene (Don Cheadle) and a radio manager , Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Set across a 30 year span, taking in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It’s a beautiful movie, just about real life, making it, limitations, some great lines and a message that the people we travel through life with offer us the things that we are too often afraid to grasp for ourselves. Oh and I swear to God, if that’s what my parents wore in the 1960’s, I am totally shocked

Besides all that I found Dale and Thomas, gourmet popcorn on the way to the movie (yes I know, New York does have a tendency to call things gourmet when in fact it is actually dingey self-serve hot food that has been sitting in the corner store for too many hours than is healthy - but in this case Dale’s is great!). This meant that I picked up a bag of Spicy BBQ, mixed with Buffalo and Blue Cheese for the movie … mmmm.

Categories: Entertaining, Movies, New York