We're up to Monday in the NYC trip report (if you're bored then come back on Thursday when it will all be over)
On Monday the morning news threatened rain so we prayed hard over our morning bagels in the hotel breakfast room (so hard that Darrens rosary snapped sending beads scattering over the slate floor). At noon our prayers were answered and an angry rain descended to wash the scum off the streets. Before this though we headed over to NYU to visit the Bobst library and this timely exhibition. We were the only ones at the exhibition for most of our time there, which was nice, and the collection of gay literature was interesting (especially the original letters from Bosey to Wilde). The Bobst library is a stunning building so poke your head round the door if you're passing.

The Bobst Library at NYU (click to enlarge)

When it rains in New York the weak head back to their hotels and the strong go shopping. We went straight from high-brow to crass by spending money in Tower Village Video on DVD's that we can't get at home (or even afford). I bought all three box sets of Strangers With Candy as I'm having a bit of a Sedaris phase and thought I should get to know Amy as well as David. Darren bought even more but he's too embarrassed to have them listed here (no, they're not mucky). We trekked East through SOHO with our heavy bags and finally found Moby's tea rooms, teany (tea in NY, geddit?). We went for the 'tea for 2' option which was a selection of vegan sandwiches, vegan scones with 'normal' clotted cream and little cakes all washed down with herbal fruity teas. Surprisingly tasty but unsurprisingly expensive (and he wasn't there to listen to me moan about his recent poor output).

The rain stopped as we left teany so we made for Manhattan Portage in SOHO where we oooo'd and ahhhh'd at the utilitarian masterpieces and bought a couple (very hard to find here in the UK so less guilt when handing over the credit card).
It was raining again as we left the posh shops of Soho so we went to the Movies. We saw Bewitched which was OK (spookily, Amy Sedaris has a cameo appearance in this film) and Heights which was OK too (it's near the end of the trip report and I'm reduced to capsule reviews of 'OK'). Heights would be good in a 'nasty-people-lacking-in-morals' double-bill with Closer. It was partly set in Chelsea so it was weird to see streets and shops that we had walked past a few hours earlier. After the movies we went to a diner near Carnegie Hall for supper and Jackie Mason came in for his dinner. He didn't recognise us.