I have had an amazing two days running around to meetings in New York. Lower Manhattan is humming.
I continue to learn the subways (not that it is hard, more that I have been lazy and stubborn) which has really helped me move around
I have not been on the upper east side in years, but now Rachel lives up there and I got to see her apartment for the first time. It was clean and neat (I did give her notice) and I am so happy for her.
I’m off to Italy tonight for the beginning of an incredible riding trip in the mountains around Lake Como. Ellen is on her yearly sister trip, this year in Morocco. She sent me this picture yesterday which made me smile:
Last night I met up for a few drinks with Rachel and my friends Dani Zoldan, Mike Dudas and Dan Altman. Dani is a local comedy legend who owns a comedy club on the upper west side, started ‘Stand Up NY’ and runs some great comedy festivals. For a while he was partners in the club with an old friend of mine James Altucher. James is to put it gently, a bit of a ‘character’ so we got to talking about old stories and how small a world it is. I shqred a story about how I met James and how once shadowed me for a day of meetings in New York and wrote about it.
I dug it up and am reminded how great a writer and storyteller James is and how not much has changed. The post is titled ‘53 Things I Learned From Howard Lindzon‘. This riff really sums it up…
And, what do you know, later that night some punk named Howard Lindzon was already saying on some blog. “Whats this NosePickr that TheStreet.com is investing in?” I posted, “WTF!? Howard, I love Wall Strip. What are you doing?” And he felt bad and called me and we spoke for three hours. Howard’s first a punk. And then he’s a friend. But he stays friends for life after that. Or until he’s a punk again. I don’t know. But he kept calling me and I finally picked up and we not only realized that we were distantly related but that we had been to nursery school together. A week later I made my first appearance on “Wall Strip”, we met in person, and became good friends.
For me, I can’t start off picking fights. But Howard is the bull in the China shop and everyone stops to look. It works for him. Don’t think his ongoing fight with Jason Calacanis isn’t a smart, clever move on Howard’s part on his goal of achieving eventual world domination. He’s tricky that way. Or maybe, its just a fight. I can never figure it out.
Ok…off for my 8 am meeting.
Have a great day.
