2008/05/03 New York
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Coincidence and food

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Last night a friend took me to a small bistro on Broome Street called La Sirene. The restaurant is so small that eating there can be understood as a culinary extension of couch surfing.
My crab cakes - an appetizer – were delicious and the two ladies running the place helpful and charming. After three hours the smells coming from the kitchen can get annoying, but three hours should give you enough time to finish your meal.
There is a case to be made that coincidental intimacy is as good as let’s say wanted and planned intimacy.
La Sirene is the perfect place for accidental intimacy. You listen to your neighbors, you observe your neighbors, you accidentally touch your neighbors, and if you ask I’m sure you can try your neighbor’s dessert or maybe even stroke the knee of your neighbor’s husband.


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Arnon
You might enjoy Caravan of Dreams on 6th and avenue E for accidental intimacy (and the food , its organic and kosjer). I saw on their website they have private rooms aswell . Thats for organised intimacy I geuss.
said Bram Esser 03/05/2008 20:59 • x
Bram
Is the food good as well?
As my friend Sander used to say: "Intimacy is fine, food is better."
said Arnon Grunberg 03/05/2008 21:23 • x
That`s why he looks the way he`s looking, I guess...
said jelena cane 03/05/2008 21:38 (Updated 21:39) • x
Arnon
The quality of the food has been going down from excellent to very good (that tends to happen to restaurants on Mnahatten). I think its mainly vegetarian that they serve there. But the accidental intimacy has remained on the same high level. I recently went to another very good vegetarian restaurant in Park slope Brooklyn which is excellent, its called Vspot (i think its a chain) .
said Bram Esser 03/05/2008 22:45 • x
@Rutger
I've been thinking about your comments regarding the axe, in connection to your asking whether I'm aliefka. If it was your intention to scare me, it worked (no irony or cynicism here).
said noa fenenga 04/05/2008 01:40 • x
Noa
You should not be scared that easily. Unless of course you get something out of it.
said Arnon Grunberg 04/05/2008 02:35 • x
Noa
You are a sweetheart, and the prospect of having sex with you greatly appeals to me. As for the axe, however, I think there is not much I can do to reassure you, seeing that the image already occupies your thoughts, not through my own accord but through your vanity and immense amour propre. Sleep well.
said RH CdG 04/05/2008 03:15 • x
RH CdG
You are an idiot. You know that, right? I know you are an idiot of the harmless kind. But please consider those who are not able to recognize that.
said Tjitze R. 04/05/2008 04:08 • x
This will be my last comment on here, for ever and indefinitely. Thanks everyone for the discussions and Arnon, keep this unique and well appreciated web log going! Thanks.
said Tjitze R. 04/05/2008 04:08 • x
As a child, Tjitze was already known to yell bad words at people and then run off real fast.
said RH CdG 04/05/2008 04:43 • x
Jelena Cane (MK)
Did you really register under a new name on this site just to tell me something I already know?
said Sander Voerman 04/05/2008 08:19 • x
A church service is also a good place for coincidental intimicy.
The same with funerals.
said David Martino 04/05/2008 09:34 • x
Sander
Could you also tell when Henry Winkler starts commenting here under another name? He is awesome.
said David Martino 04/05/2008 09:50 • x
@Rutger: "... said the wiseman to the fool." (in other words: stop projecting your own vanities and 'propre-whatcha-ma-call-them-use of-big-words" on me, please.)
said noa fenenga 04/05/2008 13:09 • x
intimacy is fine, darkness is better. It's like alcohol. It always works; (and loud music of course)
said Dens Powells 04/05/2008 13:28 • x
Oh and Rutger...
By the way, just to set the record straight (you're good at twisting facts) - I did not invite you to have sex with me, I merely answered to "God" via Jan Arends' words you projected on this blog. Obviously, this was as much in gest as Jan Arends's Godly axe is, and hence you.
said noa fenenga 04/05/2008 13:47 • x
Noa
You did not invite me to have sex with you? Allow me to quote you, "God is always welcome in my home for a beer (and perhaps even some sex for I'd gladly give birth to the Messias)". If I am supposed to be your feared axe man, it follows that I am also this God, since that is what the poem says.

Re: "You're good at twisting facts": please provide examples.
said RH CdG 04/05/2008 14:05 • x
Noa
On second thought, don't bother. Whether you want to or not, you are following Margots good example. Goodbye.
said RH CdG 04/05/2008 14:10 • x
Sander
Hey, there are several people using the same computer. I only post comments under my real name.
said Manon Kadoke 04/05/2008 14:29 • x
Manon
OK, in that case say hello to Jelena from me. She is welcome to join me for dinner in one of my favorite Parisian restaurants. There she can try to convince me that intimacy is better than the food.
said Sander Voerman 04/05/2008 15:54 • x
@Rutger, so this is your farewell? Powerful exit indeed.
said noa fenenga 04/05/2008 16:01 • x
Noa
See, that's what happens what you intentionally or unintentionally hurt his ego.
He then starts to cry.
said Margot Morgan 04/05/2008 17:47 • x
what=when, sorry. too much sun.
said Margot Morgan 04/05/2008 17:48 • x
Manon
I've got a chimpansee who is using the same computer as me. He has posted under several names here, sometimes he uses my name. Right now he's watching television.
said David Martino 04/05/2008 23:38 • x
@David
... discovery channel, I suppose? Don't forget to feed the monkey.
said Pablo Del Pueblo 05/05/2008 11:14 • x
Pablo
Yes, probably, he also loves Baywatch.
He prefers self service when it comes to feeding, but I always have to open his bottle of wine.
said David Martino 05/05/2008 12:44 • x
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