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February 22:
TGIF

This week has been a blur of client meetings and trips to printing presses and color separation houses, thank goodness it's Friday already.

One of the printers is near Madison Square so Arnold and I took the chance to have a late dinner at Teriyaki Boy. It's not the typical Pinoy-Japanese fastfood place and food is actually good. We had sushi and shared an okonomiyaki, which was quite heavy so I took half of it home for my family to taste.

We also discovered a new dessert place -- Lord Stow's bakery which is supposedly known for their egg tarts. We shared one and true enough, unlike any run-of-the-mill egg tart, their's has a flaky crust and the creamy center melts in the mouth. It's about the size of your palm and will only set you back P25 -- cheaper and yummier than any Starbucks pastry.

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Also found time to finish two of the books Ramon so generously lent us:

The Ballad of Dr. Richardson by Paul Pope

Dr. Richardson, a timid art history professor meets a former student in a subway train and from that moment on, ventures into the unknown and thus changes the course of his uneventful life.

His life-changing quote: "Dare I disturb the dumb universe?"

To Ramon & Nev: I haven't started reading the other PP book but I loved the Ballad and it has made me want to watch out for his other 'drawn novels'!

and

The System by Peter Kuper

The System is composed of various stories of life in a big city that intertwine somehow, all told in fully-painted pictures with no words.

Off the book's review page: "Peter Kuper's The System is just like New York - totally sleazy and totally cool." - Bill Plympton

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And thanks to the Little Green Footballs script, I now have a referrers page.