Random stuff

· Yacht Club
· Little Gray Book Lecture #22: How to Gamble and Win. Wednesday, October 1st. 8PM at Galapagos. Go. You'll thank me later.
· I was reading this book in galley and I was on the last chapter when I lost it. And it was really good. (It's a satirical novel about life in DC by the political editor of the New Yorker. Due out in January.) And I was on the last chapter. Fuck.
· Tucked inside the book that I lost was a guest list for a dinner party I attended the night before at [uber-trader and bajillionaire hedge fund manager] Mr. Name Withheld's house. It was a fundraiser for Central Park and I was there for the magazine. Mr. Name Withheld asked me if I was "looking for the man of my dreams" and then cheerfully started pointing out his various sons--all in their mid-to-late 30s. Apparently, you're never too old or too rich to have your parents gleefully pawn you off on unsuspecting dinner guests.
· Joe Queenan on "Why New York Is Better [than everywhere else]"
· Unintentional satire: Joao Correia, who works in advertising, trekked down from Hell's Kitchen to eat brunch at Café Gitane and, afterwards, stop by Café Habana. "This place has the best café con leche," said Mr. Correia, who was wearing a pink Lacoste shirt turned up at the collar and a Frederique Constant watch bought on a recent trip to Portugal. The journey had another benefit. "There's not one ugly person in here," he said cheerfully.