Sportsball Summer

53 years since the New York Knicks won the title and on this day they are 1 win away from clinching the title in 5 games. 

Knicks win! a huge number of new yorkers that don't even care about basketball came together for a few weeks of comradery and good vibes and good times 

back on the roof after seeing the mayhem in the street, to watch nyc themed music videos, there's a sleepy eric as usual.

Now its world cup fever. co hosted in USA, mexico and canada. We went to the society of illustrators 125th anniversary opening then to korea town to try and watch the korea vs mexico game but we couldn't get in anywhere so we had to cab it down to the east village to an irish pub then at halftime we ran over to Fat Buddah which is korean and now called Hidden Tiger. Korea lost. Korea played all its games in guadalajara mexico and on social media it was a big thing with all the mexico and korea fans mixing together and it being a giant cultural love fest. I've heard this is happening all over, small cities hosting teams' base camps and the world discovering america isn't bad and the people are friendly and supportive and everyone having fun, like Lawrence Kansas hosting the Algerian team basecamp and everyone loving it. Lots of social media and news clips of people around the world in america for the first time discovering it. Gives you hope. Sure after the world cup we'll descend back into the hyper divided politics and culture wars that we do but for now its nice to see the world's people (not the govts) get along

more sports ball summer, a tiny white ball. We played mario golf in ryan's studio for 6 hrs, eatin a giant box of costco dino nuggets, snacks, and beverages, just like i always wanted

gas station next to ryan's studio got deluxified and makes mexican food in there. Why can't all gas stations be like this?

we were gonna throw this bag of spend soil out, but life fins a way. it's gaennip and 20 leaves of it are like $5 at the korean market.

we finally did it, a season of fortnite where we made it to the final level in Ranked Reload No Build. Its the level of players where you WILL get shot out of the air if you parachute, get head shotted if you stick your head around a corner, people will land on you out of nowhere from the sky. Its scary. I feel like the sweet spot of fun vs not too easy is the Champion level

found on the train on the way to a Colombia vs Portugal game. 

it did not turn out to be a cool indie soccer comic

Diego is actually from Colombia and said we gotta go to Astoria to El Basurero to watch the game. Many other diaspora Colombians i know said this is the spot. We had to wait in line for like 30 minutes but were able to secure 2 tables

it was a draw which was fine cuz it meant Colombia still won their group over Portugal.

too much of this Colombia sugar cane liquor, Aguardiente

Karaoke afterwards of course. Sportsball summer will continue because there still more World Cup to come. Korea got eliminated in the first round the and govt is investigating the coach and the whole program i guess for corruption and probably just cuz they mad, Japan crushed it and made it to the knockout round but lost so they're out, Germany out. A lot of americans have world cup fever for the first time. Its a fun summer of all the diasporas showin' out

It Do Be Summer

look at this demented xmas ornament jen got from St John, why he look like that?

sunset park chinatown, so old school its either not on the internet or not in business. oddly next to the danish athletic club and the swedish football club, mysterious

the first FIT illustration senior party at society of illutrators or anywhere in 18 years. I was the guest speaker at the one 18 yrs ago and it felt special and i was like why didn't we have this and why don't these students have it now. Steven Tabbut really got it moving and dept coordinator Hadija found $2k and we made it happen and i think everyone had a blast, parents that came were impressed and a lot of the faculty came too. I hope we keep it going every year.

Also the 125th anniversary show was up with all the greats from 125 yrs on the wall including this Seymour Chwast. I have a piece in the show, probably cuz they have to include some contemporary people too.

Kimie's 40th bday party at Three's Brewing

what a way to stay healthy

Brewminaries 11th annual party, Adam's in it

our elevator was breaking all the time recently and i've heard its from the heat and the solution so far as been having this fan running all the time with the door propped open in the elevator room on the roof. WTF. Also our elevator is frequently breaking regardless of heat. Idk if this fan is the reason why it been working all the time now or what but that's crazy if thats it.

Mercario. The original Lonches Bañados, a Guadalajara tradition since 1953. This is by design an extremely messy sandwich, you can't tell but the entire thing is smothered with a tomato based sauce and they say you WILL get messy. It's delicious but idk why you would want a sandwich that is covered in sauce and you have to just straight up grab a sauce covered sandwich it makes no sense. Like a chicago italian beef is very messy but its clear liquid. If you are a person that's not freaked out by grabbing a completely sauce covered sandwich with your hands then this is delicious. They make one with no sauce on the outside but prob not as good.

the gym downstairs has their window open sometimes and the dog will get treats

got crazy in the bar during game Knicks game 3, he'd be under the pinball machines if it was a regular night anyway fyi

i hope they keep giving their poodle this mohawk cut can identify him amongst all the other poodles because they got in a fight once and the poodle started it so i gotta keep him away

all our cucumbers haven't turned green yet

season 1 of the simpsons but Disney ran it through some horrible up-res'ing software that made it look weird , they should just let it be 1989 quality and not this weird artifact ridden mess it is now.

The Last Lil Bit

 

Still snorkel tour day. the guide said try windmill bar and boy what a view overlooking hawksnest bay etc. it was $5 to park and you know me i wasn't happy about that but in this islands economy it was worth it.

dunno where this black came from but it wouldn't come off

double rainbow!

It was jens idea, we hired a private chef. it was awesome, it was expensive or course but worth it. No one wanted to go to town for 45 min up and down those roads for a fancy dinner and have to go back afterwards. Erin Pryor of Coral Bay Catering and forgot the name of sous chef made a beautiful night for us as we drank sunset cocktails and the nice bottles of wine we brought for this purpose

grouper, eel reduction sauce, forgot what else

forgot what this was, it was local greens though, which we were wishing we could buy but nowhere sells stuff like this

lobster on top of filet mignon on top of crazy good mashed potatoes on top of crazy good mushrooms and cream and brussels sprouts

challah bread home made icecream baked icecream

just wanted to stay in the hot tub under the stars drinkin seltzers all night

everyone wanted to be lazy the next day but i had a mission and i could see it from our hilltop house. There, Pelican rock, they said the snorkeling around it is awesome. The plan was to kayak to that lil beach on the right and avoid the owners of the beach which was plausible cuz that lil sandy section of beach was kinda separate from the rest. then swim out and snorkel pelican rock. it ended up not being dangerous at all, seems like all the snorkel spots are so protected there are just no waves. It was stormy before so the water was full of particulate and not great visibility but was still cool because it was OUR snorkel trip. of course we drank seltzers on the shore after and it was a blast (bobby motion sick tho and feeling bad)

we picked up supporting dishes for dinner several times over the trip at places in Coral bay like pates from Ekaete and stuff from Johnny Lime.

In the morning I ran down to the snorkel spot by the house to try to snorkel with the turtles that we always see in the mornings coming up for air but i didn't see any and then later saw them right where i was! It was a rush going down there by myself, nothing but the vast ocean ahead of me, low visibility, just toodlin' around the warm waters looking for turtles. Almost makes me want to cry, something about it being the last few minutes of our trip and i'm just floating out there in the blue, an insignificant little speck in the vast ocean with the fish who don't know what time is, they just are, and they still just are and they're out there in the beautiful blue azur waters of St John which seems like a million miles away sitting here in this brooklyn apartment which is very much somewhere, sometimes too much somewhere. 

We had to drop off jeeps at 10am with a full tank. of course they didnt have the cheapest 87 gas they only had the next level up. as we waited for the ferry we drank more painkillers, then had lunch and more painkillers, then the ferry and then taxi van to the airport (a PRIVATE one this time) and then another painkiller as we all waited for our flights. Trying to squeeze as much out of the trip at the end as possible.

parent's flight was before ours to rochester. HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY mom and dad, I hope it was a good week, thanks for having us, thanks for paying SO much money for the house and tours etc, and here's to 50 more years!!!! :::)