Friday Night Plans

Ah Friday, the final day of the grueling work week. Well, grueling if you actually do anything at work, for me it's less grueling and more the-most-excruciatingly-tedious-wasting-of-my-life...but you get the point. Anyway, Friday, for all its obvious merit, does produce a high level of anxiety in many worker bees, when they finally come up for air from underneath their mountain of paperwork to discover that they haven't made any weekend plans, and may find themselves snuggling with Ben and Jerry on their futon, while the rest of the world is doing something infinitely cooler than they have ever been a part of (okay, maybe I'm projecting a bit here, but still).

Fortunately, ya'll have Queenan to guide you to a Friday night event certain to leave you feeling very trendy-underground New York. Now ya'll know I usually don't promote other folks on my blog, it's hard for me to write about something other than myself at times, but today I shall make an exception to bring you a performance by the greatest undiscovered pop singer in the tri-county area... Risa (so cool, in fact, she only has one name). She will be performing at 8pm at the Lion's Den 214 Sullivan Street (yes I know this is below 42nd Street and so ya'll know she must be good if I'm going to haul my cookies all the way downtown, but the Village does add something to the "cool" factor...let's hope it rubs off - plus there's alcohol so you'll hardly even notice the trip home)

Now I wouldn't be telling you to make the trek if she were just some mediocre, guitar-strumming, coffee-house talent. I think by now I've established my abhorrence of wannabes, so please understand that I hold her in the highest esteem and am sure you will too. So now you know your options: gain 5 lbs of ice cream and take-out or participate in the discovery of a rising star...it's your choice, but remember - this is the season of the skinny jean not the Chubby Hubby