NYC. I think it may well be fluffcthulhu's equivalent of an all you can eat sushi bar.

Personally, I think both the Museum of Natural History and the art musuem (not MOMA, the other big one who's name I'm spacing on) are really wifty -- the latter because of the incredibly killer Egypt Collection.

But that's me.

There's a bar called "dba" that apparently has Real Ale. Just so you know.

Hope you had a good birthday. We must have celebrations in Ed when you get home. We could finally organise a fancy dress piss up?

I saw The Frogs in New York on my way back from Worldcon, and enjoyed it tremendously. (This isn't the Aristophanes play, it's the Burt Shevelove/Stephen Sondheim/Nathan Lane version in which Dionysos, disillusioned by the Peloponnesian War and the general failure of leadership, goes to Hades to bring back George Bernard Shaw. Very topical, and refreshingly liberal in its attitude that art can change the world.)

Wish I could've joined you!

The Milk Bar and the Raven in NYC amused me, but they're not great for ale. Some of the Irish bars are OK, though...

Congratulations.

As for NY; why not go and see the big, white aeroplane with the pointy ends?