KristyWes

Green Goblin in Gotham

My friend Mali came into town this weekend with her brother and sister-in-law. We went to see the Pixar exhibit at the MoMa, and then strolled the streets for awhile. I like having out-of-town guests come - showing them around reminds me that I'm a New Yorker now and I know where I'm going. Kind of.

After seeing some sights, we went back to their hotel to rest before dinner. Spider-Man was on TV, so we absent-mindedly watched Toby McGuire (Spidey) battle Willem Dafoe (the Green Goblin).

Then it was time to meet Mali's cousin for dinner. This cousin, as it turns out, lives about 6 blocks away from me. He took the 4 of us to one of his favorite restaurants, Quartino, in NoHo. It's a cozy little place. As we started on our appetizer, Willem Dafoe and party were seated at the table right next to us!

This was my first celebrity-sighting since moving to NYC. I hold to a certain theory that there are 2 types of people: those that see famous people, and those that do not. I fall into the latter category (excepting that brief encounter 10 yrs ago with Wallace Shawn in a Charlottesville copy shop).

I believe Mali's cousin is of the former category, and since we were dining with him, we had the fortune to catch a glimpse of the Green Goblin himself. Mr. Dafoe, by the way, dined on fettucini with pesto. Not that I was watching him or anything...