H-h-h-h-happy N-n-n-n-new Y-y-y-y-year!
Only 13 hours into 2008, I checked off another item from my life’s big “To-Do” list when I finally made it down to Coney Island Beach on new year’s day to swim in the Atlantic with Brooklyn’s famous Polar Bear Club. This year’s swim was a benefit for Camp Sunshine, a retreat for terminally ill kids and their families, so not only did I get to fulfill a dream, I also was able to scrape up enough pledge money to get a commemorative “Freezin’ for a Reason” T-shirt to mark the auspicious event. Big ups go out to LCF and Alison, who hauled their asses out to the ocean with me this morning, hangover (LCF) and all, to hold my coat and take my picture and wrap me in a towel and robe after I took the plunge. The ocean was a daunting 41 degrees, and running into it produced such a rush of adrenaline, I was hyper and euphoric for hours afterwards. A soon as I was submerged, I couldn’t stop laughing and screaming and there were hundreds of crazy people all around me doing that too - just jumping up and down, yelping and squawking and shaking all over. Men were holding their nuts, women were chasing little kids through the surf, it was pandemonium of the best kind, and I wished I could have stayed in the waves longer, but by the time I got all the way up to the bodysurfing line I couldn’t feel my feet at all so I wriggled back onto shore after just a few minutes. After the swim, I had a big goofy grin plastered of my face for the rest of the day (see below). I wore that grin all the way back to Manhattan where we had brunch at Little Poland, and where I thought I was hallucinating over my pierogies when Chloe Sevigny walked in completely glammed out and waited with her friend for, like, ten minutes next to us until a table freed up. Seriously - this is the weirdest, most fucking awesome city evs.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
You are the most fucking awesome person evs!
January 4th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Yeah! What Han said!
Especially on a minimal amount of sleep and various cocktails in your system from the night before!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
you’re one cool cat em. It’s such a great shot of YOU, but…I just have to say:
what the fuck is up with that lady in front of you? she looks like she’s running away from jaws. utter fear. and is she wearing a freakin hoola skirt on her neck? she scares me.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I know! That’s one of the things I LOVE about that picture! At the moment the pic was taken I couldn’t see anything at all becuase without my glasses I’m totally blind, so I was kept blissfully ignorant of whatever it was that was making that lady be all like, “N-o-o-o-o-o-o!” She was probs just cold. It was pretty cold
January 7th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
D’ah! You rock so hard! And I adore your swimsuit. So stylish!
January 9th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
how is it possible that I didn’t know until now that you have a blog?
Awesome. I will now be reading several years worth of old entries in my spare time. Good times.
oh and happy new year, hope you are well!