Back to Big Eyes. Also The Bistro Formerly Known as Burrito King

And now, after our slight detour yesterday, we return to the important stuff. Does this girl have eyes, or what?

Last Saturday, The Evil Twins had a party at Barry's house. Barry and Brian were The Great PunkyDunky's very best friends all the years the Plotniks lived in Fashionable EPark. Actually, it wasn't very fashionable then. We'll get back to that.



Barry and Brian have turned into the same cool adults that anyone could have predicted who knew them as kids. Barry's got two boys and lives in LA; Brian's got a boy and a girl and lives in North Carolina. (In the photo below, Barry is holding Brian's kids.)

What an international family! Barry's father-in-law speaks Japanese and Portuguese, since he was born in Japan but grew up in Brazil. He and Plotnik spoke Japanese at the party. Wrong. He spoke Japanese. Purotniku-san nodded a lot.



Down on the lower right is Coach Skip, who is B and B's dad, and who was The Great Plotnik's coach on the Yankees Little League Team. That team featured Barry as the pitcher, Brian as first baseman and PD as second baseman. We lost every game.



Did someone use 'fashionable' and 'Epark' in the same sentence? Well, yes. It has now become an architectural signature on funky, I mean trendy EPark Avenue, to leave the old business signs standing when you open up your new bistro. This one takes the cake: The old Burrito King (sign still there) is now Bistro 15. Bistro 15. The Bistro Formerly Known as Burrito King.

The liquor store is still there, and the dumpsters.



PD related the story of seeing a line of five homies in front of the liquor store the other night, hanging out, like they've done since their grandfathers' time...except one of them was wearing a tuxedo. He was the valet parking attendant at Bistro 15.



Mr. That, above is kalanchoe. Next comes purple azalea.



White azalea


And barberry