Left to Right:

“Bellow is so much more elegant…”

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“Perhaps, but Roth is so real, and vital; I don’t imagine anyone else can voice a character like he does.”

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“Boo. I’m from Chicago, I choose Bellow.”

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Silently, to himself: “Heathens! I’ll lay odds none of them has read Voltaire in the original French!”

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“Elegance? it’s Fitzgerald in a class by himself.”

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“Yes. I thought so, and then I read Waugh and was so moved I went out and bought a new wardrobe to match that ‘England between the wars’ vibe. Cost me a small fortune, so I started waiting tables after work…”

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“Oh, come on. If you must search for elegance on that tongue than read Oscar Wilde, there is no better. Otherwise head to the continent and pick up some Proust.”

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Silently, to himself, “Ugh, these people! I can’t wait to curl up with some low-brow fiction tonight.”

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“Pay no mind to how long the book is, DeLillo is worth the investment in time. Besides, you’ll be lost in the storytelling and won’t notice the hours flying by.”

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“Wallace was the same for me. I read the opus several times, even backwards and sideways and never found it tedious.”

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Silently, to himself: “Am I the only one in here that would rather watch a ballgame on T.V.?”

-Danny Grosso

Left to right:

Silently, to herself: “Schnabel once used dishes like this back in the ’80s for those big paintings that helped make him famous…”.

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“Rothko is clearly, (or hazily, if you consider how the work presents) better – he started that movement when he passed from figurative urban vignettes to pure abstraction.”

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“But Frankenthaler refined it so. She dyed those canvases with a lighter touch, and expanded the palette in ways to create more movement and space. Those chunky blocks became passe’. Lets talk free form, lets talk freedom.”

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“I like flowers and Monet does them best, so he’s my guy.”

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Yeah, well how about Van Gogh’s irises? So punk!”

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“Pollack is great if you are listening to Jazz”.

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“No, no, no – Jazz is the soundtrack for Stuart Davis” work – much more symbiosis there than with Pollack.”

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“Hey, boss, can we plate this masterpiece I just cooked up?”

-Danny Grosso

Left to right:

“Snorkie, Snorkie, Snorkie…what are you say…”

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“I’m tellin’ you Doc – ain’t no way she knows whose shoes those are!”

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Silently singing a Waterboys tune to herself: “I saw a rain dirty valley…you saw Brigadoon!”

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“Two Emerald Isle Cocktails, Marty.”

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Silently to himself: “Do I have any Midori?”

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“He’s looking?’

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“Not sure.”

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“He’s looking. Aaaaand in other news, this guy next to me is either going to propose or fall on me.”

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“I propose that I fall FOR you – how ’bout that, lady?”

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Ha! He really did that?”

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“Yeah, hit on his own wife, but he didn’t recognize her! She even asked him to say her name before she left in a huff. He was so drunk he couldn’t remember it. Meanwhile, he had another shot, and now he’s onto those supermodels next to us!”

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Dreaming of a fun place to hang out with interesting people: “Zzzzzz…”

-Danny Grosso