today we stopped outside balthazar in our car on the way to chinatown. i told fede- this is the brunch place your friends were talking about. then i see a familiar asian girl standing outside and all of a sudden i realize that she is the model on the saks 5th ave ads where she has a black chick in one arm and a white chick in another for political correctness and wider racial appeal. i squealed in excitement so much that she heard me through the cab window and turned and smiled. it was sort of a mona lisa moment.