Yuri bought a book called HOW I WROTE CERTAIN OF MY BOOKS, which I thought was a hysterical and overly lofty title. Yuri is into Duchamp, and this writer influenced Duchamp. Yuri is a conceptual artist and has had much of his work published in books on Russian Conceptual Art. He is funny and has a severe intellectual side. Patrik on the other hand is growing up an inch at a time on his first trip "abroad." He is twenty five and I thought he just needed a bit of independence. He lives in a typical situation in Eastern Europe. His entire family lives together in the same apartment. He never had to cook his own food before he came here.

When we were looking for a place to eat he said, "I want to sit down and tell them what I want and have them bring it to me." But in the search for such a place that also served hamburgers, another qualification, we ended up at Bongo Burger, a Greek semi-cafeteria style burger joint. I had the giant bongo burger which was giant with fries and tea. Yuri had the Persian burger and Patrik the shish-ka-bob burger. Patrik ordered his own food and got up to get it when they called his number. The past couple times we have been out he asked me what I was ordering then ordered the exact same thing.