Topics: days off, Bobbi's Italian Beef, Haven, The Dutch, Spring Lounge, Wingbar, L'Industrie Pizzeria, holiday parties, I Get Wild + Balthrop Alabama at Littlefield, Bonny Light Horseman + Cassandra Jenkins at Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus, new glasses.