since connecting three years ago through Facebook. Despite swapping home-bases -- Dessner moved from Brooklyn to Copenhagen, where his wife grew up, and Meyer moved his family from Copenhagen to Manhattan to open his restaurant Agern -- they co-own a bar together and are co-investors in a football league. "People like Claus are dedicated to their craft and innovating," Dessner said at one point over beers they were taste testing specially for the festival.

Maybe that’s why the touch-base with Meyer turned into something bigger. Long after the tartare and soup and ceviche were gone, their conversation continued on into the night. Here is an excerpt from that chat.

So you guys connected on Facebook initially.

AD: Christina, Claus’ wife, sent my wife a Facebook message about Apple Flower, the festivalseems doomed to remain in the 1970s forever.

Friday, February 26, 2010

A missing sock joke. I haven't heard one of those since 20 Aught-7. I remember back in 1915 when the Kaiser was blamed for the missing socks. That's really what started World War I, which at the time was called the Atlantic Debacle. Some say the harshness of our punishment of Germany led to World War II, which was originally called The Second World War I, but I think the cause was really because we had started taking the German's socks.

Seven, Cassius, Tara and Nicholas followed the trail into Eminence. Eminence was a decent sized town with a central business district surrounded by a hodge-podge of houses. The center of town boasted such businesses as a hardware store,