BOUND FOR LAGOO: Jumping on a flight to New York in a few, headed for an early AM meeting tomorrow. I'm meeting two old pals for dinner tonight. They're both NY residents, but try as I might I can't get them to pick a dinner spot. They keep saying, Where do you want to go? Okay, look, where do I wanna go? I wanna go to Bob-San, a great sushi spot. Trouble is it's here in Chicago. See I know Chicago. I'm what's a called a resident. So when you come here, no prob, I'll pick the place. But when I come to your city, howsabout steppin' up to the plate.

That said I'm hoping we do Taka, a little neighborhood sushi joint in the Village. Somehow I have a feeling we're gonna end up at Benny's Burritos, though. Whatever.