Tuesday's vision

Afternoon-and suddenly it has struck me, I have to go to my second bank to withdraw money. This was all planned, but as it comes upon me, a panic begins to set in. Angry, because I can't get unemployment for the summer, and because I am usually rejected from tutoring jobs that are not referrals, because of my lack of degrees. I would like to make some money for August, but where? And how much does my own passivity play into this problem. Anyway, have enough for August---jobs are promised for end of August or early September. We'll see what happens.

Yesterday-----after South Fourth Street cafe, went to Stain---the "arts bar" on Grand, close to Bushwick Avenue. Nice place---but I was the only one there. The bartender, a nice guy named Jethroe (cuban) was eager to talk, so there was no problem with contact. Will go back and visit him again.
Found a copy of Brooklyn Rail, a really nice article on current idealism, getting out of Iraq, and what the meaning of grassroots activism is, by Tom Hayden. All true, yet as long as there are people who essentially measure their success in terms of wealth, and nothing else,(and consider that to be the meaning of "freedom") how much change can be acccomplished?

Yesterday evening, after leaving South fourth, walked down Wythe Avenue, into the North Side.
Totally quiet---passed Zebulon, seemed like a nice place, but then many gaping holes as I got closer to the epicenter of Williamsburg (North sixth and seventh). Are these all going to be luxury buildings? How much can the city take. Will New Yorkers realize that the two men responsable for the vision behind all this building----Mayor Bloomberg and his deputy director of development Dan Doctoroff, never held public office before the 2001 elections, therefore, they have never felt any responsability to the voting populace. Even the most corrupt or minimal politician understands that he or she is on some level beholden to the people who elected him.

Anyway, time to move on.......