Some good things.....

should be happening---nice to read the atlantic yards article on Froomkin, and the need to" identify bullshit"---also nice to read at Mr. Sullivan, the lone dissenter on the Mayor's Education committee.
Yesterday, went to the lounge on 106 street,between 3rd and Lex----to hear Mike play. An interesting bar, very heavily hispanic---felt like an outsider, but for the most part, everyone very cordial to me. Good place to know about, low pressured bar, it seems like one can stay there as long as one likes, good TV screens for the games, and it seems like the food is very good. Another revelation was walking down Lex from96 street, to 106 street---a trip that I would have dreaded about 12 years ago, and yet with the exception of the projects,which take up the 98-99 street block, area has become very gentrified. An upscale Italien bistro on the northeast corner of 100th or 101st looked very shi-shi. Still, too much buidling---the whole west side of97-98 street looks like it is slated for another high rise. Anyway, intersting night, and it was fun to walk down Lexington Avenue between 79 and 106 street.
Today,the second installment ofthe EST plays---including one by "my" playwright, M.Z. Ribalow. Wonder how many people I willsee there whom I know. Afterwards will end up atSouth Fourth, but before......? See what the whether is like on leaving EST.......