Amazing night...

last night, saw Bad and the Better by Amoralists---great evening of theater---better yet, going to bullmoose bar on 44street afterwards with Shayla and Zack, and meeting some of the actors, very gracious---it's amazing how much I enjoy those experiences---feel like I am part of the community, even if I am not the creative person in it. Had to fight with myself to go---very glad I did, this must be theater week for me; seeing four more plays between now and Sunday---taking a few more risks financially for the sake of excitement()I guess that is what you can call it)---less traveling around Brooklyn, well there are many weeks for that. Today will coninue to read the novel about the Jewish family reunion and play trivia at South Fourth.
Later....

entranced by...

Google maps and pictures of the building of the Bronx. Near the Concourse. Memories of a totally different world come immediately.. what does it mean...? Was it supposed to have lasted forever...a whole world changed. What else Cityboy? Well interesting day yesterday, contact with S, R, and L, mostly just by accident---got invited to a party Friday night in Bed-Stuy (gentrified part, anyway) and basically did okay. Woke up early, around 3, put things together, had coffee around 7:30, then, believe it or not, returned to bed until about 10:30 which is not what usually happens to cityboy. Have to wait it out till tonight, when I meet Molly and her group at Here. Maybe go up on the A to Dyckman and explore around there...not very hungry or thirsty, so I think beer and baseball is out. Will advise.....

Its hot in here...

in the library on Amsterdam and 83rd street, that is NO AC!!! Believe it. Interesting night last night, "forced" myself to see As You Like It in the park---really solid production, felt very good about going---would like to write a Daily Kos article about contrast between this audience and the group that went to the march on Sunday. aferwards, checked out 78 below, but so many young people, felt very out of place, other bars not much better ended up just getting yogurt and going home...was able to get to sleep, going Sunday to HERE, not sure about rest of week---maybe, just maybe Philadelphia next Thursday....later...

It turns out....

there was nothing to worry about.  Arrived at central park north and 8th around 2; lots of people milling about. Wandered down to Lenox and 110th, which was a sort of staging area. Had a few conversations, but  people not terribly friendly. Most groups stayed together. March began a little after three--met Cheryl, who had replaced Jamie at Friends in 09 on the march, we walked together.  Arrived at 78th street and fifth around 4:30; crowd very orderly and focused, no chanting, though the silence that the march required was not often heeded. Saw no one from the arts community; similarly most white people, and there were quite a few of them seemed either in high school or over 60. No presence of the "brunch set", or the intellectual liberal set---also conspicuous by their absense was the arts groups. Why? That would take a lot of comments. Anyway, felt really great that I did it. Bloomberg seems somewhat humbled by it. Will continue......

In two hours....

the march protesting Bloomberg's stop and frisk vision begins. With much ambivalence about the ramifications of attending, I plan to attend. At this point don't have a group to join; will just go. Much anxiety re what might happen, but at this point I am feeling very relaxed about participating. Will continue at the computer store and then head down to 110th street. Have a  few friends I can check in with. Will report probably tomorrow......

today is the first day....

not of the rest of your life, but of your vacation---there is NO possibility that you will be called to work from now until early September. Had an interesting day yesterday, spent too too much, must atone, long long walk from DeKalb and Bedford to South second and Kent---all for naught, but the walk was worth it. Tonight,the graduation, then maybe one more school event (the party for the teachers and staff) and that's all. Imagination wants to do things that may not be possible to do---what to read----fighting against serious novels or books about the 2008 crash. Found a pulp mystery outside my house this morning; will that help? Let's continue......

sort of a dead....

night....? Well, maybe, After considering many, yes many choices, chose Standings, the baseball bar on e. 7 street. Nice to see Ryan, and his baby---but never really have that good a time there. Conversations don't seem to happen and its a very male oriented clientele. Later went to Bean and read---actually find the Madorff book very interesting. Tonight the theater with Robin---before------? Well still holding on to the money, so another play seems to be out. Will wait the money out, possibly not see Venus in Furs, or Other Desert Cities---anyway, there is so much---movies----? Somehow just can't get into it---anyway, will have plenty of time in the next few weeks....see what happens....

yesterday night...

coming home on the F train---had a nice idea for the beginnng of a short story-----about a man who frequents bars, and the "garish nightmare" that the city becomes Friday after 6P.M. New York is the city of bars. There were bars he was treated well in; bars in which he would be avoided; bars in which he would be nurtured---bartenders who would be courteous; bartenders who would flirt with him; bartenders who would find him totally unecessary. There were pick up bars, where he might observe, thinking briefly, that he could participate in the rituals that were going on.Those were his choices, and as he stood on the cormer of Houston street and Second Avenue; or maybe Metropolitan Avenue and Lorimer Street; or Broadway and Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, the possibilities seemed infinite.
This was the gist of my vision (writing) how it could be fashioned into a narrative at the moment I don't know.
What of tonight...? Why do movies seem so offputting? Can try Pine Box in Bushwick and take it from there. Not sure, though. Two good days at Friends, winding down.......