so there I was....

at Lansdowne Road, last night, watching simultaneously the Mets and the NBA Playoff Game, when the tv right in the center of the bar switched to the Oriole game. The Oriole game?!!!! Why? The gentleman who requested it, told me he had come from Baltimore, he was there with his wife, and when he told me that, I told him that I knew the city from my days as an undergraduate at Hopkins. Conversation ensued, much discussion about places and memories of being near the old Memorial Stadium where the Orioles played before moving to Camden Yards. He was raised near it, and of course, if you were a student in the dorm at Hopkins or living in the vicinity, you could easily walk there. Turns out he is a producer-writer of a new TV show that he is working on in conjunction with a well known writer-producer. It is a show about the old, ratty 42nd street of the seventies and eighties, and he told me they were looking at locations for the street in Washington Heights, that is how much things have changed since then. Since I know there will be many minorities in the series, I suggested that he see Skeleton Crew, because the four actors in that were so good and so appropriate for his series. I also suggested that he read The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nihisi Coates' first book, and autobiography in which his boyhood in an all black neighborhood in Baltimore, far away from where my bar friend grew up, is described.My new friend is a light skinned black man, he may have much in common with Ta Nihisi. We left it at that, he told me that he and his wife hang out at this bar mostly during the week, I will try to come back in about two weeks and see if he has done either of the two things that I suggested. He did not take my e-mail or I his, so no other way of getting in touch.
       Have to say that this discussion did prompt some fantasies of my being much praised for my ability to find very strong actors. Could this lead to something else. Just when I have solidified my place at Friends and as a tutor to the students who I see at the library---will something else, a visit to "the other world" the world of art come in as well, causing some confusion? Don't know, but this has been running around my mind. Hard to say where (if any where) this is all going?
    Rest of day kind of normal, today apartment is being cleaned, then one session then probably go down and join Jen at her birthday party, then back to Friends for Chamber  Concert, then...Jen's continuation?
We shall see, will report as soon as possible...