Friday's events....

went to SVA show for graduating Masters of Teaching Art--my friend Samantha was one of the graduates, glad that I went, saw a lot of interesting paintings and showing--I was very impressed by the way each artist described their vision. Samantha's was a series of rocks with drawings inside the paper---very telling. Really was impressed with all the work---art is like a poem, to be taken very personally by the viewer.
After that was over, had some time to kill, started to rain, went to Two Boots for a slice then had coffee nearby--read a lot of the short story by Delmore Schwartz that I had started on the train back from Providence. Interesting, am now (Saturday morning) reading Middlemarch, and I will have it with me the whole day. Some very telling and perceptive (for that time) writing on page 716. This is a hard book to read, but moments show you how aware George Eliot was of the world that offered women very little freedom at that time. Different from  Jane Austen...? Somewhat, should read a little more of Austen before I make that final decision.
 When rain finally stopped, walked from Bank street and Seventh to Standings (2nd and 7th). Crossed eighth street between fifth and sixth---amazed at how many new restaurants and bars have opened on that block simply in the past year or so. When the Fringe office was located on 5th and Eighth street, barely anything occupied the block between fifth and sixth, just a few coffee places. Now it is filled with people on a Friday evening (of course) Anyway, got to Standings, watched baseball for a couple of hours (said hello to my friend Ryan and his wife and son, but no real conversations) and had their pizza, much better than the Two Boots.
 This morning, read more of the Tynan bio,  then here at library, later the library on Corelyou to talk about march on 8/13 and the poster that is being created for it. Anti gentrification teach in scheduled for tomorrow at Brooklyn Museum has been put back two weeks---good! Need a rest tomorrow, everything is far too frenetic for me, also will give me a chance to spread the word and maybe even do some flyering for it.
Tomorrow, want to have some unstructured time, check in with David (my brother) and give him my travel-baseball reports---hit the library in Brooklyn and maybe "hang" at South fourtrh for a while in the early evening. Maybe my friend Harlo will be there and we can discuss Village Voice article about kiosks with wi-fi.
  That's all for now...