Last night at the BAN meeting, cityboy made a proposal for a flyer that would state on it something like: Who is Your City Council Person? What Does He or She Do? Did you know that..? Primaries for City Council are September 12 (or thereabouts) How do the choices of the City Council affect you.? That is the general gist of the flyer. It would be given out at or near venues like Jack, Bushwick Starr, the Starr Bar etc. So many young people living in Brooklyn have not allowed themselves to become aware that they can be involved in the process. Anyway, a few other BAN members expressed interest, and maybe by May 1st it can happen. This would be the first idea and plan that cityboy actually conceived himself.
Other than that, not much else since yesterday. Reading Paul Auster's novel 4321---it is amazing, an attempt to tell the story of the fifties and sixties (and probably more) in three different ways. A great page towards the end of 1:3 which encapsulates the events that made things change so quickly in summer of 1964---particularly the death of the three civil rights workers in Mississippi. Amazing that in some history courses that cover the sixties--this isn't even taught. Sometimes the novel goes a little too overboard on detail, but I really cannot wait to get back to it, that is how much I am enjoying it.
Today, after a session, I will go to Friends upper school classical concert---then not sure what is happening. Tomorrow, if there is no work, I might see Rusalka,at the Met. That's all for now, will report later...
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