sad, sad....

the news about the killing of the Muslim young women over the weekend. One event that one reads about seems worse than the other. What does one do to reverse this carnage?  I don't feel hopeless, only angry.
Report on yesterday: if you feel like continuing--I did not attend the meeting in Brooklyn in protest against the armory. Too tired, and also I felt like it would be difficult traveling into Brooklyn with all the rain. Will try to find what happened during the day. So far no posts that I have seen about it.
I did get to my friend's Comedy Club, located in a small theater on in the basement of a supermarket in Chelsea---this theater was actually the first home of the now very powerful Roundabout theater---I was a half hearted member of that group in 1967 (they were taking everybody) . The guy who ran it, who later piloted the theater into its prominence was for me, a total fraud. This was the time in the city when the off Broadway theater had fallen  apart, and these almost amateur groups were springing up, and getting some press attention. It was not a good experience. Yet they continued in their mediocrity and grew into what they are now.. On same level it is amazing to me that that was possible--on some level.....anyway, this was my first viewing of a comedy evening, it consisted of two different groups, each got about 30 minutes for a number of short skits. My friend was not in the first group---their comedy was pretty sharp and certainly a cut above the open mike stuff that I catch on Sunday nights at South fourth. He was in the second group, and though I liked his work I found the groups ideas fairly obvious. It is a strange environment, almost all white kids between 20 and 40, they really love the stuff---the content stayed away from anything remotely serious in the twenty something world---sex, housing, gentrification, economic pressures were not explored at all.
  I finished the evening at Jake's Saloon, the bar that I also hung out in last Monday after the BAN meeting. It is becoming my Monday spot. Nothing special, but plenty of sports, on the bartenders are very nice. The bar's menu has nothing below $11.00, so it hard to think about eating there, but it is a good place to know around 7th and 23rd Street. Still many other bars that I have promised myself I would check out, at least three in Brooklyn, that at some point I would like to visit.
 Tonight the plan is to try to get into Sibyl's piece at the Whitney---I had a lot of trouble logging in last week and by the time it was fixed, the piece was all sold out. Nevertheless, I will get there at around 9:30 and put myself on a wait list. Hopefully I will get in---I like these solstice celebrations
and see a lot of people that I know.The last two were early morning experiences, which made them even more unique, this might lead to some late night hanging out.
Anyway, will report tomorrow.