travels, yesterday, and, feeling no pressure to do anything and having no plans, decided to nap for about an hour. The time was around 6, Imagine his surprise when he awoke at a little after 11. Amazing! Wow! He must have been really tired. First time in a long time this has happened---puts a crimp into my "every evening is an evening to go out" vision of life. Kind of disorienting---I did go out later to buy some chicken and coffee---then read a little and went to sleep.
At the library near Columbia, I found the first of the two autobiographical books I was looking for.
A Stone of Hope, by Jim St Germain. The author was brought to southern Crown Heights in 2000, (then an all black community) and lived a life of isolation, rage and hostility until an arrest three years later turned him around. A vivid description of the jungle that was the blocks around where he lived in those four years. Crown Street near Nostrand. I read about the block, the isolation, the absence of any white or authority figures at all, the cramped apartments, the drugs being sold in the lobby, and I am amazed when I realize that this is exactly the next neighborhood to be gentrified---the very one that BAN is fighting to protect. Then it was a jungle, now the landlords salivate at the millenials who they hope will want to get apartments there, having been priced out of near by Prospect Heights, and southern Crown Heights. It is a great read---very intense--the author is very honest about his inner rage and his need to hurt anyone who he feels is an enemy, no matter what the consequences. Can't wait to get back to it this afternoon.
This evening, my friend Harlo has invited me to a screening of documentary about security, after which she will participate in a panel on the subject. That will be my evening "adventure", might be followed up with a visit to a near by bar, or something like that. Will report tomorrow.
I had hoped to book tickets for the TFANA Measure for Measure for Sunday evening, but it is not on TDF any more (it must have been taken off earlier today). Kind of annoyed about that--it only plays one more week---and "real" tickets are far too expensive. They have reasonable discounts for students and young people, but to my chagrin, they must believe that anyone over 40 can afford their prices (85-95). I guess in their head (and in the head of so many other not for profit theaters) is that if you are white and over 60---you can afford to pay those prices. Well bleep them. I assume it will be on TDF next week---will try to see it then---if not---too bad.
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