frustrated because.....

I read a terrific article in the Daily News Opinion section yesterday and I can't find it on their web site, or if I google it--and I wanted all my friends and acquaintances to read it. It is titled: Two Nations, Read and Blue. It sees the current  President as only a small part of a larger problem, the disconnect between the urban cities of wealth and the rest of America. According to the article, these cities and their inhabitants have cut themselves off from the rest of America. Who? The tech class, the creative class, the moneyed class simply live in a world of their own. . It ends on a discouraging note---I think it is a very important statement. I will try to get it to as many people as possible.
(Maybe the authors have a facebook page.)
       Adventures of the weekend. When we left off, cityboy was about to embark to Brooklyn to due some polling for City Council candidate Fox. It was hot, and my partner and I canvassed three buildings on Crown Street, with very little success. We spoke to one or two people, but few were home, some would not answer the door, and it was hot. After three apartment houses, my partner and I had had enough, and we returned to the campaign headquarters. I informed Tyler, the leader there, that from now on, I would only help with data entry. That is as much as I can do; I want to dialogue with people, not knock on doors. Ironically, the street we canvassed on was the very one that Jim St Germain, the exciting author of A Stone of Hope, had grown up in. Only a few signs of the chaos and raucousness that he saw on that block sometimes 24 hours a day---later reading the end of the book, I found to my great astonishment that he still lives in the same apartment house. The whole vision of those streets and who is there now is fascinating to me---I must return and wander through those streets at some point in the future---during the summer.
After a slice of pizza, hunger still remained, and so I decided to have a blt at Mullanes---the sports bar, with the friendly service near BAM. I spent a lot of money (for me) but it was just something I had to do. The bartender was really nice; she saw my Brooklyn Is Not for Sale shirt, and was  impressed. What next?
   Well, I had walked a lot and climbed a lot of stairs, but I wanted to check out a movie---felt it was necessary---the BAM movie times were not good, so I slowly headed to Metrograph---love the energy of that place. Had two choices, settled on a new independent movie called, The Rehearsal---which was about a year in the life of young actors at an intense Canadian theater training school.
Well made, but it left me cold. I could not really see the point. Still, I loved soaking up the atmosphere in the lobby, and while I was waiting, read some really riveting chapters from The Devil Finds Work, a group of essays about the movies, by James Baldwin. 50 years ago (unbelievable!) I was put off by the very popular movie, In the Heat of the Night. Enjoyed reading Baldwin;s debunking of it---finally justified.
  Sunday, a day in Brooklyn. First hanging out at Cobra with bartender Matt, the musician and watching some baseball. Then a bit of "aimless" wandering, not sure what direction I wanted to head in, finally took the DeKalb bus into Bed-Stuy, and planned to take it to BAM, but it was crowded and slow, so I got off at Marcus Garvey and walked to Fulton. Very mellow, not much happening. From there, west on Fulton to Outpost for some Ice Coffee and some nice reading of Breakfast at Tiffany's (It gets much better as it builds), and then another long wait on Classon for a bus that would take me back to Williamsburg where I ended up at South Fourth. Glad that I did; I had a good conversation with friend Todd, a film maker, and met a new patron there, Nick, who does creative work at Vice.
I might be able to arrange an interview with the leaders of BAN with him. He seemed interested. Also there was a speech writer for DeBlasio---a little bit of a dangerous juxtaposition, but he seems like a nice guy. Left feeling excited by the conversation---and took the L home.
  Today a BAN meeting, some other issues, will report tomorrow.