getting ready for "the heat"---this weekend, beginning in a little while, is supposed to be one of the hottest the city has ever experienced. Where does that leave you, cityboy? Well, lots of options, and the libraries have good air conditioning. Movies..? Maybe--this afternoon there is a free one from 1950 at the library on 96th Street between Park and Lexington. Might go there. Tonight there is a rally in Brooklyn in front of a beloved ice cream store that has served the community for 35 years, but is threatened with eviction by its landlord. Will go---want very much to participate in that---but have to make sure that the subways will not be crippled by the heat wave. Otherwise, might go into Brooklyn earlier, but at this point, it is best to stay in Manhattan until around 5.
The ice cream store is in Flatbush, the area directly south of Eastern Parkway, an area that fascinates me. As I have said many times, if my parents were teachers Brooklyn, instead of in the Bronx, it is possible that that area would have been my home. As it is, the neighborhoods in Brooklyn, like the immense one in Flatbush would have been mostly Jewish, kids playing stick ball on the street, talking about the Giants and Dodgers, all encouraged by their parents to be upwardly mobile. Where are those kids today? In the suburbs? The West Side..Park Slope,,,Cambridge..? They did well. And you, cityboy..? Scuttling along on your controlled 'vision"? Where are you in this equation? Well, you have your memory, if nothing else.
Looked in the mirror at my reflection a few minutes ago---shocked at how "elderly" I looked, could not believe this was the person who thinks and feels out of my body. Probably I am being a little tough on myself, but it was kind of startling.
Last night---did go to a movie---Rojo, a very intense piece about fascism coming to Argentina in the mid seventies. A kind of controlled brutality moves through the movie---I left feeling a little brutalized--disappointed in what..? Did I want something less cynical--this movie makes it clear that the bourgeois cooperated or at least was passively complicit in the takeover by the authoritarian government at that time. Returned home around 9---decided that I was too tired to hit a bar---and just remained there for the rest of the evening. Woke up on a kind of downer---remember, cityboy, you always feel better if you spend most of your evening away from the apartment.
Just got my second ticket for my DC trip in four weekends. Should be fun---will see my friend Bob
from high school on the Sunday, Saturday, I guess I am on my own. On my own in Washington DC/
Interesting-well, we will see.
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