so here I am today....

a little winded (physically) but the day is totally open---I have time to explore all my "choices" which includes just reading for a couple of hours. But then there is a possible trip to Brooklyn--I would like to visit the used book store Molasses, which new friends of mine run. A couple of other things I could do in Brooklyn as well---hang out at the Fiction Center and explore the last leg of the Brooklyn march. And of course, a few other things as well. But at this point, I have not idea which path I will take.
  Yesterday--decided that it was important to see Tea and Sympathy at Metrograph, a movie that I first saw around Verterans Day 1957 (That's right, and I can tell you whom I saw it with as well then). While I would not characterize this move as a "big mistake"---the movie, or at least the first hour of it, was a big disappointment. It is clunky, obvious, and displays  a lot of toxic male aggressiveness. I think the play, from which it was adopted, had to be a little better. The main character of the play, a private school privileged high school student is an "off horse" around the campus and is thought to be gay. The movie could not deal with the gay issue, so here he is called "sister boy" because he is artsy and good at tennis and not football. But the razzing is so obvious that it gets tiresome. Nice to see Deborah Kerr, John Kerr and Leif Ericson in their original roles, but Kerr, an actor whom I really like, seems like he is trying to play "young"; at the same time, the other high school boys are all played by actors in their twenties---that is obvious.Oy! I was gone after an hour---pleased with that, but the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth.
 After that, off to Brooklyn and another protest in front of 227 Duffield. A group of us met outside the house, made some speeches and then marched around downtown Brooklyn, finishing up in the mall. Lots of good fight and spirit; obviously the house should be preserved, but of course real estate being what it is in this city, the landmark committee, the city department that can order its preservation, has not acted on it yet, and it is feared, will side with the owner-developer of the house, who wants to tear down the edifice and build 1uxury apartments there. The area is overdeveloped with those obnoxious things already, one can feel the aggressiveness of the real estate industry and its alliance with the city planners when one is present there. Protests will continue.
 The last part of the evening was at Mullane's, the sports bar near BAM, where with only one beer (very heavy) I was able to watch most of the Mets-Indians game. Left around 9:20, pretty tired, went home on the subway where I read a really good short story by Joseph Conrad---first of his I ever read---want to read more. That is all for now---let the day continue.