This weekend...

Well, the highlight was seeing Will Arbury;s play, Heroes of the fourth Turning at Playwrights. Very well written, with a surprising climax that left me shattered. Wonderful acting from the five principals. The characters are all alumni or connected by family to an Evangelist Church, and they are there for a reunion. Lots of conversations--personal and political---finally an explosion at the end. Very glad that I went; I wonder if Regional Theaters around the country will pick up on it--with five characters and really one set, it would be very easy to produce. But since these characters are all Republicans (though questioning) some theaters might feel their audiences might not want to see it. It will be interesting to see how this evolves.

 Yesterday, a kind of'normal" Sunday, started off at Cobra---first time there in three weeks---nice to see my bartender friend Olivia--then over to Molasses, the bookstore to hang out with Matt Maggie, and Tuli, their month old son). After that took the DeKalb avenue bus to downtown, did stop off at a new used bookstore and coffee shop at Nostrand and Kosciosco---kind of nice--an interesting selection of used books. Ended up (of course) at Gotham Market and spent some time at the Fiction Center---thought I might go to a movie, but by 6 was tired---that hour that was "gained" did not help me at all. So I returned home.

 Most of my reading this weekend was of the Brent Easton Ellis memoir White---a very well written dialogue about his writing history, his younger days in New York when one could live in the city fairly cheaply, and finally his complaints about (I guess) "liberal righteousness" , or what he sees of it in LA, where he now lives. He makes some very telling points---would enjoy having a dialogue with him. He has a lot of Twitter followers---I don't do Twitter, so I will not be one of them. But it was a very good read. 

 Tonight, the party for the TEAM theater group that I have known for now about 13 years. It will be deep in Carroll Gardens---I don't have to be there until 8:30---since I am not working at Friends today, and as of now, have only one session, I should be in pretty good shape to go and party. Will report soon.