Revel and remind…

I was not a good international worker yesterday. I didn’t strike, generally, instead I showed up for work and walked past the mini protests at Bryant Park in the morning. I did however put some of my ill-gotten earnings to use in support of a good cause, heading downtown in the evening to help celebrate the book release of all-American Kate Bornstein, who inhabited (rather than occupied) Dixon Place, making it glow with grace, and truth, and gathered well wishers.

It was an evening of rock and roll in the best sense, and it sent me back to my San Francisco days. You hear what you need to hear, if you’re lucky. And these days, it seems like I need to hear about fearlessness, about leaping past boundaries, and about putting in the work. I’ve been in fear for much of the past year, I think, at least fear about my public life. I want to plow that under, and recapture some joyousness. Kate and all the people who celebrated her last night gave me that. Gratitude to all of them for that.

You should buy her new book, if possible from Bluestockings.

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The writing is on what exactly?

Back to trying: trying to keep track of spending, trying to keep track of calories, trying to keep track of emails and other things, and trying to gain momentum. Trying to post here. Trying to be self forgiving. Trying to manage technology without being a greedy chump. Trying to clean the house the dog the… Continue Reading

You don’t need me to tell you what’s wrong with art fairs…

I took myself over to the Armory Art Fair and its tiny twin Volta yesterday. I’ve been curmudgeonly about fairs for quite a while, so generally I don’t go. They are a business that seems to succeed despite the fact that almost nobody I know enjoys them: artists are either pissed that they aren’t included… Continue Reading

A house guest makes one lift the seat…

Ominously warm here in New York today. After all of the crush and tumble of the past few weeks (months really), a regular day on the job seems like a sinful luxury, one that I extended by skipping any social events (tonight is Pleasure Salon), picking up a couple of comic books and heading home… Continue Reading

Back from Vacation…

I can’t believe that it’s been over two months since I last posted here. A ton has happened in that time, but the impulse to write about it has been utterly gone. The difference today is that there have been a number of bits of good news, events that have been affirming inside and out,… Continue Reading

The workaday world

Ran by the office today to take care of a few things before the NYE celebration. I have to confess that I am glad that the year has come to a close. While not tragic, much of this year has felt to me like I had hold of the wrong end of a racing lion…. Continue Reading

Aren’t you glad he’s not a dentist?

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Slow motion.

I woke twice during the night. Both times I was dreaming dreaming about being behind the wheel of a car driving very slowly into a steadily worsening situation. “A slow-motion nightmare?” I asked myself as panic forced my eyes open. When I woke for real, the morning sky was wintery for the first time in… Continue Reading

Is it the air in here?

Spent the afternoon at hipster central: The Brooklyn Comic Art and Graphics show and while it wasn’t the transcendent experience it was last year, I still managed to have a good time before the agoraphobia kicked in and I had to beat a retreat to greater Williamsburg and from thence to home. It’s funny, but… Continue Reading

Do what?

Don’t quite know why I’m feeling as rushed and crushed as I am these days. This semester has tumbled by at work, and I feel like I can barely get my head around the very fact of 2011 itself, now that it is crumbling into dust around me. All in all I feel like I’ve… Continue Reading