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 I had the pleasure this evening of wandering the town with a good friend and awesome NY poet Jon Sands. It's always fun to explore a new place with an old friend, especially when you both have lived together in a different place; in our case Athens Ohio and now Manhattan. And, being as that we are both active in the literary and poetic communities (albeit I am not really a part of the NYC scene yet due to my recent arrival) and have grand ideas about the world and our writings.
The adventure started out with a meeting at the Bowery Poetry Club, a really interesting little place that seems to be one of the epicenters of poetry, esp slam, in the Manhahttan area. From there we wandered and grabbed a bite to eat at a cool little place with a lot of veg. and vegan food, but I forget the name now. Cool little place. Then we wandered around the Houston area, hit a really cool theatre and decided to grab a flick. Since we had a bit of time to kill, he took me to the Bluestockings Bookstore, which is on at 172 Allen St. (@ Stanton) in the Lower East Side. It is an amazing space which, according to their bookmark I grabbed, a "Fair Trade Cafe and Activist Center." It was really amazing. Reminded me of the old Secret Sailor Books, or Crazy Horse Books or Internationalist Books. Something like those... Anyway, definitely worth checking out.
We chose, after a quarter toss for luck, Hamlet 2. I didn't really know what to expect, but it turned out to be amazing. I would HIGHLY recommend everyone go see it, I enjoyed it that much.
Our wanderings took us around the Lower East Side, West Side/Chelsea, the edge of the Village and then back almost into "alphabet soup" area, as I am learning it's often referred to here. Then made a loop through the Union Sq. area, and watched an awesome little game of 4v4 soccer up my the subway entrances on the little flat courtyard. It looked SWEET!! I can't wait to jump in one of those games sometime. A bunch of young kids about my age, maybe even younger, all good players, but mostly friendly. A big crowd sitting around the area watching, socializing, it was almost sensory overload. That's actually the first time I had hung out through there after midnight and there was a TON of young people there, just sitting and chilling, doing whatever; eating, playing on their laptops, talking, playing soccer, skateboarding, bikes, you name it. Definitely will be back there more now that I know what I'm missing.
After that we took a walk up towards his place on the West Side in Chelsea, and then headed down to explore the town some more, eventually wandering down into the 2nd/3rd St. area and St. Mark's, saw some more cool stuff there, a lot of young people out there too, and then eventually swung up 2nd Ave. and made our way back to our respective homes. All in all, a great night, and really helpful for starting to get a visual map in my head of where in the heck I am. Well, that's it for the adventures tonight. Sorry no good pictures to add with the post tonight, but hopefully I will have some next time. Until then, ta ta!
-ps. A friend of mine wrote a nice OpEd about Obama and responding to a recent OpEd by David Brooks. Check it out!
ciao,
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Posted by horatio on Sunday, August 31, 2008 (05:58:08) (284 reads) [ Administration ]
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