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I've forgotten what this journal is for. Hm. When i read really old entries, i think about starting a new one because a very new consciousness has evolved. But continuity demands i do not ignore my past, as alien as parts of it seem now.
I had a great weekend. Friday was rainy so i stayed inside, journaled in my written book & continued reading Love in the Time of Cholera. I started that book many years ago when i was hoping for something beautiful, but at the time it couldn't live up to One Hundred Years of Solitude. I'm much more receptive to the book now; Marquez is great for summer reading. His aesthetics become apparent: he marks a wise family by their practice of keeping windows closed during hot days & opening them up only for cool night winds.
When Marquez writes about passion, it makes me a little angry & nostalgic. Pietro Crespi is one of my favorite literary characters of all time. Florentino Ariza is not as beautiful to me as Pietro Crespi was, but details of his ardency are just as poignant. He gobbles flower petals & drinks perfume to taste what he thinks his lover tastes like--he ends up laying in a pool of aromatic vomit near the docks.
I remember how i used to love like that; in a devotion that ate me up & crazed logic into a floating ethereal. My stars. I know it's not practical to sustain such practices; i stopped calling myself "lover" or "poet" but the romantic nobility still appeals to me. *sigh*
Anyway...
Saturday Santos & i volunteered at the MoCCA comic convention. I am still amused! Nerd prototypes from 'round the spectrum crawled out for the event & it was a lovely day. Will Jaffe, Kim Deitch, Molly Crabapple, and Charles Burns were among the notables. :) I perused a lot of really great work & had to sit on my hands really hard to not spend any money. I ate a REALLY good orange & hob-knobbed. I will have to track down 2 awesome things i didn't buy but still want: a comic about a guy who toured with GG Allin & a gray scale book of modern fairy tales featuring monsters such as Bops the Biscuit Eater. Just as soon as i can find those authors' cards in the stack of fliers from that day...
Saturday evening we left the con & met up with Becky (who carried the stack of comic she just finished drawing the night before) and stopped at F&B for food, then went back to Brooklyn. First visit to Brooklyn Sanctuary was absolutely gorgeous. There were rooftop screenings of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog and Serenity. Everything was summer evening perfect. During the intermission, Katelyn bumped into us & when the screenings finished, the four of us went down to the omgsobeautiful loft where there was dancing, hula hooping, jumping on a trampoline, laying on comfy beds, dodging the raver poi, smelling freshly baked treats, and playing with a guillotine. Drunk on wine, the boy & i walked home with happy starshines at our backs.
Sunday we stayed in bed for the right amount of time of 'too long' & went to Greenpoint for the Renegade Craft Fair. One of my favorite events every year, i will have to post pictures soon of what i bought. I'm still kicking myself for forgetting to take my camera with me. I love being in a field of so many creative DIYers. The best thing i didn't buy was a whittled mustache-on-a-stick. It would would like a pair of opera glasses, but give you an awesome curled black mustache instead of better eyesight. :D
The best thing i bought was a pin that says "Make Love, Not Warhol" I LOVE IT!
The most interesting thing was overhearing a big handful of people talk about how great Pittsburgh is now...
Sunday was also the re-discovery of Penny Licks. I'd walked past this Williamsburg dessert shop before, but it seemed like a mirage because i was unable to find it again once i went looking for it. It is delicious & delightful: they have $1 cones of vegan or regular ice cream that is just enough. Ted Leo played on the speakers & to say i enjoyed it would be an understatement. :)
Amazing vegan food & a bike ride across the bridge later... i couldn't have designed a better weekend.
That's the kind of stuff summer should be made of. Oh sigh o, sigh.
For anyone who would like to join me on an adventure, you should come to this tomorrow night because it will be guaranteed awesome: http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com/
Whew! Okay, yay re-connecting with LJ! Picker-upper of things that don't need to go in my archival journal! :p
I had a great weekend. Friday was rainy so i stayed inside, journaled in my written book & continued reading Love in the Time of Cholera. I started that book many years ago when i was hoping for something beautiful, but at the time it couldn't live up to One Hundred Years of Solitude. I'm much more receptive to the book now; Marquez is great for summer reading. His aesthetics become apparent: he marks a wise family by their practice of keeping windows closed during hot days & opening them up only for cool night winds.
When Marquez writes about passion, it makes me a little angry & nostalgic. Pietro Crespi is one of my favorite literary characters of all time. Florentino Ariza is not as beautiful to me as Pietro Crespi was, but details of his ardency are just as poignant. He gobbles flower petals & drinks perfume to taste what he thinks his lover tastes like--he ends up laying in a pool of aromatic vomit near the docks.
I remember how i used to love like that; in a devotion that ate me up & crazed logic into a floating ethereal. My stars. I know it's not practical to sustain such practices; i stopped calling myself "lover" or "poet" but the romantic nobility still appeals to me. *sigh*
Anyway...
Saturday Santos & i volunteered at the MoCCA comic convention. I am still amused! Nerd prototypes from 'round the spectrum crawled out for the event & it was a lovely day. Will Jaffe, Kim Deitch, Molly Crabapple, and Charles Burns were among the notables. :) I perused a lot of really great work & had to sit on my hands really hard to not spend any money. I ate a REALLY good orange & hob-knobbed. I will have to track down 2 awesome things i didn't buy but still want: a comic about a guy who toured with GG Allin & a gray scale book of modern fairy tales featuring monsters such as Bops the Biscuit Eater. Just as soon as i can find those authors' cards in the stack of fliers from that day...
Saturday evening we left the con & met up with Becky (who carried the stack of comic she just finished drawing the night before) and stopped at F&B for food, then went back to Brooklyn. First visit to Brooklyn Sanctuary was absolutely gorgeous. There were rooftop screenings of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog and Serenity. Everything was summer evening perfect. During the intermission, Katelyn bumped into us & when the screenings finished, the four of us went down to the omgsobeautiful loft where there was dancing, hula hooping, jumping on a trampoline, laying on comfy beds, dodging the raver poi, smelling freshly baked treats, and playing with a guillotine. Drunk on wine, the boy & i walked home with happy starshines at our backs.
Sunday we stayed in bed for the right amount of time of 'too long' & went to Greenpoint for the Renegade Craft Fair. One of my favorite events every year, i will have to post pictures soon of what i bought. I'm still kicking myself for forgetting to take my camera with me. I love being in a field of so many creative DIYers. The best thing i didn't buy was a whittled mustache-on-a-stick. It would would like a pair of opera glasses, but give you an awesome curled black mustache instead of better eyesight. :D
The best thing i bought was a pin that says "Make Love, Not Warhol" I LOVE IT!
The most interesting thing was overhearing a big handful of people talk about how great Pittsburgh is now...
Sunday was also the re-discovery of Penny Licks. I'd walked past this Williamsburg dessert shop before, but it seemed like a mirage because i was unable to find it again once i went looking for it. It is delicious & delightful: they have $1 cones of vegan or regular ice cream that is just enough. Ted Leo played on the speakers & to say i enjoyed it would be an understatement. :)
Amazing vegan food & a bike ride across the bridge later... i couldn't have designed a better weekend.
That's the kind of stuff summer should be made of. Oh sigh o, sigh.
For anyone who would like to join me on an adventure, you should come to this tomorrow night because it will be guaranteed awesome: http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com/
Whew! Okay, yay re-connecting with LJ! Picker-upper of things that don't need to go in my archival journal! :p