So I go to the Danesh Museum of Art for a Magic Lantern show. Takes an hour to get there in the snow. Its somewhere on Madson near 57th. No show! I had misread the flyer and got the wrong weekend.
Decide to check out "First Night" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the first Sat of the Month is free, with talks, movies, and a great dance. Takes an hour to get there. I even check the website to double check. (Can you see it coming?) Cancelled due to the blizzard!
So I go Contra Dancing instead. See old friends and actually have a good time! But I get chewed out for no good reason, the girl I liked defintely does not like me, and I end up drinking brandy with an old guy I actaully like discussing the finer points of electro magnetic radiation! Not a total loss but I would say a wash for the evening.
Hope today is better, a four hour intensive workshop in Salsa with an old friend.
Decide to check out "First Night" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the first Sat of the Month is free, with talks, movies, and a great dance. Takes an hour to get there. I even check the website to double check. (Can you see it coming?) Cancelled due to the blizzard!
So I go Contra Dancing instead. See old friends and actually have a good time! But I get chewed out for no good reason, the girl I liked defintely does not like me, and I end up drinking brandy with an old guy I actaully like discussing the finer points of electro magnetic radiation! Not a total loss but I would say a wash for the evening.
Hope today is better, a four hour intensive workshop in Salsa with an old friend.
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the thing a/b this book i 'm reading - Under the Banner of Heaven - is that there are these large communities of fundamentalists practicing polygamy - BREAKING THE LAW right under the nose of the US government - and nobody is doing anything a/b it! i mean, in theese communities that are 99.9% fundamentalist there is no TV, no books or movies or magazines are allowed unless they are mormon, girls are being pulled out of school at the age of 12 and married off at the age of 14 to men at least twice their age. they have no idea of their rights or what life is like outside their communities. and there is no one to turn to! women are property. all authority figures are men and they are all polygamists themselves. the girls who rebel are told that if they don't do what they're told they are damning not only themselves, but their entire families to hell. it's disgusting, and no one does anything a/b it! is this America or not?
but on a happier note, our current book for the book club is Memoires of a Geisha - a really beautiful book to read. and next is East of Eden, which i've never read. so that's what i'm looking forward to.
happy dancing.
happy reading.
vega