1. Abe Rosenthal has a book on the murder of Kitty Genovese, three letters to the editor, regarding something published March 10, 2014;

2. Alynda Lee Segarra, 27, Hurray for the Riff Raff, of New Orleans, part of the American Songbook at Lincoln Center, pictured with interesting tattoos on her extended right arm;

3. Africa Now music series at Apollo Theatre, produced by World Music Institute;

4. Tom Harrell’s Trip, a quartet, including Adam Cruz on kit, at Village Vanguard;

5. South African Hugh Masekela at Lincoln’s Rose Theatre — I had forgotten that he was married to Makeba.

6. At the Brooklyn Museum, “Witness: the art and Civil Rights of the Sixties”;

7. “The Library” by Scott Z. Burns and Steven Soderbergh, whose father was an Education professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge;

8. King Lear: includes a quote;

9. Rocky the Broadway adaptation or musical;

(that there were 23 things that caught my eye and I literally noted the other day reminded me of the defunct indie band from the Chapel Hill scene, Small or Small 23, that featured Chuck Garrison, who was the original drummer for Superchunk, i.e. before the very funny Jon Wurster (or maybe even before Jon was funny); the mis-addressed mail to him, to “Chunk”, is the genesis of Chunk as  a band name, before they got super; I didn’t recall knowing that Eric Bachman played with them before forming AOL; on Alias Records, not Merge — I remember reading a fanzine or indie article in which Chuck said that one of their fans, at least for a night, was a guy who came out to see them out of curiosity, because he had decided to organize his life around the number 23).

(which actually reminds me that last night I watched only a minute or so of Russell Wilson, on Seth Myers recently, and all I heard was him saying “Be in the moment” and I froze the frame and ripped this shot, titled “Be in the moment” — no, it says “Wilson” but when I forwarded it to email/Yahoo I noted “Be in the moment” and also I noticed that it occurs, as you can clearly see, at 42 minutes of the 60 or 61 minute show; which reminds both of Douglas Adams and Jackie Robinson, and that watching the Giants-Dodgers epic 12-inning 3-2 game, I noted –how could you miss? — that all the players for both teams wore 42; I took as weird in that if you are retiring a jersey why do you reclaim it that way?)

Russell Wilson on Seth Myers, at minute 42, saying “Be in the moment” if you excuse the mixing of television and print

10. “Captain America” the movie features Robert Redford as “smooth bureaucratic fascist;”

11. “Finding Vivian Maier” about a trove of photographs unearthed;

12. “The Unknown Known” which for a small fee, our cable company will let us see quite conveniently in our tv room, about Errol Morris and Donald Rumsfeld;

he passed for an intellectual

whose ideas,

because ideologically useful,

went unexamined

until

in practice

they proved

disastrous (R.B. which means Rich Brody)

this is all from the 4/7/14 New Yorker

as of 4/15/14

(Lion on cover

eating a salad

— as I am in the instant case, at Coupa, with tuna, capers, egg, some magic French dust

by Peter De Seve

A New Leaf

— which is ironic in that in this electronic gadget age leafs are devoured by plasma or something even newer; they have taken leave, literally

and turning to the verso

of this handy Mead

COLLEGE RULED

1 SUBJECT

Spiral NOTEBOOK

$5.15 (about half what I paid for this nicoise)

Dayton, Ohio 45429 ,

which factors nicely

Trisha Brown is retiring (that’s lucky 13 if we are still counting)

14. J. Toobin on ACA Affordable Care Act, I try to avoid the sillier name for it;

15. Roseland Ballroom closing — I noted that Lady Gaga was actually on two different late night shows, both repeats; and a little drawing in The New Yorker; and I froze the frame while watching something else, across the street, to point out that the Roseland marquee with her name was visible; and that the Times had a timeline of the venue the other day;

16. “Old School: The d.j. Peter Rosenberg…” from Chevy Chase, Md. (from where one of my college roommates did hail, on Primrose, he they — did they know this Rosenberg, was he an “I Street Boy”?) by Andrew Marantz, like the brand of tv;

17. ‘Final Forms” about death certificates, including a brief Bernard Malamud aphorism, “broke what breaks” that is to say cause of death;

18. long memoir on writing by John McPhee which I would make time to try to eat in one sitting, before or after meditating with great minds like Kosinski, Shields, Yardley, Fagin, Foster Wallace and Vonnegut; “Elicitation: who is there to help you but the person who is answering your questions” I think that’s a question, although I deleted the punctuation symbol, #@&^!

19. Jonathan Lethem in Berlin, who I first caught sniff of at The Gathering Cafe in Carroll Gardens, in winter 2001, wow that’s 13 years ago, when we were young; He’s working on a novel, “Pending Vegan”, at Sea World, on or off antidepressant Celexa, withdrawal; “Irving Renker” who “crawled out of his archetype like a lobster from his shell”;

20. an ode to “All in the Family” which survived a rough Cockney childhood “Till Death Do Us Part” — ook. I mean, in the U.K, although they might have said British.

on the home stretch, flipping TTM (the trusty Mead) to top of third page, just three more little alters, to some day at which to worship; then I draw a line across the page and continue, ignoring everything I learned about “rules” in “college”: Gu Wenda at Cantor Thurs 5/1 7 p.m. Aleta Hayes + Lava Thomas “Being Scene” Fall, 2013 cf Carrie Mae Weems; then another little line, almost at 45 degree angle, like Isoceles, NYT “rent” NYT Pulitzer, which is actually illegible, except I cheated and turned the page to reveal and remind to make a known known my notes on Fagin; back to, if anyone dear 7 billion hypothetical readers, is actually out there(from the Cantor newsletter, APMAJU2014:

21. George Packer, Home First Fires: How Soldiers Write Their Wars; “If I Die in a Combat Zone” Tim O’Brien, 1973, a Eugene McCarthyite Minnesotan;

22. David Denby on “Noah”: “craziest big movie in years”.

23. on C3, which is the “third cover” i.e. inside the back cover, there is an advertisement for a financial services company with headline

IRS or IRA?

and I read it as

IRS or IRAQ

outro and this took me 66 minutes plus or minus 23 bites of my salad 1 minute on still pretty stupid cell phone with my sweety Terry, plus “one hour” Tuesday:

edita: and this is ruining the purity of a post on 23 links to The New Yorker but is similar in form and in the way that it maps my mind, I grabbed from Palo Alto’s College Terrace library, because it was an arm’s length from Fagin, “This Indian Country” by Frederick E. Hoxie, but only got as far as glossing “pueblo indians” to learn that on page 270 before the New Deal there was an attempt to “deprive” the Pueblo people of their New Mexico land, and that David Starr Jordan, then President of Stanford, was at the meeting where that idea was either advanced or retreated. Hmm. (as Jody Naranjo, Santa Clara would say: I tend to think of Santa Fe area artists as merely artists and not activists or survivors of a type of purge

)

edita, five days later: library tells me they want the magazines back, mostly unread. I actually had but did not read the April 14 edition, Obama spoon-feeding something, and flashed to an article by Sasha Frere-Jones about Erika M. Anderson, from South Dakota, pka EMA, article entitled “Improv Everywhere: EMA flirts with chaos.