A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
They’ve been in my neighborhood a few times, which is fun. It’s a new tv show about an NYPD squad from 1967. Here are some of the actors from the shoot.
That is the director (actor Ed Burns) in the beret. I wish I had gotten a better shot of the actress on the left. Loved her hair and outfit. A short movie follows below.
You know who I haven’t photographed in a while? Dog walkers. What is better than a dog walker, from the dog’s point of view? A dog walker with treats. That is why all these dogs are at attention. Could these dogs be cuter? (Hint: no.)
This may seem like a morbid way to begin this post, but I will always remember what Stephen Policoff wrote when our mutual friend, Aly Sujo, died. It was the most moving of all that I’d read about Aly and I was grateful for his words. He captured Aly so perfectly, and the pain of losing him. Policoff is a writer, and is the Master Teacher of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU, so it wasn’t a surprise of course, but still.
From his email: “Come Away is a companion piece to my first novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, and like that novel is a dark domestic comedy laced with a mild buzz of the supernatural.” Sounds perfect for me! Policoff’s first novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones 1st Novel Prize.
If you live in New York he’ll be at The Golden Notebook, in Woodstock NY, today at 4:40. On Monday November 17th, he’ll be at First Bite, at Contrada on E. 4th Street at 7:00 PM. I’ll probably go to his reading on November 20 at the NYU Bookstore on Broadway (6-7:30).
My idea of a great afternoon, spending it going through old records. Yesterday I spent a wonderful few hours at the archives of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Thank you Wayne Kempton! The archives are HUGE and meticulously stored and maintained, and when one thing I needed wasn’t there, Wayne emailed me later with it.
I don’t want to say what I was looking for because hopefully I’ll have a happy announcement to make soon-ish. I’ll get to spend tons of time here and at the Municipal Archives and the New York Public Library and many other archives. Places of enchantment for me, basically.
I’m not going to be able to watch the news for a while. I’m even afraid to look at the Times. The only way to do it will be to immediately scroll down past the headlines to the science section, and the arts, books, movies and tv, my people. And read Hobsbawm, following a suggestion of someone whose suggestions and reasoning has always been sound. This was in response to my question about people voting for people who do not act in their best interests.
When I was working the polls on Tuesday I wasn’t hungry when I had to take my assigned “dinner break” so I just walked around, taking pictures. This is the African Burial Ground.
