History, Coney Island, SmArt

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It's Tuesday and I'm here at the mid-town library. Yesterday Erin and I went out to Coney Island looked at the ocean and talked to some people about the history of the area and the proposed changes. We met a rally nice person named Sal who showed us around. Then we headed up to Columbia to a (Bernard TShumi?)lecture that had to do with an exhibition called matters of sensation. The discussion was odd and difficult to follow, with an air of (bogusness?)je ne sais quoi. Mais afterwards instead of the usual offering of wine and fantastic salsa, there was one cup of yellow liquid and (a muffin?)with a note and smilie face attached that read something like: eat, drink and be healthy:)

leo castelli?
Richard meyers didia faustino felipa ferarria shernberg limits scaffolding and skeletons tweakyness, torsion, tom maynes?, materialism, plastics, the wigital,

gangs, tiling, scales, guilds?, selection processes, manufacturing, "they can afford it", "they work"...were some words that came up.

Earlier today I was at the N-Y (I'm not sure why it's hyphenated.)Historical Society. They have a good drawing/watercolor exhibit. (I recently learned that Teddy Roosevelt is responsible for the colour/color change in american english.)

I have been trying to read some books my former neighbor, Mark left behind and now wants sent to Persia. One of these is A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Mecca by Sir Richard Burton (the 1850's explorer--not the actor). Another is from the (1960's?)Flashman series...apparently based on Burton's books. These are alternately humour/humorously entertaining, educational and horrifically racist.