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Today I slept in...made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...listened to the brian lehrer show...worked on the big watercolor drawing...schlepped over to CCNY to the sustainability club bake sale...went to the library to look at art books...went to another very odd physics lecture...read the NYPress while wolfing down French fries and a peanutbutter bagle...and cam down here to update the blog.

The lecturer was Chi-Chang Kao...apparently with the u.s. dept of energy...I didn't really understand much of what he said...I really have no better idea what a national synchrotron light source is than before the lecture...I wrote down some things to google...brookhaven national lab...photo cathode gun...leem/peem...far ir...thin films...resonance...platzman...tzoar...scattering geometry...moore's law...magnetic media technology...bell (telephone) labs...Neel's point...faraday rotation...magnetic circular rotation dichroism...www.timeline.aps.org

Yesterday Sylvia gave a slide show of previous work. I guess she is having a show in November...meanwhile...the coliseum of vagina has been fired...it had a few big cracks I am trying to fix with glaze.

While I was at the library, I looked at a book about william wegman..w what I didnot know about W.W. is that he went to the university of IL Champaign and he draws like David Shrigly.

Also I checked out a book of italian folk tales by Italo Calvino, Go for Beginners, and three books on Ceramics...Rawson, Norton, and Rhodes....er...Rhodes

Traumwerk, inside books+R.U.S.T.

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Officially now I am on vacation from being unemployed. This, i guess means that I am working, albeit not being paid.

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nine one one seven
discovered tunnel
from Art to Music

Fascists, Tempests, and Tambourines

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Things are picking up here. I've been spending time at City College, here in the Student Technology Support Center which is shaped like an amplatheater(sp?) that looks out on the entrance to the (NAC) North Academic? Center...I took a temp job at the bookstore which is a Follett store. http://www.follett.com/ It reminds me of Long's....But Much smaller (the branch , not the business) and with a more ethnically diverse staff. I like it because I can see what all the professors are assigning.

When I was working at Long's people would speculate about what would happen when Doc Long died. Some bets were on Follett taking over but I guess B+N bid higher. It also has the feel of the old Co-op Bookstore but apparently without the perks...at least for temp workers. It bears no resemplence to Strand. I find my self missing the easy-going-ness (for lack of a better word) of the cashiers at Strandwhile I am being "trained" by a Mussolini(sp?)-like young person who refered to me as "sweety" until she realized that I'm not that sweet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

Sylvia Netzer has been a godsend. I got to spend some time talking to her about time-lines, birthdays, clay, love, painful losses and art while she contructed her organ...organic growth-like forms. Her insight and criticism has me thinking more three diimentionally. She leaves amazing examples around the classroom of better ways of doing things...other possibilities.

I've seen two good plays up here, off-off-off upper Broadway. The Tempest

http://www.harlemonestop.com/event.php?id=2626

and Tambourines to Glory

http://www.harlemrepertorytheatre.org/collegenow.html

Both were way better than RENT (in my humble opinion) and only asked for donations.

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I came to Bryant Park to meet up with Sam, the guy who was watching my place while I was in Ohio and my neighbor and his family who is visiting from England. They are showing Casablanca. It is so very, very crowded here I I gave up looking for them in favor of checking e-mail.

Dave says there is a free show at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater tonight so I may head over there for that soon.

I heart NYPL

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It is so very nice and cool here. I got tired of sweating and came here to my local library to cool off and check my messages.

I'm listening to Le Show from last Sunday...Harry Shearer is talking about Something that happened in Saudi Arabia. I wasn't listening that closely because I was frustrated with trying to figure out why my skype connection isn't working. Now I'm trying to update it.

I had a really nice flight back. There was a beautiful sunset. The Pilots took their time which is good when there is what seems to be a Simpsons channel on the tv. They did some crazy big turns when we got close to the city, so at a couple of points my window was pointed directly at the ground. That was fun.

The apartment was a bit of a mess. The bathroom ceiling fell again...so...now we have to clean the debris that falls from the hole before taking showers.

I had a great time at the family reunion Sunday. (Is one of my mom's cousins on a soap opera???)

Darma, a magical talking horse plays the stock market

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Nostrand, no beach, no bank
sign says, "Rat Race, try harder, escape"
scape nape tape grape gape

this is a poem made up on the way home from the airport last night. It seemed like a brilliant start last night. Now, however, somewhat less brilliant.

Anyway...its good to be back here in Bryant Park people watching and listening to wfmu.

guten tag, mein(e) freund(in)

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Hello...I've been in Ohio for about a week now. I missed my flight and ended up riding with John Mc Cain...tres bizarre! Anyway...I made it and S. M. picked me up and wisked me off to hilliard for the best vegetarian indian food buffet ever...then we went to see Evan Almighty which was diverting...your typical freshman-senator-grows-a-beard-and-builds-an-ark hollywood formula.

since then I've been hanging out with my grandmother's and various relatives.
In my rush to leave, I forgot to pack enough underwear...so I went on a spending spree and got heaps of new bras and undies! Pretty exciting! And I bought some running shoes...I am hoping to lose ten pounds this week.

There is a new Half Price Books in the neighborhood...so I've been jogging over there and getting some books...One on the philosophy of law and one called Camp Concentration...by Thomas Disch

Yesterday my dad and his mom and I drove around looking at places they have lived and I got to see a house on S. warren that my upstairs neighbor's brother renovated. It is a really cute house for not too much $$...a short bus ride from down town. an especially good deal if you like shirtless, pot bellied neighbors:)

So Now I'm here at the awesome westerville library trying to order a fire hydrant adapter(or?)because Michelle says I am to blame for the loss of the garden's last one. Whatever...I just want to make sure I am ordering the right thing.

buena suerte, mon amor.

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Its friday the thirteenth...I spent some time in the garden this morning there hundreds of little caterpillers all over one of the trees.

Krishna wants to make a video for this bright eyes song:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brighteyes+brakeman&search=

Sicko, Damages, Tenants and Neighbors

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Yesterday I put some air in the Huffy tires and rode downtown to the Housing Court to pick up an audio recording of last Friday's hearing. I am starting to think that a class action lawsuit is in order. According to the Pro Se attorney's office in the housing court, the court that a tenant's association in this situation would go to would depend on what is being sought. If, as a group we are asking for damages over $25,000 we would go to the NYS supreme court and make our case there. I believe this company 545 W 146th street, Inc. has been negligent in maintaining the building, has falsified records and lied to state agencies in order to unlawfully increase rents, and has harassed tenants.

I hope that as a tenants association we can get help from the legal aid society in pursuing this case. This evening I think I will sit in the lobby and talk to people about problems in the building and how forming a tenants association could help.

Last night I went to see Sicko with Mitch. I left wishing I could move to France. or england or some civilized country that recognizes basic human needs as the right of every citizen. Throught out the film europeans and canadians are laughing at michael Moore's questions. How many sick days do you get from your job in France? Ha Ha Ha Ha??

I missed the last RGB/Metcouncil get together at Cooper Union last night.

gene, genet*, genome

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Yesterday I went to the library to learn more about Factiva and how to search it for articles.

Today Judge Wendt dismissed the LL petition for Non-payment on the grounds that the DHCR registration was faulty. They had registered a second lease that apparently did not exist under the name of my roommate. Bernardo denied knowledge of the registration or a second lease. By law LLs are required to offer rent regulated tenants a renewal lease. It would be illegal for them to offer the lease to Bernardo and not to me as well.

Now I am back at 545 with my Neighbors, Sam and Jake hanging out till their mom gets home.

I feel pretty good about what happened except now I'm a little worried about going to Ohio for two weeks. I'm sure the LL will try to petition the court for eviction while I am not here to defend myself. I want to talk to tenants in the building about filing a class action suit as a tenant association. Maybe if we go on the offensive, with some help from legal aid we can get everyone's rents rolled back to what the should be and also get the building brought up to code.

I amused myself today during the long wait by trying to guess people's ethnicity. I think I am getting better at it.


On the way home a found out that Don De Lillo has a new book out.

Rent Guidelines Board

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Last night I went to a hearing of the Rent Guidelines Board where tenants and LL's were allowed to speak to ten members of the board. the board is appointed by the mayor and has raised rent stabilized rents by greater and greater percentages in recent years. most of the speakers were tenants calling for (pleading, demanding) a freeze in rent stabilized rents.A few LL's spoke in favor of rent increases.

Council member Jackson asked also for a freeze or failing that and small increase...but preferably a freeze.

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Work has begun again on the bathroom in apt 47. I am hesitantly optimistic that we will soon have a clean, non-leaky, non-moldy place to pee and shower. I and compromising on the tiles. E. Ponce compromised on covering the old marble with concrete and we both agreed that an all porcelain sink is way better than the particle board thing that keeps getting water damaged.

more on 545

SickO NOW!

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Oh My god...I am getting chills hearing someone make so much sense. PLEASE see today's Democracy NOW in which Amy Goodman interviews Michael Moore about his health care film.

Whatever you may think of Moore, he is making so much sense I am almost in tears with happiness that someone is finally saying these things and sadness that so many people have suffered so long needlessly.

I SO miss the good health care I had access to at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. Finally, SOMEONE is doing a good job pointing out how barbaric the American (public? private? civil?) health care system is.

MY RECENT HEALTH CARE HORROR STORY

cell one, cell two

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Hi I'm here with Jake who should be asleep but in stead is bugging me about HTML tables so I'm going to try to put one here to show him what it is.

spider, man	spider, woman
ladybug, green	ladybug, yellow

feathers, healthy	feathers, placed
aluminium, round	aluminium, square

"I like spiderman and we have a cat named Derry." says Jake.

ice cream, bananas	ice cream, oranges
popcicle, grapes	popcicle, spiderman

Affordable Housing Rally

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Wednesday I Met Benn at MNN and went down to this place on tenth Ave where I had seen a sign for this housing rally. Benn had to go to work, so I joined up with the Westside affordable housing advocates and we all went down to 14th street where there were thousands of poeple all supporting the idea that people have a right to affordable housing. I love that here and in San Franscisco communities have taken control of their local governments and enacted laws that benefit average citizens rather than for profit businesses and landowners.

100 things

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I am sure at least one hundred important things have happened since last I posted here.Harmony had a housing court hearing...Samantha and I met with Mary Lighter in Queens...I found out I was NOT selected as an MFA canidate at CCNY this year...SOme big changes have happened in the garden including things sprouting and scaffolding going up against the wall of the old school. Blessing has fallen ill. I visited the Rubin and the MET...Our HTML class was canceled...I added a new table to the experimental hypothical website: http://geocities.com/jenufra/

Harmony quit her job. I saw yet another free film and then another one. I cleaned the apartment (sort of)...Dave and I went to visit Mitch and watch the 400th episode of the Simpsons...I made another coconut/chocolate chip cake and ate it...Socorro and I went to a book talk at bluestockings regarding Sassy Magazine and how it changed the author's life...Socorro moved...I bought some plane tickets...I hung out with Deb and Tammy...old friends from San Antonio at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens...Jake learned how to spell R-E-A-D-Y...They painted some of the walls in the building I live in...I got an e-mail from Sylvia Netzer...I bought some watercolor paints and started sewing again....is that 100?

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A few nights ago, Krishna, Lindon and I went to Cooper Union to see readings from Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's book, Voices of a People's History of the United States. This is where I heard the best reading ever of Howl. It really was impressive.

Yesterday Adi and I went to Housing court. I was surprised that Bernardo showed up and with pictures...all fired up to make a case against 545 W 146th St, Inc. The judge saw the pictures and took our complaints seriously. She seemed very reasonable and fair. We scheduled a trial date for May 29th.

Earlier today I went to the Municipal Archives on Chambers St. to get a picture of the building from the tax files taken in the (30's?). you can see it here.

Now I'm at the library catching up on the blogging and e-mail and listening to a recording of our housing court trial from last November...the one the the LL's attorney dropped.

Peach Bush and Cheney

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Mitch and I went for a walk to the park Saturday and came across a group of people rallying for support for impeachment. We missed the part where they spelled out IMPEACH in giant letters on the grass but were there for this phot0 op. The woman on the right is named Elizabeth. I spoke to her for a while about the organization, worldcan'twait.org.

Later i met up with dave and walked around looking at art fairs and taking pictures of the blooming trees. We ended up seeing Hot Fuzz in times square. It was pretty funny.

now I am in Blessing's HTML class trying to wrap my head around frames.
look

outside the incence store

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I've been back in NYC for about four days now...the rush is just starting to wear off...so far I have met up with Rob, Lindon, Blessing, Adi, Michelle, Krishna, Dave, Harmony, Jake, Samantha, Mary, Curtis, and Socorro...I went to my HTML class, stopped by CCNY, got my hair African braided by a beautiful woman in the library restroom, went to a class at the library about researching Architecture in NYC, saw a free screening of Superbad (which I have to admit was funny), walked by John Hodgeman and co (be still my heart!), ate at a nice thai spot, went to the legal aid office, saw the Barcelona exhibit at the Met and...well...I guess that's about it. This not watching TV thing is working out well.