Prometheus 6

Yes I disappeared yesterday. I told you I'd be at the Bowery Poetry Club to watch devorah major do a reading.

It was my first time at BPC and though due to the company I think I'd have had a good time in the middle of a skunk cabbage patch the club itself is pretty cool. By day it looks like one of those little dark cafes that really wants to spill out onto the sidewalk. I'm lurking around the sidewalk, thinking "Oh, this is going to be a cheesy, cramped thing."

Around 6:30 devorah pulls up in a cab. I give her a hug (I like that part) and we head for the door and find the big white guy (he's bigger than me, and I'm 6'2", 185 lbs...trust me, I'd cap his ass if it came to it) is guarding the door rather than just hanging out. Pleasant guy, though. He was right in the middle of a cigarette/laugh our asses off break...possibly because I was hanging with one of the performers but he's cool. Everyone at BPC is cool…the owner, Bob Holman is exceedingly cool. The young woman behind the coffee shop counter is cool, and exceedingly cute…if I was in the market I just might have sold out.

Speaking of said coffee shop, they do really good sandwiches.

Hanging with devorah in a poetry venue is always interesting because you get to meet the most astounding array of people. You meet poets, social activists, musicians, educators, publishers and above all the people who are impressed with her work. You meet a lot more of that last category of people after the reading. Tonight, in the crossover category of poet, educator and social activist, I met Maha El Said, Professor of English at Cairo University, Fullbright visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a woman that likes laughing more than anyone I've met in the last year. She's in New York to do a thing called "American Pop Culture in Cairo" this Friday at The Graduate Center at CUNY. I may check it out; it would be a good thing to have a better understanding of how our culture is seen from inside another culture. I suspect there are subtle impedance mismatches along the lines of the way each race category in the USofA is seen from inside the others:

Plus I don't have time to be creative. I got people to see, things to do this weekend. I will post more later, maybe tomorrow.