Diary

(Apologies for the hiatus.)

Adulthood entailed going from internet flame wars over videogames and films to flame wars over art deco vs. brutalist architecture (why pit two queens against each other?).

“Everyone knows it dont be like it is, but what my book presupposes is, what if it do?”

My most American personality traits?: fascination with Australia, saying “Bet”…

Chugging water to keep the blood viscous.

Early evening in my hometown, a famous band was scheduled to play in the park, and I headed down the steps that go down the steep hillside; they were cut unevenly, and there were handlebars on both sides and above me, suddenly there were others scrambling down these horrible stairs, in multiple branching paths, and it had become impossible to turn around and go back.

To the left, brownstones under the shade of replenished trees; and to the right, more brownstones and trees. It was a beautiful windy day in Bed-Stuy.

Furniture entry: for a while the study room felt like it was missing a cozy chair, like an armchair. I really only have a couple of arm chairs; everything else, the odd wooden chair or stool, serves as another platform for books. But last Wednesday, a neighbor left a rocking chair and footrest on the curb. After putting the groceries away I went back out, inverted the footrest onto the rocking chair, and carried it inside, while a neighbor from the first floor watched. The rocking chair pinched me on my knuckles a couple of times; I’d tried to carry it up the stairs from the bottom. Now it sits in the corner.

The short books I’ve read in my rocking chair: Curt Corrinth’s POTSDAMER PLATZ and Bohumil Habral’s TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE.

Entry on the new experience of subtropical NYC: every day alternates between the finest, sunniest weather you could ever ask for, and thunderstorms that blacken the windows in the middle of the day.

Feeling mad about how phoned in #62 was.

Weekend movies: The new Nuri Bilge Ceylan, ABOUT DRY GRASSES, and the new R. Hamaguchi, EVIL DOES NOT EXIST. Both had very good dialog scenes, in NBC’s case, often with a light source in the middle of the distant frames.