NYC & ASAP

I went to New York in October for a seminar in ASAP, the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. I did write about improv, college, stripping & Marx? See the seminar description below.

I took almost no pictures of people, even though it was so sustaining to reconnect with friends I only see at conferences.

I walked the Highline down the waterfront and then across the Brooklyn Bridge. I saw the extraordinarily moving Alvin Ailey exhibit. I let my friend in Brooklyn spoil me, while I fell in love with his cat. We went to a play and a Knicks game and a comedy show, and nothing has ever been more glorious.

And I got to put in some quality time with my uncle, Paul Chihara, and his lovely wife Carol, who teased me about Marxist humor and told me stories about the past.

My major project keeps getting closer, asymptotically, and then I dive back into some other piece of research.

And then, of course, November happened. So take this post as a quick reminder, as we batten the hatches and set our intentions, that there is so much in this world worth fighting for.