Peter Schjeldahl is dying.

You have probably never heard of him unless you read The New Yorker or live in that weird place known as the art world. He is the art critic for The New Yorker, and widely considered to be the best art critic of our time. I have known of him for 30 years, and have met him a handful of times. He is not the chummy sort ( Read more... )

 Dusting off the old blog to wish all those that ovserve a shana tova, a good new year as the Jewish year 5779 rolls over into 5780.  May the old year and its curses end.  May the new year and its blessings arrive.

Hope everyone out there is hanging in,  I am pretty much the same as I have been for a while, just not using Dreamwidth much (who is

And now you can listen to them at home, using any device, and no longer need to get any sort of rented MP3 player.

Tours.TheJewishMuseum.org

Enjoy. 

 Greetings fans of filk!  There will be a housefilk on Sunday, June 30 at the home of Josh Kroenengold and Lisa Padol,  39-20 52nd Street, Apt GD in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens, NYC.

Please RSVP to me at this blog or to Josh at mneme@labcats.org, and spread the word to any other filkers or potential filkers.

If you have concerns about ( Read more... )

The show opens April 12. And tickets are on sale today.

https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/leonard-cohen-a-crack-in-everythinghttps

 If all goes according to plan, we will be at HELIOsphere, the new-ish NYC-area con that is trying to be the replacement for Lunacon, the first weekend in April.  The guest filker will be the one and only Tom Smith, among other notables attending ( Read more... )

So as some of you know, I have a Facebook account that I use very sparingly, and don't plan to start using it more.  And a Google Plus account that was never of much use and is about to go away.  So I wonder what people use that isn't FB and isn't DW.  i do have an Instagram account for work purposes, and not averse to adding anyone who one to my ( Read more... )

Greetings and felicitations fannish types and Bostonians.  Batya and I will be attending Boskone next month.  As I know many of you attend Arisia instead, I figured it would be a good idea to give you a head's up that we will at the other con.  If you like to meet up with us, regardless of whether you are attending the con, please give up a shout ( Read more... )

Let's welcome the new year with this classic poem no longer under copyright.

Whose woods these are I think I know.   
His house is in the village though;   
He will not see me stopping here   
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer   
To stop without a farmhouse near   
Between the woods and frozen lake   
The ( Read more... )

Greetings.  If you haven't left Dreamwidth and are among my regular readers, glad to see you.  If you left DW and are returning as the Tumblexodus begins, welcome back.  As you may have noticed, I have been posting a lot less.  Some of that is because DW has been quiet overall.  But of late, it's because I broke my scapula.  Here's my story ( Read more... )