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08-28-09 Case File: ART & COPY ...
Art & Copy ... A Film by Doug Pray.
However incredibly interesting this film looks, it would seem I'll have to wait for the DVD to come out as the screenings seem extremely limited. 
08-27-09 Case File: GOOD MORNING GASLAMP...
8:00 am Breakfast meeting at Lees.
08-26-09 Case File: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN...
Don't flatter yourself ...
08-24-09 Case File: MOMS HOUSE ... SUGAR HILL ... HARLEM ...
In 1996 ... Mom bought a house uptown and I got a job out here in San Diego.
I had 3 months to get her moved uptown from Brooklyn and then move to SD. 12 years later the house is still a work in progress, but beautiful as always.  Mom in the kitchen. At the bottom left of the Stained Glass there is an Armadillo Lamp. This lamp had been my nightlight/bedside reading lamp from Age 7 to 26.      Owerka Fan Repair.    Cicada Molt  He shed his skin to tell us Sumer is over.  Owerka Lawn Service.   Mom, Nzeida, Mahdi and Maiqueen.  My Mother made this Gryphon mask for me in 1976. (Griffon/Gryphon/Griphon?) I wanted to be the Gryphon from Alice in Wonderland for halloween. (Was VERY specific about wanting to be as close to the Arthur Rackham Illustration as possible.) Thanks Mom!  Day by Day...  My man Beasly (Rest In Peace) and I used to make these back in the Black Medallion Days. Circa 1989. Yeah ... Had the Gumby Cut too.  Portrait of Mom by family friend Mernet Larsen. 
08-23-09 Case File: A DAY IN BROOKLYN...
Mom and I spent yesterday in our old neighborhood exploring, seeing how things had changed (Or not) and visiting old friends.
My mother and I moved into this house in 1977. She had gotten a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She left her teaching gig at UMASS Amherst and we packed up and drove to Bergen street. Fun Fact about this house: Rodney Smith, Brunno Musso, Jeremy Henderson, Eli Gessner, myself and a host of others cut the first 40-50 SHUT SKATEBOARDS on the roof of 236 Bergen back in 1986 . Lost my virginity to Anya Irons in the house.    As a Latch Key Kid, one of my household responsibilities was to do the laundry. I'm amazed and pleased to see that the place I learned to do laundry is still there after 32 years.  SOMETHING NEW. Or maybe not. Was super excited to stumble across THE BROOKLYN CIRCUS. This storefront had been a hair salon and later, a cab company during my youth. Great to see it in it's present state. Mom and I went in and saw some great product, equally great staff, KILLER Custom Harley, rad book selection. When I got home did some online research on the BK Circus. If you are in the neighborhood, make sure to stop in.  PS. 261   I learned to play Kickball, Strikebox, Handball, Skellies, Steal the Bacon and a host of other games in this schoolyard.  Glad to see Community Bookstore is till there. We did not get to go by N'Kiru bookstore unfortunately. (Next time)  Lived here from 1988 until 1996.  Clarence and Melanie at Premium Goods. Clarence and I have known each other since Summer Camp at USDAN Center for the Creative and Performing Arts back in 80. (Maybe even 79.) Moms and I stopped in to check fam. Melanie told Mom and I, they were going heading to the hospital after we left. Well ... Several hours later ... Mr. Mosi Alexander Nathan was born ! YEAH KIIID!  GO BROOKLYN! 
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