I didn't see this as a halfhead until I saw the photo later. All the flowers were just coming up in the gardens and in the park.  

Sunny sculpture garden end to a long walk around MoMA. The new building has cut aways that let you peer down into other floors, other paintings. Well done, MoMA 

Looking down from the Empire State Bldg. Lots of smokers up there and I was jostled around, but a long view. We alternated talk about the view with talk about the play we had just walked from, Glass Menagerie, with Jessica Lange and Christian Slater. Still thinking about it. 

Natural History Museum... 

Guggenheim afternoon 

Chrysler Building Mural 

Shirk now, work later... 

BlogBreak

Must remember to change the clocks tonight, or we'll miss the flight in the early AM. We have tix to a cool show, and plans for eating out. I'm going to impress the family at the Museum of Natural History with my acquired knowledge from the Bryson book. They can't wait.

A Great Accomplishment

I finished a book today. Not the Bryson. Still have 40 pages of that one, but I've been reading it so long I think it will always be a part of my life. I'm on bipeds right now.
The book I finished is Treglown's bio of Roald Dahl. Treglown doesn't like Dahl very much and he has his reasons. But as miserable as the old guy was, I had a soft spot for him after reading this:

(In 1964) The New York Times was sufficiently impressed (with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) to ask Dahl for an article on writing for children, and he dashed off a diabtribe claiming that (M)ost juvenile fiction was so bad that after reading it to a child, all you could do was 'apologize...and turn out the light and slink downstairs to wash away the memory with a glass of whisky and water.' (P. 147).

Up in arms...

Be less creative?

Good review in the Rake about two new books by Canadians.

(Blog addendum: The following reviews don't jibe with the Rake reviews, but I read them after posting this. Nation of Rebels sounds like right wingnut stuff...you're an elitist if you don't shop at Walmart. I won't be ordering it. Caniglia didn't mention any of that in her reviews. The Niedzviecki review below mentions that the author talked to real people who have experimented with moving out of the mainstream.)

Nation of Rebels: Why Counter-Culture Became Consumer Culture (Heath and Potter)
and
Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity (Niedzviecki)

Reviewer Julie Caniglia concludes her review with the suggestion that we cut back on self-expression and ratchet up our perceptions of what's going on around us. I'm curious about these books and their connection to what I'm reading in Harper and Kamler about a focus on individuality and self-expression in writer's workshop pedagogy leading writers to ignore the social story lines we live.

The reviewer states that the authors point out that there are more writers now than the reading market can support. I need to keep blogging tho, that's all there is to it. But...I acknowledge that I probably should try to curb my desire for hits and comments. I suppose I won't download that site counter after all.