Sunday, May 12, 2013

A Different Kind of Trailer Park

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Since today was the most perfect day in the history of the world ever, the Duchess and I took a major stroll around Prospect Park and Grand Army Plaza. On the way home, this classic, early-twentieth century lookin' trailer caught my eye, both because it was such a beautiful specimen and because one doesn't often see trailers parked out on the streets of Brooklyn. When we took a close look, we learned the score --
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It was an artwork. A park inside a trailer, as further inspection bore out --
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The sign in the back says Ms. Holleman's work is from 2006 and seemed to bear the insignia of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation:
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It was almost like a children's story. It felt like if you kept going you'd find yourself in a rainforest, with Brooklyn gone entirely. But who wants that? Brooklyn's the place where you find crazy art works parked in the middle of the street!

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Where Were You Last Night?

photo Clay Takes a Better Picture Than I Do, But the Wild Thing in the Background Beats Us Both. Photo by the Unerring Eye of Raship.[/caption]
Where were you last night? I only ask because I saw what appeared to be everybody else!
First we went to Clay McCleod Chapman's book launch at Books of Wonder for his excellent-looking new kid's opus, The Tribe: Homeroom Headhunters, first part of a new trilogy:
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While there, we saw Hanna Cheek and Kevin Townley stars of the web series Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary; the gang from Nosedive Productions, namely James Comtois, Pete Boisvert and Stephanie Cox-Williams (who reports she's in the midst of production on an exciting new movie); and Daryl Lathon, cast member of our own Willy Nilly and creator of the Web series Clean Kill.
But then it was Melissa Roth's birthday! So we ran and joined her at a Lower East Side  hockey bar, where we saw Roger Nasser and Gyda Arber, both of whom have shows in the upcoming Soundscape Festival at the Brick Theater; also Alexis Sottile (fresh from the Staten Island edition of I'm Tawkin' Here), Mel Delancey (fresh from Mass), and several others, one of whom turned out to be an escape artist. Roth reported she's acting and doing special effects in a new horror movie as well. We played a very scary game with wooden sticks and then it was time to move on.
...Then, who did we see on Avenue A but Killy Dwyer and Carla Rhodes, cutting up on the sidewalk outside Sidewalks (say that three times fast), where they were attending the Waggytail Rescue Spring Benefit. Killy, who performs practically every day of her life, for once was there just to support. Carla, however, fresh from a trip to Scotland was in full ham mode, and she not only performed, but, I'm told, walked away with a dog.
The Duchess and I were hot and tired though so we continued home, where, after some necessary preliminaries, I proceeded to consort with Messers. Wynken, Blynken and Nod.

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