New York, Yup It’s Still Home

I walked around Manhattan during September. It’s true. It happened. I was there. Never made above midtown. I did go the the Hudson Yards a lot though.  Because the Armory Show was being held there.  It also happened to be NY Fashion Week. That meant I all at once found myself as close as 50 …

Lemuralia, It’s Halloween In May!

Happy Halloween, biz-nich-izzles! It’s May. It’s spring! It’s time to celebrate Lemuralia! Wut?Is that a kind of lemur party? Well, no, not quite. Before the Catholic Christians messed around with the dates- as they always seemed to do- the month of May was the time when some ancient Europeans would turn their thoughts to lemures or the dead- the …

Birthday Deathday

June 14th would have been Ko Murobushi‘s birthday. June 18th will be the 5th anniversary of his death. He was one of my butoh teachers.Last year I wrote some words for his birthday, but did not publish them at that time. I reworked them now into something better than before; maybe. The words are not adequate, …