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Bowery Poetry Club & Cafe

Looking closely at the signs and advertising, I see:
Fresh juices [peace sign] smoothies
Vox Pop: Books Coffee Democracy
Serving World Poetry
Address is 308 [something]- probably The Bowery. It is an actual street for all you non-NewYorkers. :)
Is a breuklynification of the dutch [the original New Amsterdammers] word Bauer, which means farmer...or something close to that.

This San Franciscan, Mr. Beale, is learning me a thing or two about my own hometown. :)

I think I will check this place out, being currently closer to Manhattan than I was when I grew up in Marine Park, Brooklyn.

Though I love the Beat Poets, I hope that this place is not overrun with Beat resonations. I want a place where i can spaz out like a palsiated freak just from reading a Wallace Stevens poem...where I can express and share with others my own love of verse and learn and experience theirs.

Also, I hope it is devoid of all pretense and vanity. As with the Beat Poets, I love cafes and starbucks and places where I can pose and be pretty, but this is not what I want from a poetry club and cafe. I want self-reflective but non-self-reflective. I want the eve of st. agnes playing out in a psychic hologram draped over the entire building and, perhaps, the dribbling clouds dangling just above it.

Will this place be it?

Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid

Phoenix AOL

Link: AOL seeks growth in shift from mass site to niches - AOL Money & Finance.

I hope AOL finds that thread between unregulated blogosphere thrills and over-regulated Time.com/CNN.com/etc. news/media sites.

Hmmm, there is no general news4geeks blog in the 4geeks empire. Is this a strength? Should everything need to be categorized beyond the overly general 'news' or 'current events' labels?

Not sure yet, but, being an AOL user since 1997, I sort of am rooting for them to endure the web shifts and become, as they say, 'relevant' again.

Good luck, AOL! :)

Oh, The Woes of Being Antiaging Wunderkind I

He is constantly proofed, carded, ID'd, verified, doubted, and validated. Sometimes, upon providing a driver's license, there is incredulity, at other times, there is flattery, on rare occasions, there is cantankerous challenge, unyielding opposition. Paul has grown quite accustomed to this.

Yes, Wunderkind I will be greatly rewarded for his unnatural preservation upon turning 40, but, for now, he must endure the wry looks, the  cryptic passageways, the  gothic  landscapes, the  romantic  atmosphere, the streaming clouds illuminated with spindled moonbeams.

The tiny excursions that cause the background for fun are being documented: the 7-Elevens, A&Ps, the Pathmarks, Starbucks, K-Marts, the Shops at Riverside, Barnes & Noble, Borders, GameStop, Lodi, Hackensack, Jersey City, Teaneck, Rochelle Park, Fair Lawn, Morris Plains, Whippany, Hanover, Secaucus.

A priori psyche bounding by day, flitting by night, throughout the Garden State.

Overlooking Prospect Street

Though unbelievably youthful in appearance for 39.26 years of age, the elf wonders if maybe he appears a bit too effeminate in this photo, but...stet!

And, it is a wonderful Saturday.
A midday nap, a chai tea, a jaunt to a mall, Barnes & Noble, or, perhaps, a Starbucks.

Predictably splendid weekend, for sure.

Remember the Kid Who Unlocked the iPhone?

I hope so.

It was news for a time and he made out with a brand new Nissan 350Z Roadster for the geek-historical iPhone.

Awesome for a local whiz kid from New Jersey.

Check out his iPhone blog. It links to his other blogs too:
On the iPhone...a blog by George Hotz

Coheed & Cambria

They sing about the Devil in Jersey City.
They sound somewhat like Rush, especially the lead singer.
They are geeks of the first magnitude.

What a fitting start for this blog!