What's the Story? Workshop for Writers and Performers

Detroit airport sounds and light show, en route to Ithaca. Architect Gesa Büttner Dias is teaching a grad seminar at Cornell on Land Art and the City, using my project PorciunculaLA.com as a focus. This afternoon, students present their ideas. We’ll bring an exhibition of their final projects to DTLA in the spring, as the public launch of Porciuncula !!

Sunday Santa Monica.

Home away from home in Friedrichshain. Five weeks on the road. We are done touristing. A vodka tonic in the living room, a Donner Kabob from the corner store, and maybe we’ll stream Goodbye Lenin.

ein Fest für Augen und Herz

We have arrived at our Warsaw digs, a houseboat on the Vistula. 96 degrees, and now the skies have opened. Good thing there’s a big bottle of vodka in the freezer, and a restaurant called Tel Aviv right around the corner. All we’ve eaten in Poland is pierogis and hummus. This is where we plot the revolution, comrades.

Krakow’s Main Market Square, at the center of which is a monument to the poet Adamowy Mickiewiczowi Narod. A poet, at the center. A romantic poet at the center.