another eye opens

12-1 artwork at the Indonesian consulate

12-3 Andy at dinner with world-class sex educators: Kai Ehrhardt, Dave Allen, and Volker Moritz

12-5 with Liz Robbins (of the NY Times “At the Table” column) at the Hudson Hotel’s new bar/lounge
that looks like something out of TWIN PEAKS

12-8 gamelan rehearsal with dancer Anang Totok Dwiantoro

12-8 after the gamelan concert with Bu Uci and Bu Tatung (and the dancer’s young son)

12-8 10,000 Souls March — North American Protest Against the Targeted Killing of Shia Muslims
in Pakistan

12-9 Bergdorf Follies

12-9 Bergdorf on 57th Street — stilettos and tusks

12-15 my old buddy Dee Michel visiting from Northampton

12-15 ballerina with a lit-up tutu twirling on Seventh Avenue just south of Central Park

12-15 turned out to be a scene staged for passengers on The Ride (bus tour of New York street-life-as-performance)

12-16 store on Broadway — truth in advertising

12-25 Christmas dinner with Alvaro and Stephen — ambitious and delicious (Jamie Oliver recipe)

12-28 back to the Park Avenue Armory for another peek at
Ann Hamilton’s installation “The event of a thread”