cultural commentary from the desk of Don Shewey
Randall, Pete, and Andy -- all members of Team New York Aquatics, which hosted a swim meet on Saturday March 10
The after-party was in the basement lounge at Elmo, whose Andy Warhol wallpaper prompted Andy to remark, "Is that Paula Poundstone?" Someone else guessed it was Marlene Dietrich.
Andy and his diving coach, Croft
Later, a Central Park carriage pretending to be a Burning Man artcar
still life with Don Julio
Romanesco broccoli with pesto and pine nuts
You can see a tiny video excerpt here from an eight-hour klenengan at Wesleyan Feb 4, 2012, featuring the spectacular Solonese vocalist Peni Candra Rini with members of NYC’s Gamelan Kusuma Laras (including Pak Harjito on kendhang)
homemade Vietnamese dinner on upper Fifth Avenue with Sarah (from New Jersey), Nam Tran (from Vietnam), Leng (from Singapore), Hung (brother of Nam), and Hyunkyung (from Korea)
the homoerotic retail landscape of Fifth Avenue in midtown
New Year's day at Andy's with classmates from Cornell and their plus-ones
Keith Hennessy onstage (above and below) at the Abrons Arts Center in improvised performance Almost for the American Realness festival
random profile pic on Scruff
Dinner at Cha-Ya in the Mission with Keith Hennessy, Andrew Ramer, and a guy wearing a Big Bird winter hat
another eye opens 