Ravello

Last month, Martha and I hiked up and down the Amalfi coast to Ravello. I researched a chapter from Two Augusts in a Row in a Row, my novel in progress. After adventures in Ravello, we drove to Fondi to write.

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TWO AUGUSTS IN A ROW IN A ROW is about women’s struggles to have a voice in the world. The protagonist is a drag king and student of magic, who lives in Brooklyn, circa 9/11/01. Other drag kings lip sync but my protagonist, who also works as a translator and transcriber to a dead silent film actress, discovers her singing voice.

The workshop with Lydia Davis was excellent.

I will link to Jeanine Oleson's Smudge Event photographs where I dressed up as George Washington and read tarot cards on the day before the elections to the public at Federal Hall. Here is a link: Federal Hall Smudge event photographs

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I invite you to Thursday evening at NYU's Queer Festival 5-11. I read after 8:30 pm, (for 10 minutes) from Two Augusts in a Row in a Row. NYU's Kimmel Center, Room 914, 60 Washington Square South. The drag king, singer, student of magic protagonist in Two Augusts in a Row in a Row works as a transcriber and translator of a silent film actress. This is set in Brooklyn, 2001.

Next week, I head north for a workshop with Lydia Davis... and to finish writing Two Augusts in a Row in a Row.

Jeanine Oleson with her sage smudge stick for The Greater New York Smudge Cleanse next: Monday, November 3, 1:30 pm Federal Hall, Manhattan. I will be participating, too. http://www.nycsmudge.com/

Future collaborator, Thomas L. Toscano, the director of OperaOggiNY, inspires the cast of L'Oracolo
Performances Nov. 6, 7, 8. Henry McCaddin Hall 288 Berry Street, Brooklyn 8pm $20
Williamsburg Brooklyn,Subway access: L train or J,M,Z trains. www.operaogginy.com

Williamsburg votes:

While I traveled last weekend to North Carolina with Martha, our friend Rafael visited Second Life

We were lost in North Carolina, after leaving the beach for Aberdeen.

Martha and I stopped for dinner and the first debate, with Peter Trachtenberg, author of the fantastic recently published BOOK OF CALAMITIES, in Wilmington on our way to the Intercoastal Waterway..

No more Blood for Oil~ Sign at blood bank in Wilmington

Some books at Martha's mom's house in Aberdeen, North Carolina.

aLluPiNiT Kathleen White and Rafael Sanchez, originally uploaded by shell1000.

Here is Rafael in multi-dimensional life at the alLuPiNiT magazine release party.

My friend Rafael Sanchez appears in a reading of Richard Maxwell's play in Second Life.

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I'm galloping along, writing that second novel... will continue to blog soon.

Dubai: women at an airport cell phone counter, very Fifth Element

Dubai: women at an airport cell phone counter, very Fifth Element, originally uploaded by shell1000.

Dubai: women at an airport cell phone counter, very Fifth Element

Dubai: women at an airport cell phone counter, very Fifth Element, originally uploaded by shell1000.

Elephant in the yard eating bark from a tree

Elephant in the yard eating bark from a tree, originally uploaded by shell1000.

Johannesburg

Botswana and Johannesburg, originally uploaded by shell1000.

Martha, Shelley, Makhosi Thole, and Liesl.

Conversation in Johannesburg

This guy approached me and said, If you wear those beads, it means you can tell the future. See, I am wearing those beads too. Or are they just decoration? I read his palm and he and his friend behind him was very surprised by how much I knew about him f, originally uploaded by shell1000.

This guy approached me and said, "If you wear those beads, it means you can tell the future. See, I am wearing those beads too. Or are they just decoration?"
I read his palm and he and his friend behind him were surprised by how much I knew about him from his lines. After, I asked if he wanted to read my future.
He said, "No, I only wear these beads for decoration!"