May 26, 2008

• The Lower East Side on Sunday, Loisaida Festival

    For Posteritie's sake, should anyone care.

  .
  

  

  ..

  .
  .

  It was a seemingly uneventful day in the Lower East Side, for the Loisaida festival.  I realized I'd been to this festival many years ago and did not realize it was the same festival.

  Basically your average street fair, although smaller,  centered around the still thriving Puerto Rican community there and full of food and fun for the families there.
  .

  It was a bit dull for us,  being jaded New Yorkers, but it was good to get out in the overly warm holiday sun.   Memorial Day Weekend is generally quiet in Manhattan and that it was.
  .
  .
  This is a walk from the center of town and is less populated than some of the other street fairs may have been, full of tourists on Broadway and Madison and the like....
  .
  .

  Two corn dogs later, one was $5 and the second was $4  and none the worse for wear,  we stopped in
  
  

  McSorley's Old Ale House 
  

   the oldest bar in the country,  154 years old for that matter and had 2 lights, which became 4 because when you order a beer you get 2 mugs full, or is it mugfulls, or mugsful? at the same time. 
  

  
  It's a nice place to stop while you are walking from the East Village to the West Village. 

  AA had never been in there.   He decided to accompany me on my Urban Adventure, which turned out to be a hip aching walk through the dullsville 2000's and ended in an early night for me,  rubbing sore joints with Badger Healing Joint Balm,  and they weren't actually that sore,  compared.  I think the weather and the fish oil caps I've been taking help.

  We did go to Washington Square Park to find it all torn up and under construction, in spite of big community protest,   because the BLOOMBERG ADMINISTRATION wants to center the fountain with the famous Arch and make formal gardens hence LESS PUBLIC SPACE in a park that is FAMOUSE FOR ACTIVITISM and HANGINGS all the way back through history.

  The art was all around the park and expensive and my hips said by then,  go home and a beer that is paid for in the refrigerator and list something else on ebay.   AA wanted to go to the village but it was both too early and too late for me, if you know what I mean,  I felt like I had to poop,  and so we went home,  he napped only to go back out during the night while I did some healing meditation and had a party with afore mentioned natural and smell good healing balm, albeit sticky and gooey.

  I listened to my new cd Awakened Mind System, the natural internal healing part, and fell fast asleep by 10 PM.  

  My dinner consisted of mixed nuts, wasabi peas with no MSG of course, and half a beer, the other half I spilled on the floor by candle light.

  I did not make a nice relaxing television program,  had intended on a vintage episode of Alfred Hitchcock Hour but didn't last that long.

  I just killed the biggest mosquito.

  Today is chores and boredom.

  How did u spend ur holidy weekend?

  • 8:27 am
  • 4 Comments