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06/10/2004 Entry: "nation mourns Ron?"

I found out yesterday that the school might be closed on Friday because of a national day of mourning for Ronald reagan. While I wouldn't mind the day off, I have to wonder what the f... is going-on in the world. Have we all got Alzheimer's. I remember the bad shit that man had done because he mostly did it in Central America. Maybe those hundreds of thousands of mourners are all from the midwest and couldn't care less about the rest of the world. They are mourning their cowboy. Maybe those people just want to make sure he is really dead. I don't care either way. I kept thinking he died years ago and it somehow got passed over in the news. Nobody ever talked about him, nobody ever went to his house. Maybe he died last year and they were saving his death until it was closer to the election. It is a closed casket.

The only good thing that may come out of this is stem cell research. Nancy was at a pro stem cell research rally a few weeks ago talking about how stem cell research could have saved Ronald Reagan from Alzheimer's, and cured Parkinson's. I hope she uses this as a platform to promote stem cell research. The conservatives would never go against her now.

In a different story: I am out of my jet-lag. I woke up at my regular time and should be ok now. I still have caffeine headaches from all the coffee I drank in Paris. We were drinking coffee everymoring to be able to go sightseeing all day. They have two kinds of coffee in Paris espresso and espresso with milk. I had it with milk. I have never really liked strong coffee.

Today is the NYFA reading at AAWW. It should be cool and hope that some of you can make it.
I'll put the blurb again:

The New York Foundation for the Arts and The Workshop present a full night of photographers, sculptors, poets and prose writers, all winners of 2003 individual artist grants. An hour-long curated event featuring Bruce Busby, Priya R. Chandrasekaran, Tina Chang, Che Chen, Quang Bao, Edward Garcia and Louis Reyes Rivera, plus special guests from The New York Foundation for the Arts.

Reception with prosecco and summer rolls follows

$5 suggested donation
@ the Workshop


Todays song of the day is "Zora" by Olu Dara from the album In the world from Natchez to New York