I haven't even really been here - got a glimpse of a couple of Peso's and see that one W Robb won the 600 - I hope it gets to him before I do (aug 10) maybe he will let me take a few shots with it.
So here is the news of the day - I head out on Sunday with a 2 month greyhound bus pass to visit and impose upon friends and family all across the USA and Canada - including an overnight chez Paul Stenquist next week and 2 nights chez Robb. Hope to connect with Bay Area folk at some point. I will have only 2 nights alone on the road where i will have to shell out for a motel - HOpe, BC and Weed, CA - Weed, Ca just being a kind of pleasant mid-point between Portland and Reno, where I need to be by the 19th of August for the National Scrabble Championship - I'll be staying there for about 8 to 10 days with friends that live in Sparks. I'll be off list for those two months but will probably send a story or two in via list folk I'll be meeting up with along the way. News of the day, though, is that in mid August the letters of poet JAmes Wright will be published by Farrar, straus & Giroux and 2 of those letters are to me. For those of you not inclined to know American poets, Jim won the PUlitzer back in 72 and his son Franz won it last year. Jim died in 1980 - he was a good friend and his widow remains so. I sold my entire correspondance with him (well, I kept 4 postcards and a few notes) to finance this trip. On the Scrabble scene, WORD WARS got nominated for a EMMY! This is under the documentary section, of course. And on the here I am in the theatre again, kind of, on of the Scrabblers who is also a playright, is having those of us with some background in theatre do a reading of his play in Reno one night so he can listen to it. Because it is a reading I get to play a 30 year old British sculptor and my lover is being read by WORD WARS director/producer ERic Chaikin - who is a little more age appropriate for his role. Should be fun! ON the photo scene, a museum curator looked at my book at the flea market a couple of weeks ago and asked me to contact her in the fall.... more than that I don't want to say - could be nothing could be great. I tried to see the LEE FRIEDLANDER show at the met but couldnt hack the crowds so stood in the bookstore and looked at all the stuff in the book -- GREAT stuff - I love him... So now I'm off to Scrabble club - will stay on list and hopefully actually get to read a bit of it before I leave on Sunday afternoon and get off list, but I'm still buried under last minute chores. Oh yeah, and in Sept I'll be in Chicago at my 50th high school reunion.... if any of you lot live in Chicago proper and could put me up for 2 nights I would be very grateful... my friend who I am staying with for all but those 2 nights lives near Waukegan. annsan the travelin' fool
