Eileen and I agreed that we would still our “date day” even while visiting my brother and sister-in-law. That will end up taking a big chunk of today. I’m blogging now so I can go sit on the porch and begin my day of reading.

I did end up purchasing the books I mentioned yesterday. I started Nice Racism last night. It looks like it’s going to be as good as it looks to me.

We had a lovely dinner last night with the Ann Arbor branch of the fam sans Tony, Ben’s husband. He has switched jobs and is working remotely for a New York company and they had scheduled a zoom meeting right at the time we got together for dinner.

I sat next to Jeremy Bastian.

I always enjoy chatting with him. He is an extremely talented artist and has been working on a book about the Pirate Girl as long as I have known him.

I was delighted to find out that he likes Jean-Michele Basquiat.

I am passionate about Basquiat. I haven’t really bet anyone who likes him as much as I do since learning about him from Jennifer VanHolstein who knew him. She is married to Martin Pasi and that’s when I met her. Since then Basquiat has been on my radar.

Well this is short and sweet so I can get a bit of alone time.

Vacation is going well.

Last night we drove to the little town of Chelsea nearby, went to the bookstore, then to a charming restaurant. Tonight we are planning a similar trip to a different restaurant. This evening some if not all of Mark and Leigh’s kids and spouses will be able to meet us.

The bookstore last night was Serendipity Books. The owner is in Mark’s writing group. It’s a mix of used and new.

The restaurant was The Grateful Crow.

Tonight’s Bookstore is Nicola’s, it’s all new books

The restaurant is a vegetarian one, Seva’s.

This restaurant used to be right in Ann Arbor, but moved to the mall. It’s in the same mall as Nicola’s.

I got up good and early this morning and got some reading in. Also I have been playing Leigh’s wonderful piano.

My son-in-law Jeremy appears in the above video as the expert he is. He is in the lower right hand corner.

What’s the matter with cultural politics audio and printed article from Dec 2020

I listened to some of this this morning. Not dated from what I heard.