OK, looks like we're keeping this thread going w/ an average of 1 post per month. (No, there's not THAT much book-worming or binging, let me tell ya.) So the deal is, O dear luscious one, that, let's face it, there's way more cooler shiit goin' on in this pestilential city than in Morn Heights. Although I'm stationed up here, I, like a horny private stuck on his remote base, get the hell out when the first opportunity arises. I'm also a native Brooklynite (grew up in Crown Heights), so no NY 'hood ties me down. &, obviously, I trek back to Bklyn to look up soy familia e amigos every once in a while. But, understand, when you grow up in B-lyn you fantasize your whole life about getting the fluck OUT, baby (Let me tell ya: Hipster B-lyn aint the B-lyn of the 70's & 80's). I need a real good reason to get sucked back in. So go ahead, give me one. (Here was one: I was just at the closing of Halcyon on Smith Street this Sun night. What a tragedy! I was there the first month they opened 4-5 years ago. We hung out while my hombres of "Undercity" fame spun till 1-2AM & then, w/o fanfare, the place just emptied. They say they're gonna open up again in DUMBO but only to sell LPs. Sucks. But then I just went back to the city to "Souk" afterhours in Alphabet City...)

Having said that, THIS heights has begun to grow on me & I've come to appreciate the landmark architecture, the zany personalities hanging around the Hungarian Pastery Shop, Riverside Park now beginning to bud (not exactly Prospect Park...), the thug dealers of 108-109, &, oh, Barnard (not to mention more than 1/2 of Columbia's pop.). But I can't stand the overpricing, the stilted WASPs, the windy tunnel-effect streets, & the neverending construction.

So if its goals & purpose you want (or not), you won't get it from me. This tribe, like many others, is just another excuse for people to reinforce their own aspects of identity & thereby feel like more "full" & complete portrait by seeing their self-created list of group they "belong" to (I may be guilty of this too, but let's at least admit it); but do you really think this is about CONNECTING??? So, Mama L (or is it Sis), that's why no one writes here b/c, beyond just joining up, there's no real reason to communicate. A community of mutes, you can say. But amongst the multitudes of digitalized members (not "people") listed here there are a select few that, behind all the static data, are real flesh & bone. You seem to be one such living, breathing dame. God bless you.

Gotta stop procrastinating & continue my paper, so, till next time we meet, ciao & blossomy spring!

If you respond soon I may even reply in the month of April!