avram | Meeting Immlass

bugsybanana and I just met and spent a wonderful day with

immlass and

mcroft, who turn out to live about two blocks from

ladymondegreen,

akawil, and I, and that’s more LJ user links in one sentence than anyone needs.

We spent the afternoon at 111 First Street, the heart of Jersey City’s arts community, checking out artists’ open studios. Sadly, there weren’t nearly as many artists participating as there were for the big Open Studios day back in October, but at least we got to check out Ron English’s fantastic work.

We sat in on a performance of Irish music, and I sketched some of the performers. For the second time in two days one of my subjects spotted me drawing (I must be losing my touch) and asked for a look. He (I think it was Tony Horswill) asked me to send him scans.

[ musicians ]

We went back to their place and chatted for a bit about computers and gaming and books and various other topics, then went to Helen’s Pizza for dinner (and I realized — I now have local friends who don’t keep kosher, who I can lure up to Grimaldi’s Pizza in Hoboken!), and the local homemade ice cream place for dessert.

I forgot how we wound up on the topic of the War On Some Terrorism as a police action being an NYC-style police action, with Saddam Hussein as Amadou Diallo with a Wallet of Mass Destruction. But we did.