Star Wars at the Brooklyn Museum

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Met a bunch of folks from the Columbia U. gaming-SF-anime social constellation (I know them mostly from the gaming club, but also because Jessica worked at Crossover/UnGames as an intern for a while) at the Brooklyn Museum for the Star Wars exhibit. While the costumes were nice to look at, it was the conceptual drawings that got the old artmaker spirit stirring, that gave me juice (as Jeff Nicholson described it in the utterly brilliant Through the Habitrails).

We hung out for part of the Jill Sobule concert, and that’s where I met the ever-charming aiglet (for the second time), whose leaving to meet a friend in Manhattan was, I suspect, the catalyst for Ms Sobule’s playing, mere minutes later, the very song that Aiglet had been waiting for, the one about the French revolution.

The rest of us didn’t stay much longer; some of the Columbians had to get back to the distant hinterlands of Queens. I led the group to 7th Avenue for dinner, showing off the neighborhood on the way, and nature accommodated me with one of the most brilliant and beautiful sunsets it’s ever been my priveledge to witness, framing the Grand Army Plaza arch in silhouette.

Oh, and while waiting for Jill Sobule, I took a few moments to sketch one of the Zeus heads sticking out of the museum wall: