We saw Reno tonight at the Zipper Theater on West 37th. Cool space, fabulous show. It’s a bit more “produced” than when I saw her at La Mama. I love her, and highly recommend seeing it. She hates Telecharge as much as the rest of us, so you can go buy tickets at the box office instead.

Afterward we went to Market Cafe. Bargain! $12 entrees, great wine list, and a waitress that reminded me of Amy Sedaris. I ordered a bottle of Morgon (pronouncing it the French way), and she said – oh, you mean Morgon, like Morgon David.

The dreaded annual co-op meeting was last night. I was happy to see other people ask about the explosion of dogs in the last year. We’re one of the only buildings in the area that allows dogs, so many of the people moving in (generally affluent Chelsea fags) have dogs, sometimes two.

I work at home, so I get to hear all of the little darlings be miserable and bark for, oh, lets say, 6 hours a day. This includes Saturdays while people are at brunch of course.

At the meeting I heard the most pathological “dog” statement of my life. One of the people admitted that he was one of the people with two dogs. He said he gets anonymous complaints under the door, and he can’t respond to them. He followed this by saying he couldn’t really do anything about his dogs barking, and if the neighbors found them annoying, imagine how bad it was to live with his dogs! This person needs a therapist, not pets. Who gets pets to brag about how much trouble they are?

There’s a nice essay in Salon on the new Tom Waits CDs I just bought – Alice and Blood Money.

Alice is from a musical theatre work created by Robert Wilson and my friend, the brilliant Paul Schmidt — his Chekhov translations are highly recommended.

Blood Money is based on Buechner’s Woyzeck.

The lovely and talented Jesse has a photo of a shop in London called “Fags and Fings”.

Yessiree, I’ve added myself to the nyc bloggers list. Others in the ’hood:

The Axum Obelisk, brought from Ethiopia to Rome by Mussolini’s soldiers, was damaged by lightning yesterday. The CNN story has a picture. There’s more on the history of the obelisk here.

My friend Charles Goldman (no link — I’m not done working on his web site) has a nice review in the SF Chronicle of his show in Berkeley. Check out the images.

I’ve seen the Distance Paintings in person. They’re beautiful.

… looking for “new talent”. The Art Newspaper has a pretty good article on the search for hot/new/young artists. It quotes one of my favorite “art world” people — Zach Feuer from LFL Gallery. I didn’t know he was only 23!