Sorry for the extended break, readers. I have been awash in a sea of anti-education waves here in the Garden State, one with a very strong undertow. Nonetheless, I have now washed up on the shore somewhere between the old
Casino building in Asbury and the Kohr's stand on the
Casino Pier in Seaside. I'm ready to resume the writes of summer.
Lots going on with great Jersey writers and artists from the complete domination of the
New Yorker magazine to Jersey guys Doug and Mike Starn's
"Big Bambu" exhibit on the top of MOMA. As much as I have avoided any contact with the
Jersey Shore reprobates, even I experienced a "sighting" on the boards of two long-haired babes from the cast. (Just lucky, I guess!)
I've been enjoying
Mark Diionno's color pieces on Jersey towns and people, but I feel that he's better at writing insight articles for the front page. (just sayin')
Joe Weil has been growing a "garden of verses" near the SUNY Binghampton campus. We are all waiting for the
Dodge Festival in Newark this October, too.
A new spin? Let's roll with
Jerseylicious and
Jersey Housewives and all the other nonsense. It's all silly and insubstantial. Two weeks ago I had to laugh at the line near the
Cake Boss bakery in Hoboken. (I was told by a local that it's part of the Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty loop for NJ tourists.) Let's have some fun with all this stuff. For those of us that are not Italian-American and from New Jersey, let's hold our own, too. Fist-pump for us, my Irish peeps!
Read some stuff. Have some fun. Don't stop writing.
Maureen
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