Hey! They found the remains of a 200 year old ship under the World Trade Centre construction site! How weird is that?
But first, here’s a message from Uncle Dale.

Our buddy Norm has launched an online project called shareyourbadart.com. Basically it’s an online gallery of turds, submitted by anyone who has an embarrassingly bad piece of artwork they created. And it can be anything: a film, a painting, a poem, a sculpture made our of chicken wire; it just has to suck. Norm kicked it off with a song he wrote and recorded at the age of 21 (or so he says) entitled “Out of the Day”. According to Norm, it’s “a song I recorded around the tender age of 21 on a four track recorder – a song influenced by the Velvet Underground, vividly detailing the lethargy that came from shooting heroin in the afternoon – this coming from a guy who’s on a steady diet of cheetos and diet coke, not smack.” We actually dug “Out of the Day”. It’s not bad… Actually, it’s terrible, but that’s good!
Listen Here.
I’ve got a ton of shameful “art” that I’ve “crafted” over the “years”… Just have to dig it up.
What else, what else…
BOOK CLUB!
So I’m reading Tobias Wolff’s Old School again because it’s brilliant. That concludes book club.

Right. I’m off to see the Leon Levinstein show at the Met. Leon Levinstein is an unheralded master of street photography, best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island. This exhibition, drawn exclusively from the Metropolitan’s collection, will feature some forty photographs that reflect the artist’s fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein’s graphic virtuosity—seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies—is balanced by his unusual compassion for his offbeat subjects from the demimonde. Really.