The Path of the Bookseller

Since (and to a significant extent, because of) my last post, things seem to be coming together for a return to San Francisco.

Video of my 1993 performance piece, Minyan (After Chagall), is now online. It’s a 26 minute dance/theater work, mostly set to a field recording that I made at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Enjoy!

The new device caught my eye at the checkout line. The supermarket in New Jersey had instituted a system for bagging groceries, rather like a lazy susan. Each of the three sides held bags on two pairs of hooks. Cashiers could put items into those two bags, then rotate the device and continue with the [...]

Steven Hart has inspired me to jump on the meme known as 15 Books That Will Always Stick With Me. Here’s my fifteen, in the order that I thought of them:
Samuel R. Delany: Dhalgren. How do people survive in a city where things no longer make sense? This book picks up reality and twists it around, managing [...]

Joseph Zitt: Improvisation: Proverbs 30:18-19 from Joseph Zitt on Vimeo.
A vocal improvisation based on a biblical text. Phoenix Coffee on Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH, 1 April 2009.
I’m quite pleased with this, despite coffeeshop noise and people wandering between me and the camera. But such is the open-mic life. I’ve come to realize that fighting [...]