Reading (For Dummies)

Did you hear the one about the Polish Scholarship?

Went to my usual coffee (or tea?) haunt, and I ran into a little festival, just winding down.

That's polishscholarship.com, folks

Dumb ideas

No offense meant to the polish, but it's generally not a good idea to hold your fundraiser in the Clinton Square fountain (which was drained for the festivities) in one of the rainier cities in the country. The sitting/standing/walking area for the concert and foodstands was in a gigantic puddle, since the fountain bottom is the lowest point in the area. Even with its little drains, my feet were getting quite wet standing around.

Aside from that, the coffehouse was a bit busier than usual. Old men were teaching young high-schoolers about poetry in a move that sparked pedophilia scares among their parents. In reality, I remember hanging out with some of the same old men (one I remember especially well was this old dude Walter, a vietnam vet in Mt. Holly who was weening himself off heroine and onto methadone. A bunch of friends and myself used to hang out and listen to the dude. The coffeehouse (Down to Earth, it's hard to say if they're still in business or not...maybe I'll swing by there on my next trip to Jersey) was pretty hippy'ish and receptive to that sort of thing. More so than here, maybe. Ohwell, take the good with the bad.