"BigHat" Grand Finale DoNotBaFraid2Dance:TODAY! (The Last Inventory) from 6 to 9pm @ the ArtLot.

THANKS! to WorldWiDeTour09, B+ Productions, Jim Osman, TheArtLot, Mazzat, Jimmy, Tessa, Linnette, Dave, Ann Chen, John Bjerklie, Matt Blackwell, Thomas, Everybody at Sackett and Columbia and of course, HIBS. What a great Time we have had!! To Celebrate "BigHat" does his televised Grand Finale Dance-Off somewhere between 6 and 9. Come on down and Do Not B Afraid 2 DANCE!!!

BBQ

A Great BBQ @ ArtLot! Thanks for comin' out!!

WorldWiDeTour09 "Dead of Winter" BBQ; Come 'n Gettit!!

Now that WorldWiDeTour09 is completely out of date, we would like to honor that fact by getting all of our Dead Wood together, toss it in a can, light it up and throw whatever holiday leftovers we have on the grill and....Yep! Have a "Dead of Winter" Barbecue! Join your hosts Matt Blackwell & John Bjerklie for the first BBQ of the year and Come on Down to the ArtLot!! We have some stuff to throw on, but if you wanna bring something too, Bring it on! We are starting at 2pm this Sunday, January 10. worldwidetour09.blogspot.com ArtLot is at 206 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY

Serious inspiration for "BigHat" when Brooklyn Poet Irving Barry makes a studio visit to the ArtLot

Brooklyn Poet Irving Barry paid a visit to WorldWiDeTour's "BigHat" down at the ArtLot the other day. Here is a shot of Irv reading a poem about his grandfather dreaming of herring at the Metropolitan (Museum of Art, that is). "BigHat" responded with a drawing inspired by the reading. Barry read 7 or 8 poems (some of them two or three times so "BigHat" could think about it, if you get the drift), including his notorious "Pancake Heaven", inspired by his many visits to the "Hook & Anchor" here in Redhook.

PANCAKE HEAVEN by Irving Barry

Pancake Heaven

In pancake heaven
the waitress smiles
like you’re the only one
while a homemade mix
of bygone music plays:
Louis Armstrong,
Lady Day, blazing.

Coffee arrives in
its own sweet time
pancakes too
golden brown
buttered and beautiful,
thirsting for syrup
like me.

Irving Barry