Almost Daily Indolent spinster Report #7 from DOXA 2018

Friday the 11th. saw Portraits XL Leon (with 3 short original series portraits from 20 years earlier.) by Alain Cavalier at DOXA, cinematheque. I sat too close, but don't care. it's my thing i do at DOXA, sit in the front row. Once again a charming thoughtful program. If you are missing DOXA this year, you are missing out.

Before the movie, i went downtown and had a few hours of nostalgia, eating at Taf's one of the joints that i first went to and met folks for drinks and food downtown when i first moved to the city in 1991. i went to a bookstore and bought my friend's new novel (Maureen Medved's Black Star.)

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