katwoman: tis gettin cold out!
katwoman: i cant believe it!
JPennant: yeah.. you know its chilly when your mother starts fussing around looking for your heavy gloves.
katwoman: :-)

I swear, last night when I visited the Brooklyn manor, thats what Ma was doin.

It may have only gotten down to the fifties officially last night, but lemme tell ya.. it durn skippied felt around the 30's.

Still, its no time for me to be putting on the heavy gloves. Not just yet.

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Me: I dunno, Im getting sick of having to take two different trains just to get into the city....
Ma: So come and move back to New York. This is where the action is.

Ma, shrewder than the average bear, doesnt just utter things lightly.

She may not understand what I do, and considers me more stubborn than the average moose, but she knows my nature pretty well.

Im being worked on.
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Apart from California and probably Minnesota, New York City - likely because of the sheer crush of humanity, manages to get people to couple inter-racially more than most places, in spite of themselves.

Except for one pairing. Black women and other races (except if the women themselves are multi-racial and/or caribbean hispanic).

Struth. You just dont see it. Rarely, if ever here.

But after the events of 9/11, Im slowly but very surely seeing some change to that dynamic.

The unlikeliest folk are connecting. An example of that is on almost every train in NY Ive taken lately, Ive seen black women and caucasian men of all types together.. not really caring if people stare.

More power. Glad people are starting to say 'fuckit..' to people's barriers to connecting because of culture, class and race.

Even if it took shock to release some of the hidebound attitudes.

F'rinstance, Hasidim are relaxing slightly their standoffish ways and sitting with old caribbean women, people are cooing with muslim babies on the train.

A good thing.

Lets hope this is a permanent shift in attitudes. Even if it seems to be only a subtle shift for now.