Do You Know What You're Getting Into?

Do you know what you're getting into? Glenlivet asks. Do you know anything about these people?

We are practicing for our performing debut, a one-tanda demo with David Hodgson, Goth and Dancing Woo-Woo Master.

The performance is tonight, at an event called Leaping Man: Portals to Other Worlds. Lots of artsy types doing the gallery poetry music dance thing. So self-conscious that attending it is, in itself, performance art.

Andy Warhol would have called this an art happening.

Why is it called Leaping Man?

Leap Day + Burning Man = Leaping Man

Burning Man is when people from all over the world go to the desert for Labor Day weekend and have art and sex and drugs and horrible, techno pounding music night and day for three days.

And… wear Very Cool Costumes.

I love costumes!

My costumes for tango are Minimalist: plain pants, plain shirts, close-fitting but not tight. No skin, no plunging neckline, no see-through, no splits, ….

Once I wore a pair of something that showed my ankles and lower calves. A fuss was raised.

I am the librarian of tango. Shy. Quiet. Nondescript. Bourgeois.

Except …

Do you think a writer survives in New York, albeit upstate, without rubbing a few avant-garde shoulders?

Without developing a sense of avant-garde style?

And a little derring-do?

I am the librarian of tango. Everyone knows this.

You know what you see.

Tonight, Glenlivet will see something new.

Heh-heh.