teetotaling

While it’s good to THINK FREELY, some things are worth the cost.

old books are NEAT (photo: courtesy John Hopkins Library)

i.e. Brooklyn Public Library’s Library After Dark. Today tickets are 60 bones. Tomorrow they’ll be 75. The event is FREE to due-paying members of the Brooklyn Vanguard, a forming clan of Library patrons ages 21-30something, committed to “expanding the role of the Brooklyn Public Library in the intellectual life of the City of New York.”

Most cultural organizations host attractively ageist groups of these types, i.e.

* The Museum of Modern Art
* Lincoln Center Theater
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art
* The Studio Museum in Harlem

et. al. (limited list circa ‘06, eek!)

Do you belong anywhere? Something to consider. If you can’t afford a LAD ticket or cultural membership “at this time,” don’t drown IN your sorrows. You can still do other FREE things.

Recommended alternative: submerge yourself in Reanimation Library’s culled collection of substream books.

Reanimated (photo: courtesy Reanimation Library)

Happy Leap Day.