The procedure only Russians know, first we sweat beyond our limits, well certainly I did as they periodically poured water on the hot furnace. After exiting the sauna, you threw-off your covering and dip yourself in a small pool, individually and privately, this is the shock treatment from hot to cold. Next was a game of water polo in a hundred squ
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After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
... See moreShobashi comes alive at night. From appearances, it’s a dump. And from sundown to sun-up, on the third floor of a building throbbing with karaoke reverb, you’ll find the bar where Makiko works, five nights a week, from seven until around midnight.