About a year ago I said village Skokie should be renamed Prygi after the great Russian poet, the sun of the Russian poetry, the grandfather of the Moscow conceptualism, the man with a fistfighter's face - Dmitry Sanych Prigov.
All dreams come true, provided they are insane.
A ceremony of the renaming will take place in the Basement, April 15, 7pm. D.A.Prigov is presiding and giving a celebratory lecture. He is also reading poetry and answering questions. After the ceremony he is baptizing babies and signing small insignificant subjects of personal affection to the fans. The crowd is expected to be huge, air stifling, and heat deadly.