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Not many people have been answering the questions of the day lately… I might get rid of them entirely if things don’t pick up (at least a little).

– ALMANAC SAYS –
An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, 1987.

I definitely don’t have time today to put up a thoughtful post here, so I’ll link to one instead. Awfully clever of me.

END OF POST.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
A problem well stated is a problem half solved. –Charles Franklin Kettering

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Concept Unification Installation Tape, aka, Your Childhood Mercilessly Dismantled!

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
How will you respond to your critics?

A friend asked me to list ten things about myself that you didn’t know.
I’m not going to list anything truly lurid (those are things you’ll have to ask me in person), and I can’t promise that nobody will not know any of these things.

Part of the reading list I put together for my thesis with the help of Robert Polito and Jeffery Allen. As such, it was required reading.

Actually, my comments on this book are best presented in conjunction with those on Tom Powers’ book.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Has anyone else seen a Moon rainbow? If so, are they common?

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Gonzo and Camilla.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Go here.

What effect do you think your policies will have on your nation?

First, I stumbled across this today: Street Prophers :: Faith and Politics. It’s run in conjunction with Daily Kos with the slogan “the Right doesn’t own faith”… sounds encouraging to me. We’ll see.

Second, I’m really impressed with the Wikipedia article on the political spectrum.

Part of the noir reading list I put together for my thesis with the help of Robert Polito and Jeffery Allen. As such, it was “required reading.”

For me, this book was highly significant. I found it in the local section of the Flint Borders in 2003, and it contained, among others, the story of Jim Carr and Maggie Duncan which became important to Hungry Rats.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
A fast-moving blizzard swept through eastern Newfoundland, 2006.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”

Exhausted from this past weekend. Lots of writing and revising. But it’ll all be over in just over a month. Ugh… There was a lot of fun, though.
Last Wednesday I read from Hungry Rats at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, which was a blast.