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Well. What a depressing book to read over the Thanksgiving holiday!

Although, while it was depressing, it wasn’t precisely discouraging. This contradiction was one of the most fascinating aspects of this piece to me… that while the subject matter was not only somber, but entropically somber (ie.

Going to put off the American Idol thing until tomorrow.
Today is too tired.
Tomorrow is in February, the month of Valentines Day and Mardi Gras.
Today is just January.

But when I write it, it will be great. I already have plans to talk about the Apollo Theater, about Pericles and the Athenian Constituion, about Corporate Plutocrats, and all that.

Today’s big blogging project is a Periclean and Harlemite defense of American Idol. But since I haven’t worked up the wind for that, here’s a pretty good survey I got from Gemma. Fill in and repost, or comment in the comments.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
First U.S. federal safety standards for vehicle safety issues, 1967.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
While I do thinnk that the Pirate vs. Ninja thing is/has getting/gotten a little old, every so often something is too good to pass up.

Everyone’s linking to stories about the apocalypse these days.

Okay: Here’s my contribution.

I’m with the journalist, but I wouldn’t bet the farm.

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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.”

Matthew Scudder is an ex-cop without a job per se. Instead, he bums around Manhattan doing detective-style “favors” for friends in exchange for their donations.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Mood rides high.
Raccoons mate now.
Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco, 1847.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

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.”

Matthew Scudder is an ex-cop without a job per se. Instead, he bums around Manhattan doing detective-style “favors” for friends in exchange for their donations.

I think this syllabus is unreasonably biased toward people with the last name Palmer.

Logicalogics was a fun way to go out. It strikingly reminded me of the sort of work I saw working on my high school’s literary magazine.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Fear to let fall a drop, and you will spill a lot.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Thomas Paine.

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
BBC News: Israel’s Katsav faces rape charge.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What encyclopedia are you most qualified to write?