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I should have written about it yesterday.

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– THE ALMANAC SAYS –
Today is the feast of St. Timothy and St. Titus.
Tornado hit factory, Pottsville, Pa., 1843.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Argentina.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
I’ve talked a lot (and so have you) about who we would hope to be the Democratic nominee for President in 2008.

It’s an interesting coincidence this week that I wrote you some comments on postmodernism, in which the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle prominently features, and then we read (what most would consider an indisputably postmodern work) Reluctant Gravities, which involves the same phenomena.

As you’ve probably gathered from my email, I still haven’t finished the book. Although I think I’ve over halfway through if everything I read from the beginning and near the end is counted. At any rate, I’m disappointed that this is the one book I’ve evidently dropped the ball with, because I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read and think that was a class discussion I would’ve been quite involved in.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Today is the Feast of the Conversion of Paul.
G.D. Dows patented an improved soda fountain, 1870.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Robert Burns and Virginia Woolf.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
The Theoi Project.

While I’m not going to sully this fair space with advertisement, I’ve been blogging for over three years now and haven’t made a single red cent.

So… I’ve resurrected the original Blue Skies Falling. Basically I installed code for Google Ad-Sense and will re-post CONCEPT art and review posts there.

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.”

This is actually the second of the “assigned books” that I picked up, but it has such an undeniable place in the canon that I feel I have to address it first.

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.”

I read The Postman Always Rings Twice prior to The Maltese Falcon, mainly because the former was shorter.

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.”

This was actually the first mystery I read for the project, and having read it last November, my memory gets a little hazy.

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.”

This was actually the first mystery I read for the project, and having read it last November, my memory gets a little hazy.