– ALMANAC SAYS –
Dow Jones industial average first passed 1,000 mark, 1966.
– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Scientific American: The Case of the Pilfered Planet.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What kind of themed calendar ought to exist but probably does not.
A change in the air… Read More »
Today is Andy Kaufman’s birthday. His is fifty-eight years old.
Happy Birthday, Andy.
… Read the restGatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
"There’s no way to describe what I do." Read More »
Such a high note… when the staid ball finally touched down kicking off one of the more eventful years of my life, I was in the middle of a huge revelry at the Crawfords. I’d arrived several hours before with Elliot and Mitch in tow, and a decades worth of friends new and old were crowded in the basement.
… Read the restToday is Andy Kaufman’s birthday.
He died on May 16, 1984, or twenty-two years, three months, and thirty days ago.
"I never told a joke in my life." Read More »
– ALMANAC SAYS –
Ben Franklin born, 1706. Bridge game expert Norman Kay died, 2002.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Anton Chekhov and Andy Kaufman!
– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
A beautiful goose.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What symptoms do you show of being truly angry with yourself?
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.
… Read the restThe Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett. Read More »
Somebody was saying something about celebrity deaths coming in threes. This month we’ve had:
1. Gerald Ford.
He was Michigan’s only president, originally from Grand Rapids, which is my mom’s hometown. He has also become un-controversial enough by now that just following his death his Wikipedia article is only “semi-protected.”
… Read the restDead by 2007. President Gerald Ford. Read More »
– IN THE ALMANAC –
Louis Riel, leader of Mètis resistance vs. Canada, hanged, 1885.
After black clouds, clear weather.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Lisa!
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.”
– ALMANAC SAYS –
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday (observed)
– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
New York Times: U.S. and Iraqis Are Wranging Over War Plans.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
How do you celebrate Martin Luther King day?
