After my post last week Makes You Think… (the Arts are Important), Amber wrote:

do you feel like it’s different in writing and visual art? are you constantly bombarded with regulations, and the insistence that those regulations keep your work from having any chance of really accomplishing, anyway, what you hope it will?

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Feast of St. Agatha. The moon crosses the equator. The National Zoo’s first cheetah litter in 115 years went on display, 2005.

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
Chicago Sun-Times: Super story, a bitter end for Bears, fans.

I feel very restless today.
I have to get out of this apartment.
Which is difficult to do whilst typing. Hmm.

Selfish Wish #1.

I wish I could sit down and drink a cup of coffee with Billy Corgan.
And I don’t just say that in an idle, fanfreak sort of way.

I feel very restless today.
I have to get out of this apartment.
Which is difficult to do whilst typing. Hmm.

Selfish Wish #1.

I wish I could sit down and drink a cup of coffee with Billy Corgan.
And I don’t just say that in an idle, fanfreak sort of way.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Candlemas. Groundhog day. Full snow New Moon.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
James Joyce.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Equatorial Guinea.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Wherever did you find that amazing DJ?

END OF POST.

I’m not feeling quite as energetic about this post as I was yesterday.
It’s my day off, and with my revision finally finished, I don’t want to spend it in front of the computer. So here’s a short version, and if I get some bites, then I’ll wade in a little deeper.

I’m not feeling quite as energetic about this post as I was yesterday.
It’s my day off, and with my revision finally finished, I don’t want to spend it in front of the computer. So here’s a short version, and if I get some bites, then I’ll wade in a little deeper.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Feast of St. Brigid. Actor Clark Gable born, 1901.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
How to Make a Toga.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What parties will you be attending this week?

END OF POST.

There are books and movies about how if Lindburgh was elected president we’d have a pro-German policy that favored the Nazis. The world, they say would be different.

Along these lines, I wonder if Elizabeth Taylor had killed herself on the set of Cleopatra and bankrupted Fox, we might never have even heard of Rupert Murdoch.

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.