– NOVEMBER – is lifewriting month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Martin Scorsese and Danny DeVito.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Ecuador.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Danny DeVito is best in _______.

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Milton Friedman has died.

The article as posted by The University of Chicago.

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Clearly everything’s up in the air today. I spent two hours today trying to pay four bills, only one of which was successfully brought to completion.

So insteado posting one of my usual insightful persistant political diatribes, I’m going to link to another.

This is my favorite piece of writing that we’ve encountered in class so far. I’m going to start sounding like a skipping record, because my second favorite piece was The Master Letters, and while I wouldn’t call Pessoa out for #3, I think I wrote of him more effusively than I intended.

– So I’m just posting now, at approximately two. Sorry. Each week gets progressively more sleep deprived. I got ten hours of sleep last night; about what I got in the three preceding days. The better flipside of this is that I’m getting lots done.

– NOVEMBER – is Healthy Skin month.
– TODAY – is America Recycles Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Georgia O’Keefe.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
When I was seven-to-ten years old, I was browsing a book on Carnival Cruise lines and I was totally captivated by a thumbnail sized photo of the “Oz Discothèque” on one of their ships.

– NOVEMBER – is the month of Georgia peacans.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Claude Monet.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“To be an adult is to be alone.”
– Jean Rostand.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
A paradox you enjoy.

Last Thursday was the Feast of the Lateran Basilica.

The Archibasilica Sanctissimi Salvatoris is the ecumenical mother church of Catholicism and the only Cathedral in the jurisdiction of Rome itself. This means that it has precedent over every other Catholic church, including the Basilica of St.

– NOVEMBER – is family caregivers month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Marie Curie, Albert Camus, and Joni Mitchell.

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
news.com.au – Air guitar in fashion.
It’s an article about an air guitar that actually works.

The fat lady sang.

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