– I am posting at a couple minutes past midnight, and while it is technically Monday (Olympics coverage having given way to the local news), something feels pleasantly transgressive about the action. Bwa ha!
– THE WEEKEND – It was deleriously ineffectual, though for some reason i’m not all that disappointed.

– TODAY – I was going to go out in search of Mario (a fellow Brooklynite), and lo! It is raining. Well, shit. I might go anyway, inasmuch as it’s going to top out at thirty-three degrees tomorrow, and at least right now I can count on a little warmth.

Oddly enough, I excluded 1982 from my list of particular intense years. It was. In away this is like identifying the activity of certain mesolithic “civilizations” as being intense… it’s the amount of relative activity that makes the statement. I remember more from the age of four than three or five by leaps and bounds, and six barely competes.

– My computer is too damn slow…
– YESTERDAY – Work was uneventful, but I was very relieved to finish my current project. I’ve been tracking down public-domain images from Library of Congress and other sources for science entries, but we could only use images we were 100% sure were PD, which is a lot harder than you might think.

While nobody has accused me of Freysting something, I was gently let know by email yesterday that perhaps my take on electronic music is not sufficient to take on Orbital. That’s fine. I’ll be back for Orbital later. Sooner then you may expect.

Pale Fire

I’m deliberately abbreviating my thoughts here because I want to see if my opinions are altered at class tonight. While I certainly would’ve enjoyed Tristram Shandy on it’s own merits, reading is like religious or Calculus; it’s most comprehensible when experienced with others.

– YESTERDAY – Quintessential New York City-working-part-time-MFA-student day. After work I stopped at a Walgreens for some shopping and headed home. Jess and I watched Gilmore Girls (this episode, Luke was the one acting flakey) and then I spent the remainder of the night finishing Pale Fire.

I didn’t think the Bush administration was in any way comparable to the Founding Fathers, but evidently Cheney’s got something on Aaron Burr.

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I want to review Snivilisation by Orbital, and some other electronic music albums, but I don’t know if I have it right. So I’m posting an “overview” in the hope that you’ll let me know when I’m right, correct me when I’m wrong, and generally offer your point of view as comments.

The summer of 1999 remains one of the most intense times in my life. It ranks alongside spring 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004-2005 in this regard. It’s almost frightening how incedentally shaped apertures are so consistantly cyclical. Anyway…

There’s not enough space or time here for all of the adventures of August, 1999, but I’ll tell one that occurred near the beginning.