COMMENTS:
– The short version of the last week and a half. The weekend before last involved the planning of the road trip. Not much I can say about that. Last week involved drama at work (I quit briefly, and then reinstated myself), and in other areas, and lots of work on scav hunt… on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I believe.

COMMENTS:
– What can I say, what can I say, about yesterday? I worked until about 1:45. I got home a little before 3. I took a nap. I rode down to Hyde Park for grueling work on scavhunt. And I got up today, and here I am.

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated links, and here are a couple that I am seriously remiss for holding out from:

Coral at Coral Rocks is yet another amazing person I’ve met through Sam Perkins-Harbin (I believe he commands the market with a cardinal link in roughly 37% of such transactions) who is in absolute command of one of the most poised syntheses of sponteneity, taste, and occasionally painful candor.

COMMENTS:
– I got home a little late from work yesterday. The only really useful thing I did was finally buy Tori Amos’ The Beekeeper (released in February), and sleep a lot. But, then, I needed a lot of sleep.

On April 18th, I reported on a public housing debacle involving the Flint Housing Commission and HUD. The Housing Commission issued a number of housing vouchers beyond the federal funding provided by HUD. As a result, many tenants signed leases they now cannot pay, and will shortly be evicted.

COMMENTS:
– Weather: It will be getting cool and damp to day. Expect it. Enjoy it.

CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE DAY
Irving Park.

WORD OF THE DAY
Nascent.

NEWS OF THE DAY
The San Francisco Chronicle: Noted activist for war victims killed in car bomb attack.

“Describe a dream.”

This was submitted by Amber:

I’ve had to wait on this one, until I had a dream I could remember
well enough to describe. Well, I had one last night…and it might
even qualify as a nightmare.

Blueberry eggy melody sassafras saccharine blueberry boo.

15 DAYS to SCAV HUNT

from the 18th annual Hunt:

Item #130. There’s only one force in the universe strong enough to brighten the moods of a whole convention-load of goths (640 N. Dearborn St. 11:00 PM on Thursday, incidentally) the CARE BEAR STARE!

Not quite the dare my mom posed, but close enough after she made me potato salad.

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No organization involved in the recent retraction of housing vouchers by the Flint Housing Commission has escaped untarnished. Unfortunately, this extends to coverage of the event by the Flint Journal.