COMMENTS
– I arrived to work 45 minutes late today. In the four months I’ve been on assignment here, this is the first time it’s happened. That said, considering that next three posts took me until 4:30 in the morning, I’ve only myself to blame.

GOTHIC FUNK MANIFESTO #2

Like Francesco, the Great Cenci, I’m hungry, but 400 years have passed, so let’s divide, Mitosic like, this manifesto, into two parts:

Part 1. The Boring Part
Part 2. The Interesting Part

* * * * *

PART 1.

I just want to make it,
but still can “excuse”
how
by saying
well
I never want to get caught
by someone who says
“This is something you should have said
but never said,
at least without pressure, pretense, or ceremony,
so that the rest of us might hear.”

Written in my journal as I watched Leno, O’Brien, and Casablanca, and culled again at 2:06 AM to an uncommon dirge by Ellington. Somewhat trunchated:

About NIMBUS from OCCLUDINE 2 9:25 POST-MERIDIAN

I’fe vallen vatally behind, which is not quite fatal.

A Flint Journal editorial: Flint high schools

It’s gross. It sticks. And it cannot be avoided.

I’ve been working on a novel, Urbàntasm, for the last nine years (and probably will be for the next seven). So it goes. But for every high school that closes in Flint, I will kill off a character that would not otherwise be destroyed.

COMMENTS
– I was going to get a bunch done last night, but didn’t get out of work until late, and didn’t get home until around 7:30. I did a little reading, a little writing, and a little corresponding re: the old gradschool apps.

COMMENTS
– Happy Presidents Day. Let’s not be bitter. Let’s remember George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry, Truman, John F. Kennedy, give a breath for Bill Clinton, and keep faith for all the great presidents we might see in the future.

Amber discovered the following constellation:

GREAT BIRD IN THE SKY

or

NAZGUL

I accidentally edited over the entry for last Friday.
The country of the day was Eretria and the question of the day was what African city would you live in. Answers to the question are still posted in comments.

Arg!

COMMENTS
– CALL FOR PHOTOS! There are now half-a-dozen of us that have taken pictures of the five Gothic Funk parties to date. If you email me the photos at connot at afterdusk.org, I’ll create a gallery!
– Gothic Funk Party #5 was delightful.