– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
The profs of our great university
Display the most striking diversity:
Some wise and some foolish,
Some saintly, some ghoulish,
And some of the utmost perversity.
– Who said this?
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Write a limerick.
Read my article on the Uptown book and music store Shake Rattle and Read at Bookish Us: Shake Rattle and Read and the Uptown Story.
This article has also been promoted on the Uptown Update blog.
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More tomorrow…
– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
Wikipedia: 2009 Scavhunt Rankings.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Now what?
Flint Journal: Pontiac not for sale, GM says, despite local dealership’s offer to buy.
I would be interested, next time I wanted to buy a car.
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– LINK OF THE WEEK –
The University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s your favorite item on the 2009 list?
A youngun’ is anyone who was not old enough to theoretically understand the significance of Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994. It doesn’t matter whether they actually do know or understand said death… however, they have to have been old enough (say eight or nine) to have had a conversation about this musician who made music that a lot of people liked, and he killed himself, and that’s that.
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Today I explored Chicago’s Ashburn neighborhood because it’s the setting of several plays I am currently revising. That sentence implies a circular paradox. Why wouldn’t I have explored the neighborhood before drafting the plays? In a sense, I did.
When I was a First Year at the University of Chicago (in 1997), I chose Ashburn as a setting for a Frankenstein play because the name had a cool sound.
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– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
What is going on here?
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What period of history do you wish you understood better?
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Annoy, tiny blonde one, annoy like the wind!”
– Who said this?
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s your favorite noir?
– So I have been singularly inconsistent about posting lately. That’s okay, because I’ve been working very hard on my writing and looking for a job, and spring cleaning and watching the first season of Veronica Mars when I’ve got time.
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