Often, at work, I feel incredibly restless, and I want to make any excuse I can think of and excuse myself. The idea is to go home and write. I have the impression that time is running out; that distance, money, possessions, contact, friendship, talent, beauty, thought, and all other resources can be collapsed into just one: time.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Use small fish, such as minnows, when fishing for pike or pickerel.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
The Schizophrenia Bulletin.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What do you do when you want/need to relax?

Continued from here…

What it means.

It is meant to be political, but not didactic.
Tori’s argument is largely that the political process has been missing a loud, boisterous dialogue.
So: Instead of simply leveling one-dimension of invective against incumbant powers, she creates (nevertheless critical) characters to represent different points-of-view.

I’ve always had an interest in esotericism… Flint has a prominent Masonic Temple downtown and Detroit’s Masonic Temple is one of the most prominent features of its New Center skyline. Also, my grandfather was a Freemason, and other members of my family were involved through the 70s, though nobody from my generation.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
It rained fish at Tiller’s Ferry, South Carolina, after a heavy shower, 1901.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Available Store Fronts in Attica.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Assuming no negative consequences, what part of what other country would you like to be in right now?

Political Things I want to talk about: 1) organic foods, 2) ends and means, and 3) activism. But I don’t know enough to trust my opinion yet, and anyway, those subjects are too large to take on up front right now.

WARNING: These comments came out something more stream-of-consciousness than I’d intended.

Tori Amos is one of my very very favorite musicians, so I’m already going to have oodles of bias in her favor. It has been interesting to consider her career and its reception as a barometer for the role of a genre of music within the establishment.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Phoenix, Arizona, reached 122 degrees F, today in 1990.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
– Ray Bradbury

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Free Association!

This is far and away the most danceable soundtrack of this sort I’ve devised. If this was playing at a party at which there were cool kids, I bet they’d spend a decent chunk of time dancing!

1. Hole – Heaven Tonight
2. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – The Message
3. Public Enemy – Bring the Noise
4. Cranberries – Will You Remember?

This past week I celebrated “Eventime,” a project I started to develop when I was in 6th grade to acknowledge and give a name to the year that has passed and to make plans for the year up ahead. I’ve gradually elaborated this idea, and it has been useful in increasing day-to-day productivity by situating it all in a larger context.