In April 2002, I was living in East Humboldt Park with Ben. While we had successfully chased the roaches into the wall with threats of a rent strike, we weren’t able to do a think about the precariously tilting floor or that fact the the bust season had just started for the gangbangers on the corner.
… Read the rest– ALMANAC SAYS –
To get rid of garlic breath, eat an apple.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Sky!
– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Monastery at Green Mountain.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What animals do you most enjoy seeing at the zoo?
As I’ve written about on past occasions, Walter Milton, Jr. became superintendant of the Flint School District short of two years ago. He is currently one of two candidates for that position with the Springfield School District in Illinois. If he leaves, the FBOE will have lost three superintendants in as many years.
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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Sniff lavender oil to reduce anxiety.
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.”
– Michael Stipe
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Make up a gross flavor for cream cheese.
Last week was so busy that it basically dissolved in a haze. The first part of the week, of course, was more of what we’re all used to: New School colloquium events and readings, assignments on the Holocaust and Smashing Pumpkins and serial killers and lumberjacks, voting for LaKisha for American Idol, and all of these other matters of grave and personal importance.
… Read the restI have to say I’m shocked and a little appalled about what I’ve learned about some of you in the last week:
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Who would have thought I associated with such a group of violent tyrants?
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Will there be anything here?
You’ll just have to check in on Sunday and see for yourselves…
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… Read the restI definitely don’t have time today to put up a thoughtful post here, so I’ll link to one instead. Awfully clever of me.
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… Read the rest"Clash of Civilization" Read More »
Not many people have been answering the questions of the day lately… I might get rid of them entirely if things don’t pick up (at least a little).
– ALMANAC SAYS –
An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, 1987.
