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– OCTOBER – is diversity month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Johnny Carson.

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
The New York Times: Obama Considers White HOuse Run.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Pancakes or waffles?

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I know that everyone east of the Mississippi has already read Mitch Albom’s gloomy account, so I won’t go into actual game details.

Jess and I were on the way to a party I’d agreed to attend two weeks ago, and Sam called us as we walked.

Tonight: Look up!

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So I feel like I’m writing posts for three different groups of people at once, which may or may not be the case.

The short version: on Thursday I was contacted by Chad Swiatecki of the Flint Journal. He was writing a story on Flint-area bloggers covering the Detroit Tigers and wanted to interview me.

The end of Game 7 of the NLCS last night was even more dramatic than Magglio’s homer, although I only caught a few moments of it here and there. I didn’t change the channel from the seventh inning, though. Basically, the game was 1 to 1 going into the ninth, and then, in a heavy rain (incidentally falling right outside my window, some five miles from Shea stadium), Yadier Molina drove in two runs.

– OCTOBER – is computer learning month.
– TODAY – is Qud Day and the Birth of the Bab.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – John Dewey and Snoop Dogg.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Colombia.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is your favorite Beatles song?

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– OCTOBER – Auto battery safety.

Sometimes I have trouble thinking of a link. My mom stepped in and saved me just moments ago with this:

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Fractured Atlas :: Liberate the Artist

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is your favorite Rolling Stones album?

Last night, Nathan Dembowski, brother to scavhunt judge Matt, passed on due to complications due to cancer. I only met Nathan once, but he was warm and friendly and absolutely energized; it was at a Halloween costume party, and his Pee Wee Herman costume was so perfect and spot-on it threw the rest of us into shadow.

– OCTOBER – is the month of alternate histories.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Arthur Miller, Rita Hayworth, Eminem

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”
– Arthur Miller

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Through a fluke in Constitutional protocol, you have the opportunity to appoint one friend (not an acquaintance, or some famous person whose autograph you’ve somehow acquired) to the Supreme Court.