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– Finished Tenebre. Watched Deadwood.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
How many tattoos do you have, and what are they of, and where?

– Yesterday I started – then stopped – Gray Skies (aka Notes for Students aka White Swan). I realized about three pages in that it was going to take about twice as long, and would turn out to be about a third as good, as I had hoped.

– CUTTING OUT THE FAT – I’m going to, for the moment at least, do away with the News/Quote/Picture/Link/Country of the week. I rarel see any sign that they are of interest to people, and anyway, if something demands linking, I can just put up a post linking it.

– Yesterday I ate pizza from Little Louis. That was the most exciting thing to happen yesterday. Also, I’ve decided that Aelius Aristides has the most annoying rhetorical style of antiquity.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
I’ve always been told that you shouldn’t stuff a turkey the night before you cook it.

– After work yesterday I explored SoHo, then went home, did the dishes, at French Toast with the wife, and watched Deadwood. I also started my Chicago job-search.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
It is bad luck to sweep trash out the door at night.

– After two years of living in New York (and just two months before leaving, presumably for good) I’ve discovered my favorite thing about this city: the Cloisters. It felt like the merger of all things Uptown. I got off the subway and immediately onto an elevator that transported me what must have amounted to eight or ten stories.

– Yesterday, after work, I continued the slow process of saying goodbye to New York, neighborhood by neighborhood. Today, it was to be Loisaida (Alphabet City) in the East Village. I walked maybe four miles, taking in everything from 10th Street down to 3rd, from Avenues A to D.

– I read Sallusts’ War With Cataline. I wonder who we could consider the closest modern equivalent to Cicero? Also, I started watching Deadwood. My friends were right; it’s totally like Hungry Rats. Swearengen is just like Jim Carr, if only he’d lived another ten or so years.

– Ayeterday was hornswaggled. Especially t’ end. T’ beginnin’ and middle were okay, I guess. I read some Stephen Hawkin’ and some Quintus Cicero.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Today in Weather History: New York City had a record high temperature o’ 92 degrees F, while snow fell in t’ West, 1983.

– Yesterday was a “day off,” partly because I was so exhausted. Got home. Finished reading a book. Made dinner. Watched an episode of Taxi. Fell asleep well before Leno.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Pick pears when the fruit has a faint yellow blush but is still green.