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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Never spend your money before you have it. — Thomas Jefferson

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
New York Times: After Sarkozy Win, France Looks to Parliament Vote.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Where would you put the zombies?

– ALMANAC SAYS –
– Not much time atall today.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Blogostan.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What does your favorite shirt look like?

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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Graft fruit trees now.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Scavhunt

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Two questions, as submitted by my guests.
1. Eminent Domain – what’s the deal with that?
2. If we all lived in the Phantom Tollbooth where we were born at the height we’ll always be, and our feet grew to the ground, what would we do?

– I’ve 70% changed my mind on the NIN album. On a couple relistens, it’s incredibly catchy. Likewise, the backstory is cheesy to the n^th, but Rolling Stone said something to the effect that “at least it got his creative juices moving.”

Before the Vacation

The week before the week we went on vacation now feels like so long ago, I don’t know if I can properly talk about it. My schedule had become so busy, with one deadline basically on top of another, that I divided my schedule into chunks so that I could prioritize more systematically.

1) Thesis: Done! (Much excitement and exhileration resulting.)
2) I bought the new Nine Inch Nails album. I’m initially disappointed, but I’m going to go on and give it more chances than it deserves. I had hoped that With Teeth was a transitional movement to something better, more daring and different… that Reznor had rediscovered the originality that he ceded after The Downward Spiral.

You see?
You see?

So the vacation and weddings were great, but so far today is awful. It has everything to do with a 300-page thesis absolutely due by six, and Kinkos having changed their mind on the question of whether or not they have acid-free paper.

Hey. So Jess and I are going away on vacation/wedding-excursions to Chicago and Ohio. Then, when I get back, my thesis is pretty much immediately due. Obviously, I won’t be posting here. Blue Skies Falling will be back, with all its typical vigor, on Tuesday, May 1st.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
The temperature soared to 90 degrees F in New York City, 1896.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Moss.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
One of you requested this one by email:
Compose a song/poem/lyrical what-have-you from found lyrics–to be at least 10 lines in length, and with an apparent rhyme scheme.

1. The big ones, the ones involving people in our demographic (generally speaking), have seemed to happened in March or April. Columbine happened in April, the Kayla Rolland shooting happened in March, the Oklahoma City Bombing happened in April. Jonesboro was late March.