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– SEPTEMBER –
Birthstone: Sapphire.
Flower: Aster.
Virtue: Courtesy.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Queen Elizabeth I, Buddy Holly, and Gloria Gaynor.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Aphex Twin.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Oh no!

Poetry Literature Seminar Fall 2006
Instructor: Mark Bibbins
Myself and Strangers
CRN#1668

This course deals with representations of the self in contemporary poetry, and some of the ways in which authors and their audiences choose to negotiate accountability, identity, honesty, embellishment, polyvocality, gender, experimentation, love, gossip, influence, accuracy, drugs, the lyric, authority, mental illness, genre, style, homage, race, innuendo, labeling, irreverence, independence, fakery, obsession, turf wars, sexuality, political correctness, horniness, objectivity, ellipticism, taste, politics, trust, daring, etc.

– Yesterday – Reading at Barnes and Noble, followed by roleplaying at Marco and Scott’s. I’m the Neutral Evil cleric of Shar from Mulmaster.

– SEPTEMBER – is Being Kind to Writers month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Jane Addams and Dolores O’Riordan.

– Waking, I didn’t know that today was “Be Late to Something Day,” but I honored it by being an hour late to work. First, I got off to a late start, then, after walking fifteen minutes to the subway, I found out that the one thing I’d forgotten was my wallet with cash, credit card, and fare card.

– I didn’t post yesterday because I’ve been working on Here Is No Why, and I hoped to announce a comprehensive overhaul today. However, I have finished the pages for background, news, posted some pictures, links, and a guestbook.

There are “centrist Democrats” and “moderate Republicans,” and “independents.” Under almost all circumstances I’d vote for whoever seemed best qualified for the job, but in essence I’d drectibe myself as a “centrist socialist.”

I don’t believe in proletarian militancy as the vehicle for worldwide reform which rules out communism, nor do I take Marx quite literally enough to be an unabashed socialist.

This is Booty.

Behind Detroit.

Great.

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I’ve had a number of thoughts bubbling up and out for awhile, and the best opportunity to test them was actually last week, when I got into a rich discussion/argument with the unlikely combination of my brother, parents, aunt, grandma, and two family friends.

As profoundly dumb as I usually find Glenn McCoy’s comic (ie. wallowing in the mud of punditry), he probably had the best evocation of the media and the Jon Benet case. Which is here at least for today (since I couldn’t find a permanent link to this strip).

– So Jess and I went to the Bronx yesterday. The game was rained out and the rest of the series sold-out. So we’ll have to wait until next year to see the Tigers play the Yanks. 🙁

– TODAY –
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein) and Huey Long (who wrote that “when Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag”).