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_{Note: the information here is all gathered from The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City’s History.}

New York City is built upon very old land.

The Manhattan Schist, Fordham Gneiss, and Inwood Limestone that forms the bulk of the city’s bedrock is all dated to the pre-Cambrian era; that is, it’s as old as the Earth’s rocky crust gets.

August 1st · Monday

I was the very last person on the plane to Columbus, and as such was seated in the very front row between an overly chipper MBA from Chicago and an excessively grumpy and overweight Ohioan (“We gonna hit the mud!”

One step goes one step by one step:

To start close to home, and selfishly, my chest has been expansive, and I’m bursting with pride. First the word arrives that Detroit is taking on hurricane refugees, then Governor Granholf’s commitment to house 10,000 homeless.

As a writer confronted with a computer screen, it’s simply natural to confront something like a month as something like a story. So here, after I haven’t posted in close to two months, I’m posting the story of August from top to bottom, and I’m telling it in just that way.

from February, 1998

GOODBYE

Don’t wait up.
I might be awhile.
I have to go down to the woods and down to the stream
and out of the woods and out of the stream
before I get back.

You shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for my arrival.

from March, 2001

from the ARKADIAN ARCHIVE
Review: Lolita, Stanley Kubrick 19xx, adaptation of novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Reviewed by Max Zempfski-Shannon.

Lolita was a very Baa, Baa blacksheep movie.
As I sit at my typewryter, my dog, Archie, yapping “Fast!”

Well, not exactly, not so official, but as far as the blog’s concerned, it’s not exactly as if I’ve been diligently posting these last several weeks in the first place.

In the six weeks, I will be taking multiple trips to both Michigan and Ohio, having my bachelor’s party, getting married, spending a week on my honeymoon in Belize, moving a thousand miles to the East Coast, and going through orientation and beginning classes at the New School.