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I’m in a bunch of a bind right now.

Like anything, it comes from a bunch of assumptions I make about myself and the world in order to function, and then live by rigorously, even when they are contradicted, as assumptions will be.

OLD SPACE

Draw a dot.

Draw a ring around the dot.

Draw a slash through the ring and through the dot.

Divide the thing and fill it in with red or blue or green,

and cut it up into pie slices and eat them every one,

and run your pinky on the edge until you feel the groove,

then tighten, tighten, tighten until the core doesn’t move.

Before I could go for a walk from Chicago to Joliet along former Route 66, I had to get from work to 66.

A 2 mile walk, approximately.

I took some pictures.

Call this the “prewalk.”

PREWALK

Where I work.

I met Pam on the corner of 31st and Union (700 W), circa 10 PM last night, after walking down Archer to Chinatown, sitting for an hour, rereading Urbàntasm, sipping Green Tea and Hong Kong coffee, and chewing Pork and Shrimp Dumpling Soup, on the way home.

Time’s almost up, kids.

You’ve got until 11:59:59 Wednesday to email me a 1-2 page essay on the superiority of ninjas or pirates.

The price is good: an appropriate T-Shirt or fifth of fine rum/sake.

~ Connor

I hope to post the photos of my nightwalk tonight. I’ve got them transfered to disk, so it should be relatively simple.

Thursday was my last day at work. It went well; I stayed until 10 PM, to make it a 40-hour week.

“…it may be that the confusions trailing Mr. Moore’s narrative are what make “Fahrenheit 9/11″ an authentic and indispensable document of its time.”

– A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“At its best, “Fahrenheit 9/11″ is an impressionist burlesque of contemporary American politics that culminates in a somber lament for lives lost in Iraq.”

FAHRENHEIT 9/11

and

MICHAEL MOORE

I don’t believe in judging something prematurely, or rather, I think judgment should be restrained in proportion to firsthand knowledge.

Still, so many issues of importance to me are brought to bear in both this particular film and in Michael Moore’s career as a whole.

I got this from Embeth.

If I were a month, I would be: April

If I were a time of day, I would be: Twilight

If I were a planet, I would be: Neptune

If I were a sea animal, I would be: Sea Anemone

If I were a direction, I would be: East

If I were a piece of furniture, I would be: A hammock

If I were a sin, I would be: Blasphemy

If I were a historical figure, I would be: Andy Kaufman, Antonin Artaud, or Paul of Tarsus

If I were a stone, I would be: Pumice

If I were a tree, I would be: A willow, ash, or linden

If I were a bird, I would be: Blue Jay

If I were a tool, I would be: An inclined plane.

Partial victory. Partial failure.

A riot’s desolation.

A blocked-off path between cliffs.

Confusion and frustration.

I’ll blog on this later today… with photos, I hope.

~ Connor