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…a house one block from where I used to live just blew up.

The residents of adjacent houses have to move because their homes are now condemned for structural instability.

They were homeowners without insurance.

Someone needs to do something about this place.

I was thirteen.

7th grade, 2nd semester.

I had been kept out of doing any theater because of bad grades, and my Mission (to get a “real cool girlfriend”) had only met with occasional and haphazard success. I think it was roughly at this time that I briefly dated T.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Cotton gin patented, 1794. Musician Quincy Jones born, 1933.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Evil Robot.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
I’ve been really indulging in my political brain this week.
So what I’m wondering is this: you have the chance to take any leader of your country out for dinner and an interview.

Picking this up from both Milligan and Gemma, based on a set of (now pilloried, at least among People I Know) criteria laid out by Time magazine blogger Joe Klein. The question being, does he think I’m a left wing extremist?

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Discovery of Pluto officially announced, 1930.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Now are the winds about us in their glee,
Tossing the slender tree.”
– William Gilmore Simms

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Wow, one answer.

Some of my cohorts have been especially prolific lately. Today I particularly enjoyed Purple Scarf and EGAD.

Also, there’s this to give me a headache.

And speaking of the devil, here are two surveys.

Finally, I don’t find it particularly likely, but just FYI: If Newt Gingritch is our next president, I am officially going to puke.

A few thoughts on writing that I recently shared with a friend:

I’m not putting this forth as a critic but as a writer, and that is that I am always aware of certain kinds of tension when I read and write.

Interesting this week this week. I actually recently received some very exciting news but I’m going to sit on in until I have something substantial to say.
On Monday I met with Jeff, my advisor. On Thursday there was role-playing.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
12″ snow in parts of Kentucky, Louisiana, and North Carolina, 1960.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Brian, of the Vulgarians!

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Antigua and Barbuda.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Oi.