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– ALMANAC SAYS –
First train crossed Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, Niagara River, 1855.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
This Made Me Smile.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Do you often lend out books, CDs, etc.? Borrow?

Part of the noir reading list I put together for my thesis with the help of Robert Polito and Jeffery Allen. As such, it was “required reading.”

Something that wouldn’t have changed my choice of thesis project, but that would have nevertheless been good to consider, is the fact that where one is writing about serial killers, institutional dysfunction, adolescent rage, and the holocaust, research will delve into the same subjects.

Part of the noir reading list I put together for my thesis with the help of Robert Polito and Jeffery Allen. As such, it was “required reading.”

Something that wouldn’t have changed my choice of thesis project, but that would have nevertheless been good to consider, is the fact that where one is writing about serial killers, institutional dysfunction, adolescent rage, and the holocaust, research will delve into the same subjects.

I don’t remember anything from this month.

Where were you in March, 1981?

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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Feast of St. Perpetua. Mercury stationary. Brilliant nationwide aurora borealis, 1918.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Those crazy kids.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
It’s you vs. a gang of nunchuck and sabre wielding vampires.

In response to this story: The Rock under attack again.

I have written the following to SUE SMITH, Director of Education of Training at Keep America Beautiful. Her email is sue@preventlitter.org.

I will also be sending off letters to HILLARY CLINTON, a supporter of Keep America Beautiful, as well as STEVE WALL of the City Nuisance Task Force and KAY KELLY of the Kearsley Park project.

Evidently Rodney King was actually a man named Glen King. The pressed mixed up the two names.

Question: In what way does “Glen” sound anything like “Rodney”?

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When the wind winds from the west to the east, you could at least do your best to be a good sport and curl up with a story and make some hot chocolate and watch a movie or something. You could water the plants or feed the cats or try to count the pigeons.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Moon at apogee. Renaissance man Michelangelo born, 1475.

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

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Just grit your teeth and answer the question.