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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Good health is above wealth. 6.5 earthquake near Los Angeles, California, 1971.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Tomorrow – Gemma!

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Puerto Rico.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Here.

NOTE – Thank you all for making the last several days so interesting. There are a number of comments now on Global Warming, progressive activism, and perhaps most importantly American Idol. I can’t afford to spend the whole weekend in front of the computer, so I’ll get to these next week.

… that a new Smashing Pumpkins album is coming out this July?

I am, right now, at this moment, sitting in a quiet room at Facts on File. The “room” is actually half of the floor, but it has been partitioned into not cubicals, but sub-rooms by cubical walls.

1988… The Smashing Pumpkins form.

Gish… 1991

Siamese Dream… 1993

Pisces Iscariot… 1994

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness… 1995

Adore… 1998

Machina / The Machines of God… 2000

Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music… 2000

2000… The Smashing Pumpkins disband.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Last quarter moon at apposition. Conjunction of Venus and Uranus. Mercury at the greatest Eastern elongation (18 degrees).

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
It’s a discoteque!

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
When was the last time you stayed up all night (ie.

I just got a form email from Senator Clinton reiterating her support for Net Neutrality, a subject I had written her about many months ago. I appreciate the response, partly because it’s kind of unheard of. I never received a response from Debbie Stabenow regarding her support of the Military Commisions Act, and I often don’t even hear back from people I contact at the Flint Journal.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Massachusetts became the 6th U.S. state, 1788.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

I should explain, every now and then, the method of producing these “months”… half of the time the years is determined by a straight randomization of the years I’ve lived minus one. The month is always synchronous with the month at the time the post is written.

After my post last week Makes You Think… (the Arts are Important), Amber wrote:

do you feel like it’s different in writing and visual art? are you constantly bombarded with regulations, and the insistence that those regulations keep your work from having any chance of really accomplishing, anyway, what you hope it will?

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Feast of St. Agatha. The moon crosses the equator. The National Zoo’s first cheetah litter in 115 years went on display, 2005.

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
Chicago Sun-Times: Super story, a bitter end for Bears, fans.