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– ALMANAC SAYS –
First U.S. federal safety standards for vehicle safety issues, 1967.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
While I do thinnk that the Pirate vs. Ninja thing is/has getting/gotten a little old, every so often something is too good to pass up.

Everyone’s linking to stories about the apocalypse these days.

Okay: Here’s my contribution.

I’m with the journalist, but I wouldn’t bet the farm.

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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.”

Matthew Scudder is an ex-cop without a job per se. Instead, he bums around Manhattan doing detective-style “favors” for friends in exchange for their donations.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Mood rides high.
Raccoons mate now.
Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco, 1847.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

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.”

Matthew Scudder is an ex-cop without a job per se. Instead, he bums around Manhattan doing detective-style “favors” for friends in exchange for their donations.

I think this syllabus is unreasonably biased toward people with the last name Palmer.

Logicalogics was a fun way to go out. It strikingly reminded me of the sort of work I saw working on my high school’s literary magazine.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Fear to let fall a drop, and you will spill a lot.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Thomas Paine.

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
BBC News: Israel’s Katsav faces rape charge.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What encyclopedia are you most qualified to write?

I should have written about it yesterday.

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– THE ALMANAC SAYS –
Today is the feast of St. Timothy and St. Titus.
Tornado hit factory, Pottsville, Pa., 1843.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Argentina.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
I’ve talked a lot (and so have you) about who we would hope to be the Democratic nominee for President in 2008.

It’s an interesting coincidence this week that I wrote you some comments on postmodernism, in which the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle prominently features, and then we read (what most would consider an indisputably postmodern work) Reluctant Gravities, which involves the same phenomena.