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– DECEMBER – Is U.N. World Aids Awareness month.
– TODAY – is La Virgen De Guadalupe.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Gustave Flaubert and Frank Sinatra. And Buffy!

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times.

Well. What a depressing book to read over the Thanksgiving holiday!

Although, while it was depressing, it wasn’t precisely discouraging. This contradiction was one of the most fascinating aspects of this piece to me… that while the subject matter was not only somber, but entropically somber (ie.

– DECEMBER – is Universal Human Rights month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Erica!

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
The New York Times: Joy, and Violence, at Death of Pinochet.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is the Bluest Blue you ever Blued?

Isn’t that just about the creepiest religious picture ever? I found it on a Catholic Greeting Card site, and I’m assuming that it therefore have been originally created prior to the Great Schism of the 11th century… Catholic churches were not allowed to create icons of this sort for the following eight hundred years (and even today, their use is restricted to Catholic churches of the Eastern rites.)

– DECEMBER – is Gift Wrap month.
– TODAY – is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and Bodhi Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Horace, Mary Queen of Scots, Diego Rivera, James Thurber, Jim Morrison, and Kim Basinger.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Bolivia.

This was our second year living in Flushing Township. I remember this month pretty vividly, actually. It kicked off with the inaugural performance of the Flushing Junior High School Drama Club’s production of The Wizard of Oz, and I played the wizard.

– DECEMBER – is celebrating month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Willa Cather, Noam Chomsky, and Tom Waits.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
HornyManitee.com
Trust me. It both is and isn’t what you think.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What specialty porn enterprise could you get behind?

I lived in McKinley Park in Chicago and temped at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation as a file clerk with the Department of Neurosurgery. About one-third of my income went toward rent and another quarter toward the engagement ring I’d put on layaway for Jessica.

– DECEMBER – is Stress Free Family Holidays Month. (Okay. I don’t buy that for a moment.)
– TODAY – is St. Nicholas day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Ira Gershwin and Macy Gray.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
A lich.

New York Times: At Hearing, Gates Say U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq.
New York Times: Clinton’s Talks With Democrates May Signal Bid for President.
New York Times: Votes in Doubt, Bolton Resigns as Ambassador.
An Un-Flattering Picture of Paul Oakenfold Wearing Sunglasses.