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– NOVEMBER – is Vegans month.
– TODAY – is World Hello Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Voltaire and Bjork.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“I am a grateful… grapefruit.”
– Bjork.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
I’ve been surprised at least once recently.

At this time of year the lectionary is filled with all sorts of apocalyptic stuff. It really is a genius bit of scheduling, since the material is scattered throughout both testaments. You can find it in all four gospels, but especially John, the letters of John and Thessalonians (though most of them have it somewhere), Revelations, of course.

– NOVEMBER – is Peanut Butter lovers month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Edwin Hubble and Bobby Kennedy. But most important, my dear friend Lyn!

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
The New York Times: Schools Slow in Closing Gaps Between Races.

I have decided to take the death of Bo Schembechler more personally than that of Milton Friedman. When complex, difficult, and admirable people die, it just sort of stops you.

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I was in the middle of my first quarter at the University of Chicago. Still a little overwhelmed and confused by everything that had accumulated, quite suddenly, I didn’t leave Hyde Park at all between the end of Orientation and Thanksgiving break.

I don’t want this to be conflated with what I think is good and bad in poetry.
There is, however, substantial overlap, so anything that I think generally good in poetry, as well as being pleasurable to me personally, I will put in italics.

– NOVEMBER – is lifewriting month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Martin Scorsese and Danny DeVito.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Ecuador.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Danny DeVito is best in _______.

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Milton Friedman has died.

The article as posted by The University of Chicago.

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Clearly everything’s up in the air today. I spent two hours today trying to pay four bills, only one of which was successfully brought to completion.

So insteado posting one of my usual insightful persistant political diatribes, I’m going to link to another.

This is my favorite piece of writing that we’ve encountered in class so far. I’m going to start sounding like a skipping record, because my second favorite piece was The Master Letters, and while I wouldn’t call Pessoa out for #3, I think I wrote of him more effusively than I intended.