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– TIGERS – The Tigers won the series yesterday, but failed to sweep Baltimore, allowing the Twins to inch even closer to the division lead. They are now just one game behind. When the Tigers win just one more game they will come to 90 wins, a number they haven’t seen in nineteen years.

Last night I pulled an all-nighter drafting my first submission for workshop this semester. It’s a short story entitled Dash against Darkness. Let me know if anyone’s interested in checking it out. (Comment or email, natch.)

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I don’t remember.

I think I was lying on my back, spitting, burping, farting, and drooling on myself.

What were you up to in September, 1978?

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In a perfect work, I would have posted this yesterday on the actual feast, and in truth I haven’t posted much on religious content recently. This isn’t intentional; rather religion is one of the more difficult things to write about so when things get busy it is the most easily neglected.

HERE
http://www.socialistinternational.org/.

I know, I know, nobody likes a soapbox, or at least not a blatant one.

Anyway, after yesterday’s link which I put up as the voice of practicality and collaboration, I’m offering up this one in the spirit of clarity and best-case scenarios.

– SEPTEMBER – is Gay Square Dancing month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Agatha Christie

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Honduras.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Afej Saserfeiue Eidfdkjaleflejk?

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HERE
http://www.democrats.org/.

They aren’t what they were in the days of FDR and Kennedy, or even Carter and Clinton, but for 95% of the people viewing this blog, they’re our objective best hope.

This weekend I’m hoping to browse their website and get a somewhat better sense of what low time-commitment efforts I can make on their behalf in the next month-and-a-half.

– SEPTEMBER – is the month of Fall Hats.
– TODAY – is the Feast of the Exhaltation of the Holy Cross.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Dante Alleghieri.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
David Attenborough films the mating rituals of slugs.

“happy 9-11 day!”
– A friend.

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The second article was recommended to me by the same friend quoted above. It ought to be read to the end for the full effect.

The first article took a little digging; I originally saw it on a newspaper posted on the wall of an elevator in the building at which I work.

I have a general familiarity with E. E. Cummings, and so the playful weirdness of this collection did not take me off guard. What did surprise me (repeatedly and increasingly the more closely I read) was the persistent and hopeful, and ultimately ambiguous, play with the concept of unification and common experience.