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– AUGUST – is Cataract Awareness month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Antonio Banderas for real (thanks for nothing, Wikipedia).

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
.:: beedogs ::.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Wow, not one QotD response in two days.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 6, Sentence 1:

Second, the versions of modernism reconstructed after World War II in both painting and literature were as tepid as surrealism was radical.

During the month of Lumas (June 23 – July 22), I began an exploration of Hip Hop. I had three goals:

#1. To listen to a broad spectrum Old School Hip Hop (pre-1985).
#2. To listen to a broad spectrum from the Golden Age (1985-1993).

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– AUGUST – Is the month of Vision & Learning.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Whitney Houston and Grandma Coyne.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Moosebeck Hideaway: The Catskill foothills, where I wish I was right now.

Blue Skies Falling has finally reached 1,000 posts on the long walk from February, 2004!

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Hey! Look what I found!

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 5, Sentence 7:

And modernism’s insistence on refined, concentrated intelligence seems better suited for repressing poetic logic than for making it a social force.

– AUGUST – is National Inventors’ Month.
– TONIGHT – is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors’ Porch Night.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Antonio Banderas, and Amber, and the Wolf Baron.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.”

Andy Heller recently wrote a galvinizing (literally; he supposedly got a ton of letters in response) column about Flint’s recent spate of drive-bys here.

Here is my letter to him, and single qualification:

Hey,

Somehow, on a first pass, I missed your recent column about the Grand Blanc drive-bys.

I’ve been tagged by Sumara.

1. One book that changed my life:
Les Misèrables, by Victor Hugo. It moved me; it also informed me for the first time that a novel can strive to contain and encompass (and be encompassed by) everything in the world.

– WEATHER –
Well, last week we officially melted. It was too hot for me to get much done during the early part of the week, and anyway, I was too preoccupied later on with Jess’ and my birthday and our 1 year anniversary (yesterday) to pay much attention to projects.