A very, very, very bad day.
Sunny, but too cool. Our high was only 61˚F. It's 60˚F now. The leaves are falling.
Please have a look at
our eBay. There are copies of Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea and Dear Sweet Filthy World (the latter, possibly my most underrated collection).
I have some stuff I posted to Twitter:
Can I do that? Preemptively cancel myself? Because, at this point, it seems the least painful course.
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Also, when did people, journalists, the Associated Press, whoever, forget that headlines are capitalized throughout? Is that threatening or something?
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"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
~ Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself, 51"
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See, books, all writings, are like Obi-Wan Kenobi. You can strike them down, but when you do they become more powerful, maybe more powerful than you can possibly imagine. (For Margaret Atwood)
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The afternoon's documentary was the second half of the four-hour William Randolph Hearst documentary.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
5:10 p.m.