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Latest NY hotel has odd "99 Luftbaloons" look to lobby, but room is nicely utilitarian. Going over notes with "Huckleberry Hound" on the TV.
about 5 hours ago
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Bright sunlight on subway platform at Howard Beach/JFK. Surrounding marsh lively with ducks, white gulls wheeling overhead.
about 9 hours ago
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News in "Shelf Awareness" that Baker & Taylor bought Blackwell NA -- puts entire academic library biz in one venture capital financed basket
about 13 hours ago
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Morning flight to NY; fortunately getting out before snow storm hits later today. Trip reading is Christopher Priest's INVERTED WORLD.
about 13 hours ago
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- Cornbread (for Chili gathering later today). Banana bread in background.
10:46 AM Dec 6th
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@ H will try to get the red headed with her camera. Amazing deep red coloration on his head -- even deeper than on a pileated.
8:44 AM Dec 6th
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Array of woodpeckers at suet: downy, hairy, red-bellied, and red-headed (not seen before). Squirrels, blue jays, nuthatches also contending.
8:33 AM Dec 6th
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Reading Stoker's LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, stew of Edwardian gentility & hysteria, notably in worm-possessed, mongoose-murdering Lady Arabella
7:10 AM Dec 6th
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Sky cleared overnight: woke briefly at 4am to see snow cover gleaming in moonglow and Orion bright above treeline. 7 am temp at 2 degrees.
5:54 AM Dec 6th
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Set out with H for 5 miler on snow-covered Yopps Rd. Streaks of blue sky vein overcast skies. V of geese, behind schedule, pass overhead.
1:46 PM Dec 5th
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Compared to large half-logs of past couple years, this season's split firewood seems like toothpicks -- fire needs replenishment constantly
10:20 AM Dec 5th
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A SINGLE MAN: struck how opening of George waking, emerging from animal and decaying flesh resembles one of Francis Bacon's late tryptichs.
7:57 AM Dec 5th
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Light but steady snow; flakes slowly, almost horizontally descending. Re-reading Isherwood's A SINGLE MAN (different book at age 52 than 24)
7:39 AM Dec 5th
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Discussion at Transmittal whether we should make MLA t-shirts of French biologist Jean Rostand's quote: "Theories pass. The frog remains"
1:44 PM Dec 3rd
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Transmittal meeting today ranged from oral history of English punk rock to new translation of Uexkull book on perceptual worlds of animals
1:42 PM Dec 3rd
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@ Reading it, first thing that popped into my head was that it must be Dan Rather having another "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" fit
11:32 AM Dec 3rd
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Local news that man in Winona MN walked into Target store with a hammer and -- chanting "hammer, hammer" -- started smashing televisions.
11:03 AM Dec 3rd
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RT @: A SINGLE MAN x2 in NYT: Laura M Holson w/ Tom Ford: / Sarah Lyall w/ Colin Firth: http://bit.l
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6:42 AM Dec 3rd
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RT @: Stylish, moody portrayal of gay middle-age--check out Ford's adaptation of Isherwood's "A Single Man":
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11:51 AM Dec 1st
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Bedeviled last night and into early morning by dreams centering on social media: twitter, facebook, Linked-in. And here I am . . .
6:57 AM Dec 1st
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- Name Doug Armato
- Location Minneapolis MN, Hayward WI
- Web http://noctambula...
- Bio Narcissistic, misanthropic, wry. Reading (lots), Long Drives, Baseball, Baking, Hiking/Running, Politics (progressive).
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