Sunday

Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (November 25, 1867


[Johnny saw some dynamite
Couldn't understand it quite
But curiosity never pays
It rained Johnny for seven days.]

{Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (November 25, 1867)}

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Thursday

Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com

Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com:
 "All-TIME 100 Novels
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME."


THANKSGIVING PRAYER by WILLIAM BURROUGHS

WILLIAM BURROUGHS’ THANKSGIVING PRAYER



Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks for the KKK.
For nigger-killin’ lawmen, feelin’ their notches.
For decent church-goin’ women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.
Thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.
Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind the own business.
Thanks for a nation of finks.
Yes, thanks for all the memories—all right let’s see your arms!
You always were a headache and you always were a bore.
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.


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Saturday

Mad magazine turns 60; still crazy after all these years - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com

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mad_magazine_dec_1957 (Photo credit: Douglas Coulter)
The first issue of Mad. Art by Harvey Kurtzman.
The first issue of Mad. Art by Harvey Kurtzman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred E. Neuman (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)
Mad magazine turns 60; still crazy after all these years - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com:

 "Mad continues on despite the fact that there’s a lot more satire and cultural criticism out there today (called the Internet). Happy birthday, Alfred E. Neumann, we never forgot the life lesson you taught us: What? Me worry?"


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Sunday

DIANA KRALL LYRICS - Cry Me A River

DIANA KRALL LYRICS - Cry Me A River:

 "Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you"


Phantom Noise by Brian Turner


Phantom Noise
by Brian Turner

There is this ringing hum  this
bullet-borne language  ringing
shell-fall and static this  late-night
ringing of threadwork and carpet  ringing
hiss and steam  this wing-beat
of rotors and tanks  broken
bodies ringing in steel  humming these
voices of dust  these years ringing
rifles in Babylon  rifles in Sumer
ringing these children their gravestones
and candy  their limbs gone missing  their
static-borne television  their ringing
this eardrum  this rifled symphonic  this
ringing of midnight in gunpowder and oil this
brake pad gone useless  this muzzle-flash singing  this
threading of bullets in muscle and bone  this ringing
hum  this ringing hum  this
ringing

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Academy of American Poets
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Thursday

The Blue Moon Review

The Blue Moon Review: "THE NEWS FROM MARS


" . . . the diaspora of human civilization is bound to go on
and out, as it always has done in the process of setting new
frontiers."
--Gerald K. O'Neill"


Monday

Quotes About Politics (1460 quotes)

Quotes About Politics (1460 quotes):

 "“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!"



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Evey Hammond
Evey Hammond (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Evey Hammond: [voiceover] Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... 

But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like?

 We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them...

 but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it...

 ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love...

 And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man...

 A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget. 

~~from Alan Moore's V for Vendetta

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Athanasius, Underground | The Public Domain Review

Athanasius, Underground | The Public Domain Review:

 "ATHANASIUS, UNDERGROUND
With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits the 17th century polymath Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and “the master of hundred arts”. John Glassie looks at one of Kircher’s great masterworks Mundus Subterraneus and how it was inspired by a subterranean adventure Kircher himself made into the bowl of Vesuvius."


It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something : NPR

It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something : NPR:
 "the world's first rap song "






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Sunday

Written Inc.

Written Inc.:

 ""There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
Kurt Vonnegut "



101 Zen Stories

101 Zen Stories:

 101 ZEN Stories

http://www.101zenstories.com/

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Thursday

National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month: "What is NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59, November 30."