Janice Soprano: "Did you know there's a Zuni saying, 'Of twenty things a child does, pay no attention to nineteen'?" Tony Soprano: "Did you know there's an Italian saying, 'Fuck up once and you lose two teeth'?"
Yesterday was Reading Out Loud, and the topic was opinion pieces, with the title "Sez you!" I'd moved the location from the Victory Cafe to the Ryerson Hub next to Jorgenson Hall. It seems to be a good location, with lots of seats and nobody else around. One person couldn't find the place, but they should figure it out before long.
Seven people came. A few of them read their poems, and Beatriz read a Spanish poem she'd written, along with an English translation. I read a Christopher Hitchens article from The Nation about Bill Clinton executing brain-damaged Ricky Ray Rector on the eve of the 1992 New Hampshire primary; and a review from Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn column of the British version of the reality TV show (more like unreality!) Temptation Island. A couple of items I brought but let other people read were Roger Ebert's review of Her Alibi (the one with a romantic denouement at Tom Selleck's country house which had been blown up half an hour earlier!), and Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant."
Looks like Bernie Sanders is taking the lead in resisting Trump. Someone has to!
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