Month / October 2006
Occupied
First page: epigraph from Thelonious Monk.
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Next page: Seal.
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Title page: One. The Light Over the Ranges.
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“Now single up all lines!”
“Cheerly now…handsomely…very well! Prepare to cast her off!”
“Windy City, here we come!”
“Hurrah! Up we go!”
It was amid such lively exclamation that the hydrogen skyship Inconvenience, its gondola draped with patriotic bunting, carrying a five-lad crew belonging to that celebrated aeronautics club known as the Chums of Chance, ascended briskly into the morning, and soon caught the southerly wind.
1,081 pages to go.
If You Want Bush to Stump You, Be Sure Your First Name is Dave
There can only be room for Dave in Bush’s brain.
ZeFrank vs. Rocketboom
ZeFrank’s The Show takes on Rocketboom, the Rocketboom Boy responds, and Ze responds further.
In Tony Snow’s Universe, An Electrocution to the Nuts is “Playful Shocking”
Editor & Publisher: “He said Cheney is not a guy who ‘slips up,’ but a reporter wondered if, in fact, it was no slip up—that is, we do waterboard, and the vice president wanted to signal to voters that the Republicans are tougher than the Democrats. Asked to define ‘a dunk in the water,’ Snow replied: ‘A dunk in the water.’ A reporter later asked, if dunking does not mean waterboarding, does that mean there’s a new swimming pool at Guantanomo? That did not get a reply.”