Thursday, July 1, 2004

In Three Notes

1. Back to the box office for the anti-Fahrenheit 9/11: America's Heart & Soul.  I hear it's a "must see" documentary about the glee and grandeur that is so vital to the Fourth of July.  So as not to battle the huge crowds packing into theaters for this film, we'll probably wait for it on DVD.  I'm only guessing, but I'll bet there's a scene where a cast of Iraqi sympathizers pry a screaming Michael Moore from the jaws of Goofy.  That'd be entertaining.  Nothing sends June doldrums packing like trumped up patriotism, Disneyfied.  Get the low down skinny on A H&S here and here.

2. Marie at Blue Ridge Blog shutter-snapped a vibrant moth (Hyalophora cecropia).  Her photos are always worth a look, especially for folks like me who might never make it to Boone, N.C. (or who, when visiting, wouldn't make time for the moths and country-scape).  Now, if I can just figure out how to talk Marie into letting me have that guy's photo for my for sidebar.  Here's the post and repost. It's gotta be the most splendid moth I've seen, earth wide. (Okay, I confess, I haven't really traveled the world peeping out moths, nor am I anything of a moth expert.  I'm a Stein-quoting sham...but I would like to immortalize H. Cecropia here at EWM.)

12...11...10 more days before I pack my office on my last day at the U. Turning in my keys on the 16th. Been there seven years, but we're loading up a truck and heading East in a few weeks, winding up to the last, chilliest loop in the rust belt.  We're all itchy with housing anxiety, since the (gorgeous, affordable, conveniently located, perfectly kept) house in KC hasn't sold yet.  I wonder if NASA's SLEUTH urban sprawl predictor can tell me when our house will sell. Stress aside, if it's the only thing I know, this: sometimes you have to roll with it.  We've got a rental on reserve in Syracuse, and, well, graduate school is bound to financial duress.  And I can always say I didn't see America's Heart & Soul because I didn't have the cash to spare (and because there's no way Disney's feel-good counter-documentary will comment on poor and disenfranchised folks anywhere near as cogently as Moore's work does).

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