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).