since tuesday i've been either working, sleeping or watching baseball, so missed with great disinterest the latest "terrorists bad, america good" speech.

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met with hothouse last night... could put discrete there but it would up my operating expenses threefold. hmm. the kass and joe event scheduled for 10/21 has been cancelled-- they'll come up next year once discrete has a stable home. i have a date with a gallery in two weeks to discuss putting d series there. speaking of galleries, just when I thought all affordable space in wicker park had gone the way of the paulina tire salvage yard, i get a notice for a warming and opening for 23 spaces above miller lumber tonight.

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rereading everything by renee gladman this week, though i still have to get the activist. somehow silliman's phrase "curiously agnostic on plot" was the right prod.. i think i'll make that a requirement for fiction from now on. that and the insightfulness gladman's work reveals about the stuff under the stuff of how people relate to each other.

"In a world where a person's tastes revolve around what kind of sleep she gets, I could not find four people who cared."

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Just heard someone say, "Have you heard anything more about the elaboratus?"