Wild nights would be our luxury

Snow again tonight. The Empire State Building dissolving in a thick gray cloud: there and not-there.

The city under snow is Draco!New York: white, cold, impossibly silent, inexpressibly beautiful, and an emotional wreck. Ah, I love it.

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Office closed tomorrow, so I think I will take myself back downtown to see The Battle of Algiers again. And after that, I will go to B&N and buy the DVD.

I'm amazed that I remember so many of the individual scenes from years ago. ( Algiers--cut for spoilers )

A movie with an irreducible moral center and an unequalled sense of beauty, compassion, and horror. Maybe Goya, maybe Caravaggio, maybe Conrad can match it.

Makes me want to see Fires on the Plain again.

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The Horror! The Horror!

What are these rumors I hear that Nader is thinking of running again?

Tell him not to here.