(Disclaimer: I have been drinking. I also just sat through a two hour performance of "The Nutcracker", in which I sat in a tiny, tiny seat -- and I am a tall, tall ______)

A. This dude talks about art and politics and neo-liberalism. I follow 75% of it, get depressed, and write a poem about rodents.

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/181

TEotW. This poem by Carl Dennis, a poet whom I always think is too commercialized, but then he speaks to me as I sit in a dermatology office (or a mid-coast library five years ago, hungry and alone) and I want to nod to him across a room.

http://www.bookofjoe.com/2010/07/a-maxim-by-carl-dennis.html

3. In reference to A., I read the wikipedia page on Neoliberalism. Is it okay to read wikipedia yet to refresh your memory on something? Was it never not okay?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Quatro. I read this article on banning menthol cigrattes, which is the preferred cigarette of African Americans. (disclaimer, I want to bang the hell out of Alicia Keys, man).

http://www.theroot.com/views/menthol-madness-why-ban-blacks-preferred-cigarette

Five. I read about this economic thesis I've never heard about, and will forget within approxinmately... hey, what was I talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer%E2%80%93Prebisch_thesis


In closing, Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. I love you all because you're all readers, and readers really do give me hope for the world. Link me something interesting. Props if it's a video (sorry that I'm not very "multi-media". (<--- in eight years, why haven't we been able to fix this smiley formatting issue?) Double props if it makes me depressed and I write an eight line poem about it before going to bed.

P.S. -- I'll take you home.