Nov8

I may have guessed it.

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as a fan of true crime, especially heists,

I always find it interesting to see where the criminals

have made errors in their planning or execution

as well as the how the security system

was able to to be breached or if it had flaws

it’s inevitable on both sides.

(It doesn’t appear that the security was at the highest level)

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“Heists on this scale are not unheard of, but the nature of this one is surprising because of the location, Remember, the Louvre was a palace. I mean you’re talking about a heist in the Hall of Kings.”

-Nikos Passas, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University.

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image credit: abc news

Nov7

hand out.

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walking through a mix of fall leaves

i see

golds, and browns, and yellows, and oranges, and reds

and…

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‘on the other hand, you have different fingers.’

-steven wright

Nov6

getaway car.

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you never know when you’ll need one

good to have it marked.

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‘but the good news, the crime rate is down. isn’t that amazing?

less banks are being robbed. well, sure.

A, there’s less banks. B, the banks don’t have any money left.

And C, nobody’s got gas money for the getaway car.

so, right there, crime is down!’

-jay leno

Nov5

dignity for all.

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yesterday was a voting day in some of the states 

wonderful to see such big turnouts

what we chose shows what we value

not just for ourselves

but also for the good of others.

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‘democracy is not just the right to vote; it is the right to live in dignity.’

-Naomi Klein, Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker

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image credit: ACLU of Michigan

Nov4

neighbor.

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love the library’s front window

‘love your neighbor’

‘you’re all neighbors.’

 

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‘being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.’

-gladys taber, american author

 

Nov3

‘the future is unwritten.’ joe strummer, the clash

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now that it’s november

I went on my annual quest

to buy a planning calendar

for the coming year

lo and behold

after going to three stores

not one of them

had a single 2026 calendar

each store seemed puzzled

that none had arrived yet

is this a bad sign

for the coming year?

for the future?

what’s up with 2026?

am i not supposed

to be planning anything

after December 31, 2025?

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‘tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.’

-og mandino, american author and inspirational speaker

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art credit: the michigan daily

Nov2

dream clocks.

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‘calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.’

-michael ende

(on daylight savings day)

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art credit: Dream Clocks, by Phil Greenwood, etching and aqua tint, Welsh artist, born 1943

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Nov1

black medicine water.

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coffee on the morning after halloween

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A list of words for coffee in ten different languages…

10. Welsh = coffi

9. French = café

8. Manx = caffee

7. Romanian = cafea

6. Dutch = koffie

5. German = kaffee

4. Swedish = kaffe

3. Malagasy = kafe

2. Icelandic = kaffi

1. Ojibwe = makade-mashkikiwaaboo (literally “black medicine water”)

(plus others found later and added in below)

Tamil: Kaapi

Hungarian- kávé

 Indonesian: Kopi

Spanish: Cafe

Korean: kuppi

Swedish slang for coffee: Java or Kip. 

Snutkaffe (cop-coffe): standard black coffee with absolutely no sugar or milk.

Preferably from a gas station.

 Onondaga word for coffee: either khófi or ohnegaijíh (black alcohol)

trump: covfefe

The phrase in Welsh according to the BBC for “I like coffee” is “dw’in hoffi coffi”

which does rhyme.

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I pretty much will drink any coffee. turkish prison coffee, gas station coffee, day old, microwaved, reheated, etc.  I especially love the Ojibwe translation (black medicine water), which I find to be quite accurate. anyone have any others?

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‘coffee is a language in itself.’

-jackie chan

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source credits: random and all over the place

Oct31

on halloween.

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‘when black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam

may luck be yours on halloween.’

-author unknown

 

 

 

 

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Oct30

unreliable narrator.

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i love telling stories about things that have happened and each time I tell them (just ask my family and friends), they may be just the slightest bit different, but they are as I remember them. perhaps i’m an unreliable narrator, as memoirists are known to be, and i’m okay with that-

‘I won’t tell you the story the way it happened, I’ll tell it to you the way I remember it.’

-Pam Houston

the actual definition of an unreliable narrator as written into literature or film, is the following:

 an unreliable narrator is a character who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised.They can be found in a wide range from children to mature characters.

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‘I think that at the end of the day I’m drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there’s a real rewarding sense if you feel like you’ve cracked it.

-damon lindelof