{ yesterday's tweets. }

• 09:39 @powerof3 Btw, running around pantsless is the ultimate liberty #
• 09:39 @twincy Sports Night? Casey? What? #
• 09:39 @smurfberry Awesome; thanks for the rec! #
• 09:40 Using some free time to sort stuff out before cousins reappear. (They stayed at uncle's last night.) #
• 12:34 Am watching the documentary 'The Making of Me: Vanessa-Mae'. She's amazing, but this documentary is wonderful, too #
• 12:39 I wish I could find my Vanessa-Mae compilation disc #
• 14:19 @twincy tinyurl.com/6d3v7a #
• 14:40 @twincy Lol, I knew you'd like that bit #
• 16:14 Watching Olympic opening ceremony; filled with warmth. Wish G. Brown had decided to go. Feel kind of shamed. #
• 17:27 Finally saw the end of the latest Middleman episode. Aw, I loves it, I does. (Wendy & Tyler are pretty cute, bless 'em.) #
• 18:02 !!! MAD MEN #

LoudTwitter, yo.

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Bernie Mac passed away. He was only 50 years old. (I thought he was mid-40s.) I don't know what to say.

{ "Writing is a small ant which bites extinction. / Writing is a bloodless wound." }

Was going to make a proper post about happenings this week, but then I read that Mahmoud Darwish died today, too, and that scuppered that one.

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I can't find a good version of Darwish's State of Siege to post here, so I'll have to type it from my own copy. Wonderful verse; wonderful scope:

[to a reader] Don't trust the poem
She is the absentee daughter. She is neither an intuition
nor a surmise, but a sense of disaster