What happened in 1968?

The Tet Offensive in Vietnam
The US went off the gold standard

April 2 - 2001: A space odyssey released
April 3 - Planet of the Apes released
April 4 - MLK shot

June 5 - RFK shot

July 17 – Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état.
July 18 – The semiconductor company Intel is founded.

Nov 22 - Beatles White Album released

endless sheep

Notepad has never crashed on me.

endless sheep like heroin addicts walking without looking
reading from their tiny screens as they walk
why is it my responsibility to watch out for them and their unpredictability?
zombies.

then the sets get out and linger like sheep in the foyers. still.
try to walk around them - they are thick. careful if they twist and turn: their massive camel backs block and sway

as i walk up the stairs, a thin attractive girl bites her nails nervously as she walks along the corridor below me. must be nerves. must be withdrawal from forgetting her phone.

these are the best candidates.

Say what you want to say

Say what you want to say. If you say it here within this window, you are ok. But, to be safe, put quotes, you know “quotes” around it and assign it to a character. You’ll be fine. He raised his head up nodding slowly, pensively. The muted drone on the rooftop above them told that outside the cold December rain was picking up.

First Refreshmas of 2013

Och! Haggis at Robbie Burns Supper 2013

It's a triple whammy! Are you sitting down? Happy new year, by the way. Did you notice the triple?
Today...January 25th....

• Refreshmas - of course
• Payday - in Japan (that's what Refreshmas is all about) but for me in Canada, too, nice coincidence

and

• Friday - nice.

and

• A very happy birthday to Robbie Burns - born this refreshmas January 25, 1759 (254 years ago)

Here it was a nice day. Sunny for a change. It's tantamount to the alignment of the planets, or something...
Memorable. Hope it's a good one for you. Enjoy your Refreshmas as you see fit. Perhaps a wee dram fer Rabbie Burns?

Random Phrases No. 4

practicing hair
weird baggage
considerate implication
wondrous sky
disturbed inability
aggressive allocation
recursive anarchy

reversed longest stumble
unintuitive rule
varietal waiting
gated unimportance
unproblematic emergency
unpersuasive citizen
sinless city

upset nonmotorist
ideal predepreciation
minimal djiboutian
proposed vatican
significant assyrian
ideal rama
national superlative

Company names seen in Shanghai

Wang Steak

Monkey King Paint

Greenheck

Evergrowing Bank

Alubang

Now

Now come on!