It's The Day To Be Pissed Off

* Some numbfuck is painting images of Howard Hughes' head all over Ann Arbor. That's fine, except I'd sincerely appreciate it if they didn't paint them OVER existing murals and works for public art. What are they, nine years old?

* I don't care to learn more about the hometown of any musical act. I don't care about Naponee, Ontario, Burleson, TX, or Raleigh, NC, or anywhere else that is deemed interesting or important solely because some "star" grew up there.

* Bruce Springsteen is so annoying. No, I mean, his rabid fans are annoying, as are those who elevate him to the status of some sort of common-man's jongleur. Related to above, I don't care about Asbury Park, NJ.

* It's cloudy again today.

* The Food Stamp thread in GD is going to send me right over the edge. It's interesting how many people insist that hunger prevention ought to be funded privately rather than from their precious, precious tax dollars. Given the lack of empathy exhibited by some in that thread, looks like the poor would be UTTERLY FUCKED if they had to rely on the voluntary kindness of others for help. I just called somebody a "prying little snit" and probably earned myself a moderator's warning.

* The lollipops in the office candy jar are unsatisfying.

* I'd like an extra $3000 in income a month. Damnit.

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Fact for the day: Childcare for Kirk is going to start costing $900 a month.

Oh wait, that's not the fact for the day. It's a fact, all right, but it's not the fact for the day.

Fact: Robert Henri, of Ashcan School fame and The Eight fame and The New York Realists fame, was from Nebraska. His real name was Robert Henry Cozad. He was born in Ohio but his family moved to NE and his father, a riverboat gambler, founded a town (Cozad, Nebraska, about 30 miles from my hometown) when Robert was about 8. So why the name change? They fled Nebraska after a land dispute ended in a man's death and a possible murder charge for Henri's dad; everyone in the family took different names so they would avoid identification. Robert used his middle name as his last name and pretended to be his father's foster son. I don't know why or when the Henry became Henri. I suppose I should ask my Dad because I'd bet he'd know.