Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

What's notable about December 6 (besides my B&N talk)?

Today is National Day of Counter-Recruitment

http://www.campusantiwar.net

Don’t support the troops...inform them.

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December 6, 1865: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified.

December 6, 1933: A federal judge rules that Ulysses by James Joyce is not obscene.

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Frantz Fanon sez:
“In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

“Death is always close by and what’s important is not to know if you can avoid it, but to know that you have done the most possible to realize your ideas.”
(Fanon died 44 years ago today.)

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December 6, 2005: After five books in five years, I will be speaking at Barnes & Noble for the first time tonight. So, am I making progress...or selling out? (Don’t you have to actually make money to sell out?) Anyway, I’ll be discussing my new book, 50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed To Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism...so let’s hope the snowy weather doesn’t scare anyone off.

Barnes & Noble, Astor Place
4 Astor Place
7:00 pm
FREE

Just a quick train ride away...