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Arlo. Arlo in his car. Driving to the baseball field on a rainy day.

What if heaven was just across the street

you could tell the temperature there—like weather

on TV that doesn't apply to you nor ever will

still you see the haze or perhaps its come together

to rejoin the world of substance

while here its 20 degrees sunny with a wind chill of –20

pearls have been crafted from rocks in similar conditions

then imagine what it could do to you

Why do my sleeves begin to resemble

abandoned houses? The read by deadline only approaches

The Painter of Battles, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. New York: Random House, 2008.

Driving north along the highway out of Church Rock, New Mexico, an observant motorist might notice dozens of striped markers dotting the small river valley to the east. Upon closer examination, one can spot the remnants of a mining operation, ringed by cautionary signs. According to a July 1979 report by the U.S. Department of Energy, a leeching pond burst at the United Nuclear mining operation, sending radioactive waste down river towards the city of Gallup.

"The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. November 08, 2008 - February 08, 2009.

A personal message from the artist to CQ:

Esas fotos fueron ellas de donde yo soy, de Babahoyo, en febrero del año pasado, en las inundaciones que pego con fuerza, todos los campos del Ecuador y de Latinoamérica... pero mas por las persona, me hizo ver que el hombre esta destinado a un solo destino, a su destrucción y extinción.... La tierra nos esta castigando y el hombre no se da cuenta... pronto no tendrá que comer y beber.

RECESSION
Let us start with the term most in vogue today: recession, which is presently defined as a decline in a nation’s GDP over two business quarters, and in the United States is officially declared by the National Bureau of Economic Research.