Wildlife: All of the Osprey nests along the north shore of Flathead Lake are empty -- the migration has officially started. Florida's gonna be rough pickin's this year.

Weather: Somebody tagged the whole sky with gray spray-paint, and we're getting a little rain.

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Media Watch: I admit, with some guilty feelings, to switching between CNN and the Weather Channel during Hurricane Frances' landfall for many hours on Friday night. The unfolding of the destruction was facinating.
Sunday's CSPAN started out alright with Art Spiegelman on In Depth at the Strand bookstore in New York, but after an hour or so, for some reason, it turned into some other kind of show -- they had people come up and argue with one another -- often stupidly, I must add.
Blowhard Nat Hentoff was on for a few minutes too. He was only about 30% as bad as usual. I wish he'd stick to the subject of music, although his memories of Strand bookstore and NYC's Greenwich Village over 40-plus years were cool.
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I'm also reading Oriana Fallaci's interviews with powerful people, and her wonderful essays about each event. (Intervista con la Storia -- Rizzoli, 1974, published as Interview with History translated by John Shepley -- Liveright, 1976)
You don't have to agree with her, but she's the most emotionally REAL author of these times. Oriana Fallaci: journalist, interviewer and author