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Monday December 02, 2024
Wiley Hall News Kiosk
“In Wiley Hall [on the University of Minnesota campus] the eletronic board that tells the time as well as the news has been stuck—the news part anyway—since June. It's comforting in a way. Nothing ever changes. The July 13 shuttle mission is still on schedule. The New York Times has still reported that Madonna and Sean Penn will marry in August. The NAACP is still meeting in Texas with its chairman saying it's up to black people to pull themselves up.
”For people who feel life moves too fast: Wiley Hall."
-- Journal entry, fall 1985.
This year, after sorting through my brother's and mother's stuff, I decided to try to minimize that task for whoever followed me, so I've going through old crap, including journals, and throwing away what I can. Most of the journal entries are embarrassing but I do like this nugget. We could use a Wiley Hall news kiosk these days—set to some time before 2015.