Rabo Karabekian

• I just finished the novel Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut; profoundly good. I really enjoyed it. I read the last 186 pages of it tonight, in fact.

• The new MCA banner at the east entrance on Poplar Ave. features a youngish man (whom I have come to find out is named Amel). He looks exactly like a friend of mine who killed himself when I was fourteen. I don't take that entrance too much anymore.

• I leave the balcony door unlocked so that Adam can come in throughout the day. I think it's kind of symbolic. Maybe I'm waiting for not only him, but someone else as well. Maybe I should stop reading Kurt Vonnegut books.

• To misquote Sam Cooke, "It's Friday night, and I ain't got nobody."

• And to correctly quote Charles Darwin, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."