Actually, I didn’t meant to fool anyone, but I had Personal Crises going on last Wednesday which prevented me from reading with Mac “The Man” Wellman and others. I have apologized profusely to the Turnstyle coordinator and hope to still be allowed into the CUNY Graduate Center on occasion.

Reasons I highly respect the CUNY GC:

• Survived a mind-blowing Ph.D. history class there on the rise of Arab nationalism after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Now all I read are history books.
• Bought some wonderful outdated travel guides to the Middle East at a GC Library booksale.
• Saw Francisco Goldman and Junot Diaz interview each other in the GC theater. Hilarious, inspiring, death-defying, etc. Ran out and read all their books.
• Spartan website.
• Tried McDonald’s coffee once near the GC; could not endure said coffee; pondered long/hard about how coffee could possibly taste that much like burning tire. Found out the GC has pretty decent coffee.

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