Some February

By Lee Barry

February is now defined by the events of February 24, 2022, the invasion of Ukraine, 2 days after the numerological event, 2/2/22.

In February 1998, the Clinton sex scandal was always above the fold. It seemed almost poetic that the film Wag the Dog was contemporaneously released. A conflict between Iraq and Israel was heating up, and there was fear that Saddam would use WMD on Israeli cities if provoked by the US. Clinton's order of surprise attacks on Afghanistan and Sudan was suspected of diverting attention away from the Lewinsky scandal.

Jesse Ventura arrived on the scene as a new kind of grass-roots politician in February 1999.

Climate change, which was called "global warming" in the 90s, started to become more evident to me or could be that I was in the habit of keeping a diary and started to notice it more. It seemed both amazing and unnerving that there were long stretches of warm and sunny days in January and February in the late 90s. Conversely, there were years when it was unseasonably cold for long periods. This became known as the Polar Vortex which occurred in February 2019, as well as a sizable blizzard by Chicago standards in February 2011.

The Beatles were in the studio recording tracks for Rubber Soul in February 1965, while Brian Eno was in Cairo, Egypt in 1995. The New York Philharmonic was doing concerts in North Korea in February 2008.

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InSum is a personal diary "remixed" with the diaries of others (including fictional characters in the past and future) so as to highlight interesting chronological juxtapositions. It is the book version of the non-linear film which skips around in time in almost a random fashion, but is logical in some ways: For example, something happening in February 1964 would echo into February 1968, or even February 2048, or February 1868.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DZP5PP2W
• ISBN13: 9798312668643
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"