I don't know if there can even be such thing as a "Good Empire", but if you ask me, only an Evil Empire uses Uranium-tipped missiles & cluster bombs. (Or torture, BTW...)

Everybody knows there's a haiku underground, & some of us are into tanka, but did you know a bunch of poets have been exploring the Korean mini-form sijo? (Disliking the variable syllable count of the direct imitation, i have sometimes opted for a "neo-sijo" of 7-8-7-8-8-5 syllables.)

Then there's 20-Consonant Poetry, in which you have to use them all before using the same one a second time (although there is the "Mississippi rule"--two in a row allowed). More beautiful to me, its alternative "14-Vowel Poetry"...Thank you, William Gillespie.

One stop shopping for all your esoteric classic needs. Trithemius, anyone?

This smart, literate weblog is by someone i used to be in a language APA with, once upon a time.

Lotta ebooks here, if you have a zipdrive--& it's not Bartleby.

One of these days i'm going to finish my translations of Delmira Agustini, an unaccountably overlooked Uruguayan poetess of the early 20c--passionate, paradoxical, & way ahead of her time--, but in the meantime, here's a taste.

M.P.Shiel has his cult, of course, & there are still a few freaks like me who collect Cabell because people used to, but here's someone who's also a fan of Bulwer-Lytton... Just about any weird old writer you can think of can be found at Violet Books, as well as some excellent essays on them.

When you get tired of your old ecards, send an anime one, or a musical tanka.

If your mind isn't blown yet, see what Jack Chick has to say about Sept 11.