(via alumnus dot caltech dot edu)

"Rakia"

Presently, i will think of it.
Chapters ago, a punctuation mark
not where today we'd put it
to the fulsome barking of dogs.
To become
part of the wreckage
and part of what walks away:
the undisgruntled country
with free unlimited movie rentals...

Let the healing begin.

"Like fever also is the great Nostalgia." --The Book of Mirdad


"The American author of a study of eighteenth-century Russian literature records the response of one colleague to the prospect: 'Why, is there any?' " --Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (Hughes)


Lego animation music video: the brave new frontier. (via Metafilter)


Two recent books about the Number Zero. (Then there's that Roches song--"Big Nothin.")