god save us, getting out of town, good things all around, nihilism, acedia, ataraxia, ariadne's thread, fela, fire whirls, autonomy, ostalgie, eunuchs, 8-9-3, 10's, 1's, the roman empire, large hadron collider, lioncash, last name bases, lithography, lithopedions, le parkour, le sacre du printemps, le mot juste, proscenium arches, persona non grata, pyongyang, gabriel's horn, north korea, cipa and familial dysautonomia, trigeminal neuralgia, tetraodontiformes, text messages, wind farms, wooden barrels, /b/, /ck/, cut and run, the ryugyong, khumbu, cajuns, jukeboxes, BPM 37093, being dirty, bossa nova, higgs boson, zeno's arrow, solitude, slavic languages, soviet ecology, sake, specifics, my office between 7 and 9 where i conduct my business, and the wooden bench by the tree in the left corner where i have done some thinking for better or worse.