Fresh things a-comin’ in this space. Bold new directions. The striking out into new territories. The forging in the smithies of various souls the uncreated conscience of something or other.

Yes, the sinus pressure on my frontal lobe and the prematurely ripe summer heat have, perhaps, combined to derange my otherwise thoroughly ranged brainpan, but nevertheless I insist there will be change, modification, protean waves of alterity, magnificent and unpredictable REVOLUTION in this heretofore snoozy corner of Blogdonia.

By which I mean: I’m going to be posting more often, and I’m thinking of a redesign.

In the meantime, here’s a bunch of great stuff that’s elsewhere.*

Greatest U.S. President revealed as awful young poet (via a bunch of places)

Greatly reassuring words promise that U.S. President would never do awful things, even if it turns out they’re legal for him to do

Great concept, awful choices: Great “Song Parts” (via MeFi)

Great idea with interesting consequences

Great deal of comeuppance delivered which raises question of why we find the awful interesting (via KF)

Just plain great travel writing over at Rory’s place

*That’s a pretty lame excuse for a bold new direction, I know. But since I haven’t even been bothering to do THAT for you of late, surely you can appreciate even this miniscule effort to make your visit worth it.