What Will Survive Us Has Already Begun

Today - soon - I walk from my house on Saul to Franklin to Beach to across Rockville Pike to Grosvenor to Old Georgetown to (Flipping Pizza for as decent a slice as Moco can) to Democracy (for cheap irony) to Fernwood to Westlake Terrace behind Montgomery Mall to Motor City Drive to pick up the rental car Earthgirl and me drive to Michigan tomorrow to visit Planet and Air through Sunday, there may be posts from the breakfast lounge of the Comfort Inn per Egoslavian tradition on trips to visit Planet. Today is also Ian Mackaye's 57th birthday.

• Update: 3.25 miles, 50 minutes by foot from house to Montgomery Mall
• Plans are we're gonna Chicago Friday and Saturday weather-permitting, so photos too.
• Update! one immediate difference between Manhattan and Chicago - we couldn't get a hotel room Downtown, and I mean downtown Downtown, for a hundred bucks a night in Manhattan but we did for Friday in Chicago
• Not an accident. 
• Rebump: all in the family debt, or, it's not an accident.
• Confronting neerapodestas.
• Crackers be crackers, but Democrats are the enemy.
• VAR DIV MISC.
• Sparks, why the hell isn't more Sparks played here? 
• Poetry, politics, internet. 
• Dynamic positioning. 
• The Dam. 
• The Appalachian Trail and Benton Mackaye. (h/t Hamster)
• O, click the Fugazi tag below.

ADVICE FROM ROCK CREEK PARK

Stephanie Burt

What will survive us

has already begun

Oak galls

Two termites’ curious

self-perpetuating bodies

Letting the light through the gaps

They lay out their allegiances

under the roots

of an overturned tree

Almost always better

to build than to wreck

You can build in a wreck

Under the roots

of an overturned tree

Consider the martin that hefts

herself over traffic cones

Consider her shadow

misaligned

over parking-lot cement

Saran Wrap scrap in her beak

Nothing lasts

forever not even

the future we want

The President has never

owned the rain