Take the wheel and drive by

I would strongly prefer to have started the year without respiratory crud. I travel tomorrow nonetheless. Have some things from the internet.

1. I love the idea of a ship's biscuit love token.

2. I had never heard the story of Lee Sallows and the self-enumerating pangram.

3. This poem sticks with me: Martín Espada, "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913."

4. Worth reading in full, especially the parentheses: Matthew Cheney, "The Narrative of Dead Narrative."

5. I can't remember which recent news item provoked me to leave myself the note "FUCK THE GHOST OF JOSEPH BREEN AND ALL HIS NECROMANCERS," but I'm sure it's still relevant.

I understand the concept of statistical outliers, but I still have a very hard time believing in the Boomer-Millennial culture wars when my father calls me up to discuss in detail the fourth-season finale of Lucifer (2016–).