This Just In: Kafka Salutes the Arrival of the Modern Age

Germany has declared war on Russia—swimming in the afternoon.

—Franz Kafka, diary entry, August 2, 1914.

[[Reprinted in Modris Eckstein, Rites of Spring: The Great War
And the Birth of the Modern Age 55 (1989)]

Oops, Missed My Own Anniversary

I went back into the archives to figure out how soon I would reach my one-year anniversary in the blogosphere. Turns out I'm too late. It was this post, on July 25, 2006. Guess I'll have to save the paper hats and streamers until next July.