TRUTH WILL OUT, AS USUAL: As you may have guessed from all the linking I did today, I haven't a damn thing to write about. Every so often I run into these dry patches where nothing seems to work, all the ideas I had for posts fail to take shape and ideas I thought would gel remain an amorphous blob uncongenial to the sight and unpleasant to the taste buds. At times like this, one can only put the head down and face into the wind and hope that something pops into your head soon. Until then, read some Gogol, rent Duck Soup on VHS or DVD, or take a nap. It'll make the time pass more quickly.