Yesterday made landfall in the EE.UU. and was welcomed back by a big sign at Boston Logan customs reading “THIS AREA IS UNDER SURVEILLANCE.” (Welcome home, citizen.) Today: stayed in New Jersey, lunch in Manhattan, dinner and family visit in Baltimore. Tomorrow, home in Auburn.

Solidarity / Mutual Aid request: Brian Nicholson (B-psycho), a left-libertarian who blogs at psychopolitik.com, just tweeted: “I just realized that I have no chance in hell of paying my August rent. Estimate after taxes for final check this month about 190. All but 60 of it is out the door for stuff due before the 1st. And I can’t wait until next check cuz I’m paid biweekly. I’d be evicted by then.” Can anyone help him out? He has a donate button on his website: http://www.psychopolitik.com

To-day @ radgeek.com: Us, the Unnoticed http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/07/11/us-the-unnoticed/

is working through the Book of Disquiet, text by text, mostly during sit-down breaks on morning walks. Which is beautiful but … Thematically repetitive. When the introspective angst and inwardness gets too suffocating, I switch over to Geoffrey of Monmouth.