"The blog is dead, long live the blog!"

This is it, the official end of "Batholudens." It was a medium-length, pretentiously-named journey. A new, hopefully longer, and plainly-named journey is available at my new website, danbandstra.com.

That website even contains a blog of its own.

Even more excitingly, you can subscribe to that new blog at this rss feed.

Things are all a little stark over there right now. Relatively well-proportioned, but stark. However, as an added incentive to visit, there is a new song up.

Great Historical Writing

"As former President Richard Nixon pointed out in a magazine article not long ago, when a country has the blahs, it sometimes takes something exciting, like a war, to get everybody together again, hup-hupping along. And that is very true. Germany is an example. After World War I, everybody sat around cabarets getting drunk and perverted. When they got mad at Poland, they all felt better."

–Mike Royko, "Panama – the Ideal Enemy," May 7, 1976.

Faraway and Foreign

This book is highly recommended. By the way, I readily admit that blood and seawater have different saline concentrations. This fact was known to me even as I wrote the song. Here is a riddle: to what extent does this discrepancy affect the truth value of the song? The answer:

∆truth=±6.8

If you got a different (incorrect) answer then you may show your work for partial credit. Here is the song: