On Holiday

Everybody I Love You will not be loving you for the next eight or nine days. Celebrating New Year's, Russian Christmas, and whatever else comes along. Gonna be here, there, and everywhere. Should re-emerge with some stories, or at least a few pictures, including one of a modern wonder of the world.

In the meantime, if you're interested in books, you might visit Read.

If you also like feral cats, try Assbackwords.

Otherwise, I'll leave you with Felix Dzherzhinsky, pictured above, the man who established the CHEKA, the forerunner of the KGB. His likeness is still on a prominent corner of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs building.

And oh yeah, when I get back -- someone better not have turned off the gas.