“Seasick [Укачало]”: One day after the cruise ship Bulgaria sank near the Kazan port, we headed out on our Volga cruise—from Kazan to Nizhny Novgorod and back again. 128, including 59 children, died aboard the Bulgaria; on Tuesday we were watching reenactments on Russian TV.

With static, Hedgehog in the Fog, tank tops, and seagulls.