The Depths Must Not Be Illumined...

Some things should be kept in the dark. Our mountain road trek from Zagreb to Split disturbed the Hell out of all of us... Croatia's topography is astonishing, but her gutted homes, bullet-riddled churches, defaced monuments, and eviscerated villages don't seem to share equal space on travel brochures. It's impossible for outsiders to immediately fathom the underlying disquiets that exacerbated the Rat u Hrvatskoj (the Croatian War), and difficult to ascertain the foul redoubt where those same malignancies have received sanctuary. Given the hundred-odd swastikas we've seen tagged into the concrete facade of the slowly deteriorating office building that rests atop and adjacent to Klub Kocka, one can only surmise that such horrors are, as ever, posited deep from within...