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This was inevitable, of course. ::chuckle:: [ day in progress... ]
Now reading…Waxing On
It's time for another trip to the dark and dangerous world that is Weird Tales, the essential pulp magazine, edited, from 1940 to 1954, by Dorothy McIlwraith. Today, the September 1943 issue. We've looked into this issue already to...
I fancied some non-fiction after all the fiction I’ve been reading of late, and this book piqued my interest. Written in 1946 by a british intelligence officer tasked with finding out from captured germans that were present in the...
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 - 14:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project This is the final item from the collection Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’. Once again, it's just a place-holder rather than a full summary,...
Last day of the kids' summer badminton camp. A fun, tiring few days. Back to work tomorrow!29 words · 1 image
This is specifically in reference to handwriting like it's 1895 where I am learning a more formal Victorian script. But it applies to any kind of learning. Lesson the first: I can be - am often - a lazy bastard. Lazy is also a fun word...
I talked yesterday briefly about how I love clouds, adore them really. There’s something dreamlike and peaceful, well, at the best of times. There’s also another element I was born to: water. I’m a Pisces and natural born water baby....
They say writing can be a good outlet for grief, but feelings might get complicated when the person you’re grieving was supposed to co-author the book you’re writing. Despite author Griffin Barber’s deep, personal loss of his mentor and...
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We're only on the 5th day of Blaugust and I'm already struggling to think of something to write about. I went through the list of prompts and nothing is standing out there either. I think I'll just do a little free-writing...
Yes, the Vanness tables will have the Kaweco DIY Machine once again! This coming weekend, we’ll be attending the 2026 D.C. Pen Show, one of the largest and longest-running pen shows in the world. In addition to the opportunity to shop...
One of the most fun book-promo events I’ve ever been a part of was leading a TAoN-style tour of the Dallas Museum of Art. I wrote about that here, but the relevant bit is that my “tour,” which encouraged museum-goers to pay attention to...
As you fall asleep tonight, keep falling, plummeting into the star-foamed darkness of your heart. Play in the wave-nature of silence, rising up and sliding down the pearl moonbeam of this breath. Drifting in the ocean of no thought, fill...
I’ve shared the stories behind the Fiddler Web Debugger a fair bit over the years, in the Fiddler Book, in a talk at the CodeMash conference in 2015, and on this blog. It features prominently in my to-be-completed (some day?) memoir, and...