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Facebook!!! How it has changed over the years. I remember the time when it was a space to connect with friends and family, get their updates and more. It was a bit performative, for sure, but it still felt like a space worth visiting once in a while, to check in. All that is long […]
I am incredibly behind on so many things because the book tour took all of my attention (in a good way – more about this later) so this is just a little post to catch up on a few things. First, I just heard that HOW TO BE OKAY WHEN NOTHING IS OKAY is stillContinue reading "May catch-up"
Plus, my agent pays the bills, personal software goes native, and the value of being unemployed.
I walked around Red Hook, Brooklyn, with a friend on the afternoon of May 3, 2026. Our walk took us to Red Hook’s Valentino Pier, which has what may be Brooklyn’s best view of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. My friend, who is known in these pages for having rescued a stuffed bird in Williamsburg in the summer of 2025, noticed something peculiar to the northwest of the Statue of Liberty, way off in the distance in New Jersey: An ominous cloud of black smoke. See...
Photo Site Update The photo site continues to be a work-in-progress. Which is to say, I continue to work on it and am making progress.
Title Scream is a site that collects title screen graphics from 8 and 16-bit games. I miss the care that designers put into the UI of games back in the day.
Star Trek, with mountains.
The closest I got to a life philosophy
So we must define more accurately what it is to hope. In ordinary speech we often call something hope that is not hope at all but a wish, a longing, a longing expectation now of one thing, now of another, … Continue reading →
My second brief recap of 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing season three, in which I focus on the new trend of Molly Yeh not knowing what she's cooking.
On 17 April 2026, a new bridge was opened in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Unfortunately, it remained open for just over a week. The bridge had to be closed again after it turned out to vibrate too much. As a precaution, the damping …
VOL 6, NO 2 ★ Pod Loser. / Pennington Pop Explosion, a mixtape. (Podcast feed.) Featuring: Tegan & Sara, The Hardship Post, Odds, Eric’s Trip, The Flashing Lights, Sloan, Doughboys, Joel Plaskett, Night Committee, Sam Roberts, SNFU, Rheostatics, The Pursuit of Happiness, Julie Doiron, Headstones, and The New Pronographers. Cassette via TapeDeck.org. ✖
Pre-dinner drinks at Bar Herbs (the popcorn almost ruined our dinner!). Pre-drinks shop at Red Eye Records. Go for the escargo! So delicious! Gina was invited to the re-opening of Ananas, a French brasserie at The Rocks which is in … Continue reading →
Woah. My ship didn't explode. Twice. I've been roaming a bit of lowsec again in my hookbill. I managed to reach 6 killmarks today! So that's 6 kills in this one ship, which of 4 were today. Holy crap, my ships never stay running this long. I am flying back to base as I'm writing this, so I'm expecting it to blow up while writing, lol. Anyway, I had two really close calls. One of them was with a Federation Navy Comet, that was really tough, because of the drones and it had...
It’s tulip time in Holland Michigan
So, I rewatched I SOLITI IGNOTI/BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET, which I originally wrote about here. But didn’t have time to watch the second film in my planned double-feature, THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, because we’re writing, recording and editing our voiceover at the same time as editing the piece itself — the new Laurel & […]
The story of Robert Johnson and his “deal with the devil” to obtain his legendary guitar skills still peaks people’s interest – from Keith Richards to Bob Dylan to the movie Sinners as the most recent example. So when a newly discovered recording of his “Cross Road Blues” surfaces, you need to give it a […]
Back in 2020 I posted about the etymology of pedant; now I offer a very interesting review by Clare Bucknell (NYRB, May 14, 2026; archived) of On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S. Q. Visser. (You can see the book discussed at this Overthink YouTube video, hosted by Ellie Anderson and […]
"Like a lot of writers, I’m distractable. Scare quotes “Attention Deficit.” Nothing is harder sometimes than just sitting down and writing the thing I am so desperately excited to write—especially when the world gets chaotic and nasty outside. Music is a tool I use to block out the metaphorical and literal noise."