Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way they really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel […]
I’m trying to get back into writing things, but no promises that I’ll manage to post regularly in 2026. Movies If you want my top 20 of 2025 with no commentary, it’s here on Letterboxd. Here’s a breakdown of my top ten: Books Here’s a summary of my year in books from Storygraph: Not ranking […]
One of the things I miss most from bookselling is the joy of sharing a book that you love with other people. I’m going to try to start writing occasional reviews here to share books I’ve truly enjoyed. I just finished Mona Awad’s Rouge, and here’s the review I wrote for Goodreads: We all know […]
2022 was quite the year. Here’s a round-up of how it was for me. I’m still building mechanical keyboards I’ve now built 5 of them (and a numpad), here are some things I learned over time: Will that stop me from building more? Probably not, but I’d prefer to just build them for friends because […]
Apparently I read 68 books in 2022 (that’s a StoryGraph link because the stats are fun, my Goodreads list is here.) I started the year reading The Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, and am ending it reading Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (I’m only halfway through it as I type, so it’ll be the […]
Good thing I quoted from that Twitter policy yesterday, because it’s already been rolled back. And of course, Musk didn’t take the internet yelling at him at all well, so he also created a poll asking whether he should step down as CEO of Twitter. He may have thought his position was safe because so […]
Oh, what thin skin you have, Mr. Billionaire! While Elon Musk attended the World Cup final in Qatar (because he cares not a whit about human rights or the amount of carbon debt his flights incur), Twitter announced some interesting new changes to their policies. Here’s a link to their brand spanking new Promotion of […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Mastodon the past few months, and I’m pretty much done with Twitter (as I type, Semiphemeral is working away on deleting my tweets). Even if a certain billionaire hadn’t made the place into even more of an alt-right cesspit, I’d already started realizing how looking at Tweetdeck […]
2022 is shaping up to be a grimdark dysphoric hellscape for the ages. So far this year we’ve had: I don’t know if I’m feeling this way because it’s a cold and dark November afternoon, but this year has been a lot. I’m sitting here reminding myself that when curious Pandora loosed all the ills […]
During the pandemic, watching David Lynch’s weather report (and Today’s Number) became part of my daily ritual. Every weekend, he wishes all his viewers well on their weekend projects. I seldom have a weekend project, unless you count playing video games, curling up with a book, or taking a daily nap as projects. Leaving fixing […]
