I really love Sophie’s newsletter You Are Doing A Good Enough Job, which was both the inspiration for Kaijuville and its original launch vehicle. I love Erin’s newsletter The Old Shoebox; I aspire to the kind of enthusiasm and joy she brings to her deep dives there. I read every issue of Escape The Algorithm, and...

Today’s interview is the first I have yet conducted with a professional blogger. I’m not going to assume anything about what you picture when I say that! But I hope that from now on, when you imagine someone who has made a career and vocation of writing for the web, your mind leaps to Janice, creator of The Vivienne...

First: hi, this is the official Kaijuville entree into RSS Club. Email subscribers to this site got a second ping last week, because somehow while proofing my previous entry I managed to delete the last image and had to send a postscript. So not a very big bonus, but if you’re reading this via syndication, it seems...

I drew the cartoon above from a photograph that turned twenty years old last month. That’s Erika on the left, and next to Erika is Stephen’s bride Erin, and then I’m on the right, and next to me is Stephen himself, surprising me with a smooch the morning after his wedding. Stephen and I first met on a forum, five...

Mages & Modems is a memoir by writer-podcaster-developer vga256, and one I enjoyed very much. As soon as I began reading it, I could tell that the author and I had come from similar places, in spirit if not geography. I could relate to so much of what I read in his stories. He and I were among the young people...

(You can click on these.) Addendum to last week’s newsletter: I learned from Leia that the last words of David, the patron saint of Wales, can be translated in part to “be cheerful and do the little things.” What a lovely coda! Thanks, Leia. Let’s not get stepped on today. —Brendan

The name of this post comes from a swap I made with Zachary Kai, a thoughtful writer and blogger who kindly explained how his Title Traders directory works and agreed to help me try it out. (This is such a great idea, and it originated at Kami’s Corner.) As you might glean, “Tend To The Small Things” is the name of...

One of the two creatures depicted above is Garmegula, a giant monster I made up many years ago because I wanted to write some very short allegories about very tall monsters. Now he is the mascot of this site, in part because he staggers ever onward despite reeeally not having it together. It’s a quality I feel very...

If you thought “oh cool!” as soon as you read the words “Ethan Marcotte” above, then you and I understand each other. Ethan is a widely-cited author, designer, activist, runner, cat person, and one of the nicest men to have ever called me “you son of a bitch,” so I will try not to embarrass him by effusing overmuch...

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This is mostly a newsletter about circumventing the capital-a algorithm, but even I must acknowledge that a backwards clock is right four times a day. Google knows I’m a sicko for Chicago videos. Add in some advocacy for our city’s undersung beach-town side and yes, I am going to click your thumbnail. That’s how I...