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I'm going to describe a character archetype to you, found in many modern comedies. These characters have an extremely high opinion of themselves, but are generally incompetent. They are also typically portrayed as selfish and...
The sequel to Legends And Lattes.
Your browser does not support the video tag. I'm a generalist. I design, I code, I end up in a lot of places where typography matters but isn't really the job. Reviewing a client's staging site. Onboarding to a codebase I didn't write....
8.5/10 Fantastic book that doesn't overstay its welcome. Every Witcher book has been a banger!
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been drafting and re-drafting our discovery playback deck, straightening up the story we need to tell so that it’s clear. It’s also helping us create shared understanding amongst the team members, given...
Csaba Szabo, one of the most active current Mithras scholars, has a new book out from Cambridge Scholars Publishing on Mithras in Dacia. His blog, with details, is here. Details: Csaba Szabó, Mithras in Roman Dacia: Local Appropriations...
Like almost any other day, I sat down with my coffee and opened Lightroom. I started importing a new project and went to edit. Well, I switched into the develop module. I was going to edit and the photo wasn't showing, and neither were...
Reviews / June 29, 2026 Atlantis Paul Williams Parry Music Ltd, 1987 Paul Williams’ 1987 Aquarius is, simply put, one of the most beautiful library music albums ever made. It would never have been described that way when it came out, of...
I have received a few questions from readers about the path to becoming a top movie director, prompted by a recent Substack post entitled “The Annenberg Ouroboros” by Hollywood Gadfly.The article critiques the work of the USC Annenberg...
Woo-hoo, the big one-zero-zero. That certainly took some doing. 3 years to be exact. How the time flies.A little bit of reminiscing, and then we go right into it. My objections to age verification online, the constant hypocrisy...
Cosmic Fling is an unexpected delight. We don't often get to see new animated stories told with marionettes. It tells the story of an average down-to-earth garbage man. Well, not quite. Stan works in outer space – and it’s his job to...
A few reality blurred updates, including a fun new page you might not have noticed if not for this fun site update!
Tarot’s had me for a few years. So I built Yarrow, a three-card reader. Most spreads run past, present, future. Yarrow runs Root, Stem, Bloom: what’s beneath, where it stands, what it’s becoming. Past, present, future never sat right...
Or: How to Get Rich Selling the Dream of Getting Rich There is a method. It is simple. It is clear. It unfolds in numbered steps. It will, with admirable confidence, produce $10,000 every month. The article explaining it is free. The...
I learn today that Brepols have published some new English translations of two works by Tertullian: the Ad Martyras and the De Fuga in Persecutione. Both are translated by Thomas J. Heffernan for the Brepols Library of Christian Sources....