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This essay, like most of my other essays, was born out of a recent conversation I had with a friend, or do I call them an acquaintance. Honestly, I’m tired of labels, so let’s call them a friendquaintance and move on. I’m not even sure...
Jon Banafato shared his older blog post Stacking Chairs in Mastodon the other day. “Stacking chairs”, taken literally, is what it sounds like. You know those stackable plastic and metal chairs that they have in your local library’s...
Ja, was hab ich denn heute für euch? Ich würde sagen, eine meiner Alltime-favourite Crews. Nämlich die Roots mit dem Track „Respond/React“ aus dem frühen Album „Illadelph Halflife„. Der Song ist vielleicht nicht ganz so bekannt, wie...
Continuing from last week’s thoughts. In a recent conversation we had, Ed Jollyboat used the analogy of an airport runway as a linear introductory section to a game, which opens up into blue sky freedom. I want to run with that, but I’m...
One of the more interesting conundrums that I’m encountering this summer is how to write about the afterlife of the Roman bath at Isthmia without getting dragged into endless detail (and the kind of fine grain arguments that...
A very short read about mostly very short haircuts. OK this is a strange thing to reflect on but ... I’m idly thinking of the whereabouts of where I’ve suffered the fleeting joy and/or the deeply felt indignity of getting a haircut - as...
June 24, 2026 She goes away a lot in the summer. Mostly long weekends with a group of friends who have homes at the beach. The packing part drives her crazy. She doesn’t need to really dress up, but she still always finds herself on...
Photo: © Stan B.Imagine waking up, walking down your block and finding Darth Vader's Headquarters right smack in the middle of what was once a picture book, beautiful, American town. Past tense. Just look at that cancerous, oversized...
I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by Patrick Brosset at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it's inaccessible by default. Note: This post contains...
Does anyone know good examples of personal sites combining a blog with apps listings? Thinking of changing up my site but the examples I know separate the blog from the applications. Inessential is a good one though.
A meme from the #dotcons The recurring argument around violence and nonviolence gets trapped in a false choice. One side says “Violence is never the answer.” the other says “Violence is the only thing that has ever changed history.” Both...
If hazy IPA is loosening its grip on the independent beer scene, nobody has told Whiplash. They're still churning them out in Ballyfermot, doubtless to a still-appreciative audience. It falls upon your correspondent to pour the requisite...
Just a quick note to remind you that Swamp Thing 1989 #3 (aka #90) is out this week, and the mini-series speeds along to its long-delayed conclusion. Things are very clearly building to a head, and given the number of plotlines all...
It seems like it's been a while since I've shared photos from the Indian Dance Circle in Frontierland. As I've mentioned before, my family never made it to this area for some reason, but I wish I'd seen the various kinds of Native...
Jozef Czapski is an author whose books have made a couple of appearances on the blog previously. Back in 2019, I wrote about “Lost Time“, a collection of lectures he gave on Proust whilst incarcerated in a Soviet concentration camp; and...