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More and more the Italian cinema seems to me a bottomless reservoir full of masterpieces as well as films that are merely excellent. Lots of detritus too, for sure, but the richness of the good stuff appears inexhaustible. As it happens,...
The more I think about Dan Wang’s book Breakneck the less I think of it. Wang presents America as a country of lawyers — orderly, slow, nothing gets done — and China as a country of engineers, moving fast and breaking things, some of the...
This is one piece of a whole video chapbook, SWALLOW, that I issued in 2021. You can see more videos from that series on YouTube.
Wallgate I Wallgate II Wallgate III Wallgate IV
We’ve had so much post-apocalyptic “entertainment" that it now qualifies as a pop-cultural obsession, if not an addiction. Still, dystopian overload didn’t stop director Ridley Scott from taking us to a time when life as we know it once...
Sometimes I kvetch about how boring I find fantasy pantheons that are just Greek gods with a bad coat of paint. Sometimes I've blogged about it.Guys do you want to hear about my setting's unique pantheon? My god Warfrith is the god of...
I've tried for months to redesign my site. I was fed up with the design and I wanted something new but every time I tried I would get halfway through the home page and decide I didn't like that either. There are seven half working...
AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we...
It’s been nearly three years since my last podcast lineup check-in, so time to see where things stand in my good ol’ Apple Podcasts feed. Comparing all the previously check-ins, it’s interesting to see which shows have endured and which...
Neste momento em nossas vidas digitais, já estamos acostumados com pessoas compartilhando seus próprios infortúnios e desgraças nas redes sociais. Em geral, eu não gosto muito desse tipo de conteúdo porque, além de ser triste, às vezes...
I remember seeing a post1 a few months ago about Moments, an indie web photo blog site. I thought it looked nice, I like looking at pretty pictures, and I have been doing a lot of cloud photography this summer, so I created a photo...
I love this map. > Garrett’s Portfolio
$185,000 bought this house five blocks from meCharles L. Marohn Jr. and Daniel Herriges, Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley, 2024. (8/25/2026) This fall I'm part of a local group...
26 years! > Oh my aching back
I visited a pub recently that, before I went in, I really wanted to review. I drank there, periodically at least, years ago. It had closed during Covid and my assumption was that it would never come back. And yet, here it was, recently...