A Shot of Jack

The Last Notes From Table 30

April 22, 2021

Hello. It’s been awhile. I’m sorry about that. I’m also sorry that this is my last newsletter. I decided about a month ago that I would be moving the...

#26 New Fiction and Old Friends

February 22, 2021

Hello. Welcome to the 26th Notes From Table 30, my monthly newsletter where I talk about…well, whatever I want to talk about. This was a rough month for me....

#25 Streaming Into 2021

January 23, 2021

Hello, everyone. My son is out of the hospital and on the long road to recovery. It will be weeks before he can work full time again. Between that and...

I'm Not Sure How To Write This...

December 2, 2020

Hello. I know it’s been a while, but a lot has happened. Some of it good. I completed my third semester at Goddard College and am close to being done with my...

#24 News, Dunkirk, and Talented Monsters

October 13, 2020

Hello. And welcome to the 24th issue of my newsletter, Notes From Table 30. I’m Jack Cameron, but you know that. Some of you asked if this newsletter is...

Want To Be One Of My Students?

September 20, 2020

Hello, subscribers. As part of my MFA in Creative Writing Program I am teaching a virtual class through Creative Colloquy. The class is called "Outlining By...

#23 Interstellar, Rob Lowe, and How To Build A Franchise

September 9, 2020

Hello again. I know. It’s been a minute. Then again maybe it hasn’t. The year 2020 is #TimeSoup. It both feels like forever and at the same time it is also...

#22 Inception, Cornelius Sky, and Discord

August 8, 2020

Hello again. Welcome to August. For me August began with a message on my phone from the storage unit facility where most of my belongings are currently being...

#21 The Prestige, Life is Strange 2, and Losing Friends

July 22, 2020

Hello. The obsessive/compulsive side of me would love nothing more than to write and send these newsletters out at the same time every single week. But I’ve...

#20 The Vault, Insomnia and How Facebook is a Bad Ally

June 29, 2020

Hello from The Vault, my windowless basement office in downtown Tacoma between two Tiki bars. Some of you asked about the safe that came with my office. It...

#19 Memento, Darktown, and Defunding The Police

June 15, 2020

Hello from the Vault. That’s what I’m calling my new office on the first floor of a building built in 1906 that is now situated between two Tiki Bars in...

#18 Nolan's Following and Shorpy

April 20, 2020

Enter We’ve made it through another week of this. Yes, I know that time isn’t working correctly and a week now feels like six months and two days at the same...

#17 Notes From Table 30 Is Back

April 13, 2020

EnterHello again. How’s the mini-apocalypse treating you? It’s taken me roughly three weeks to get used to this new normal. I’ve gone through a LOT of...

#16 Social Distancing at Table 30

March 19, 2020

Hello. I know I normally publish these things on Sundays, but these are not normal times. Like a lot of you, I’m not in a good headspace right now. I heard...

#15 Table 30 Pandemic Edition

March 15, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re okay here at Table 30. Over the week I’ve had multiple friends and family call and check on me and I can report that right now I’m okay....

#14 Nickel Boys and Losing

March 8, 2020

Hello again. Welcome back to Notes From Table 30. Table 30 for those who do not know is the last table, the one closest to the kitchen at most Shari’s...

#13 Return of the Jack

March 1, 2020

“How long have you been doing this?” I asked. “Eighteen years. Can’t imagine doing anything else.” the heavily tattooed man said to me as we hit another bump...

#12 This Is NOT a Drill

January 26, 2020

Hello, friends. Thanks for sticking around. I really do appreciate it. The above cartoon shows my basic reason for not posting this stuff on Facebook. Like...

#11 Marriage Story, Parenting, and a Frozen Head

January 20, 2020

Hello again. It has been a fast and busy week. With less than a month to go before grad school at Goddard starts up again, I’ve been preparing for the new...

#10 Facebook, Murder Book, And Politics

January 13, 2020

Hello. Welcome to the year 2020. I tell myself this is going to be a Better Year. We’ll see. I’m going to keep this one a bit short.Neil PeartAs I write this...

#9 Rise of Skywalker Review (Spoilers)

December 24, 2019

This is a special edition of the newsletter. I’m going to talk about the new Star Wars movie and my reaction to it.The first Star Wars movie came out when I...

#8 Ten Books By Ten Friends

December 16, 2019

Hello. You may have noticed that there was no newsletter last week. That was due to a brief cold and me trying to catch up on writing about Tacoma homicides...

#7 Passion and Consequences

December 2, 2019

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Notes From Table 30, my mostly weekly newsletter where I talk about….well, whatever I want to talk about. I’m...

#6 Personal Update, Disney+, and The Best Car Commercial You've Ever Seen

November 25, 2019

Hello. Welcome to issue six. We had one unsubscribe last week, but two new subscriptions. If you’re reading this and considering unsubscribing, let me know...

#5 Facebook, Goddard, and a peak at my Thesis

November 10, 2019

Hi. I’m still Jack Cameron and this is still my newsletter. It’s been a long week and this is going to be a short newsletter. I’m entering the final week of...

#4 Violent Movies, Woke Culture, and Facebook

November 3, 2019

Hello. I’m Jack Cameron and welcome to another newsletter by me. Thanks for sticking around. We lost one subscriber last week. That subscriber unsubscribed...

#4 Life Update And Comic Books

October 27, 2019

Hello and welcome to another issue of Notes From Table 30. Some of you may have noticed that there was no newsletter last week. It was one of many things...

#3 El Camino and Perfidia

October 14, 2019

Hello. Thanks for sticking around. I’m Jack. This is my newsletter. Increasingly I’m thinking that this may become my primary means of expression on the...

#002 The Night Manager

October 7, 2019

Hello, everyone. Jack Cameron here again. The idea is to have these things come out every Sunday, but my move to Outpost Doghouse took a lot of my time. And...

Vol.3 #1. Table 30 Gets Personal

September 29, 2019

Hello. Welcome to the first official Notes From Table 30 from Substack. I’m Jack Cameron. I wasn’t sure if the change in newsletter server was going to be...

Three Legends of My Least Favorite Grandfather

September 24, 2019

Hello. This is my first real entry on Substack. I decided I’d write a little story about my Grandfather. I hope you enjoy it.Next week we’ll start with a...

#54 My First Residency At Goddard & A New Story

July 21, 2019

Hey, everyone. I'm writing this on my second to last day of my residency at Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington. I'm an MFA in Creative Writing...

#52 News, Andrew Yang, and Dark Phoenix

June 23, 2019

Hello, welcome to issue 52 of Notes From Table 30. I'm Jack. (Or John. Or 'Gabe's Dad'.) It has been a very eventful couple of weeks. I graduated from The...

Summer programming and video from Evergreen Tacoma

June 17, 2019

Hello. Yesterday there should have been a new issue of Notes From Table 30, but I was busy graduating with my Bachelor's Degree from The Evergreen State...

That's Jack Cameron BA

June 4, 2019

Hey, everyone. You might have noticed there was no newsletter this week. This is because it is week 10 of 10 in my final quarter at The Evergreen State...

Subscribers, I Trust You (Please Read)

April 7, 2019

I started this newsletter because I wanted a direct way to share my thoughts with people who want to hear from me that did not rely on a social media...

I Wish I Didn't Have To Write This

April 7, 2019

I started this newsletter as a way of communicating directly with people who genuinely want to hear what I have to say. If you do not want to hear what I...

#27 Spheres, Go Store, Red Dead, and Halloween

October 27, 2018

Hello, everyone. Apologies for the delay in getting this newsletter out. My keyboard died and once I got a new keyboard I'd found that the Internet ate the...

#22 Bad Actors (Not Like Shia LaBeouf)

September 21, 2018

Hello. How was your week? I thought asking questions last week would result in more responses but surprisingly I got less. So I figured I'd start right off...