Chen Cao'an Has Advice for Being Online in an Election Year
It's two words — one, if you use a contraction.
Qiao Ji Explains Himself
A demimonde valedictorian, laughingly playing Imperial Historian
In Defense of the 'Relatively Low Quality'
which come to think of it is more or less my whole project
Friday Doggerel: Yang Jingxian - "The Flea"
Oh right, I was saying something about shorter and more frequent updates
Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
“A Failure as a Mouser. A Failure as a Cat!”
Of course you realize this means war.
Two Poems for a Rainy Sunday
Or: Traditional Chinese Medicine for Seasonal Affective Disorder, Except Effective
The Five Virtues of the Cat
And other sweepings from the cutting-room floor
Dragon Babies
Some last-minute tales of the altogether ooky
Susu Does the Dozens
Happy Monday; have some Bakhtinian carnival
The Naming of Cats, and an Offering
A “cat contract” 納貓兒契式 listing the cat's obligations: patrolling tirelessly, catching mice, leaving the numnums alone. From 銜蟬小錄 Xianchan xiaolu. If you can...
Tao Yuanming - “Home Again”
Monday Motivation from medieval China's best-loved proponent of loud-quitting
Unidentified Flying Object Seen Over Yangzhou
...in the middle of the 11th century. Sorry.
Friday Doggerel: "The Grubber"
which had a ruder title before I remembered it was going to be in the subject line of the e-mail
What's Good?
A Collection of Small Nice Things