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florilegia #15: what's up, august 2025
August 6, 2025
Some news! I’m delighted to announce that my weird Munchausen’s-by-demon (??) story will be included in Malarkey’s annual “Hellarkey” Halloween zine. Check...
florilegia #14.5: july album
July 30, 2025
July is a helluva month, but at least now it’s Leo season. My most insufferable time! Apologies in advance. did you know this July was Zachary Taylor’s 175th...
florilegia #14: current
July 25, 2025
The Maroon women on the lake’s fringes taught her to paddle a canoe and swim underwater for near three minutes without coming up, and most importantly how to...
florilegia #13: what's up, july 2025
July 9, 2025
Well, I’ve conducted my annual reviews of Dirty Dancing and Thelma & Louise (the latter augmented by news of Michael Madsen’s recent death), so it must be...
florilegia #12.5: june album
June 30, 2025
Midsummer has come and gone, and the days are nearly endless. Wishing you cool drinks in your hand and green leaves over your head. a forest pool;...
florilegia #12: common bones
June 23, 2025
Commonplacing has become popular again recently, and of course a florilegium is a type of commonplace book. On the other hand, Susanna Clarke says: In the...
florilegia #11: what's up, june 2025
June 6, 2025
We’re halfway through the year, and I don’t know about you, but the year is starting to catch up to me. I took advantage of May being a long month (this...
florilegia #10.5: may album
May 30, 2025
Have you ever heard the phrase “social summer”? Yeah, I rebuke it too. Anyway: happy summer to the rest of the Northern Hemisphere; can it please stop...
florilegia #10: behind weird florida
May 23, 2025
“…meaningful connection to landscape is a human birthright.” Leodrune, Occult Needlecraft I know what you’re thinking: isn’t all Florida “weird Florida”? As...
florilegia #9: what's up, may 2025
May 5, 2025
Greetings from my hometown, as I’ve been in Florida this weekend for my grandmother’s memorial. I’m not quite typing this from the beach, but I can see the...
florilegia #8.5: april album
April 30, 2025
WELL has it truly been the cruelest month for everyone? Probably. But at least now the Pollen Seasons are upon us! florals? for spring?? etc. the kitty baby;...
florilegia #8: on profanity
April 18, 2025
This past winter, two slices of media tailored to my interests dropped almost simultaneously: the Netflix show American Primeval and the album Profanation of...
florilegia #7: what's up, apr 2025
April 7, 2025
If you’re a Book World person, you probably read The Atlantic’s examination of Meta’s use of LibGen to feed their large language models. Yes, some of my work...
florilegia #6.5: march album
March 31, 2025
Talk about the MARCH of time, huh? Eh? Sigh. the tiniest art critic; local opinions; a real steal. coffee so strong it’ll make you see God; just the way...
florilegia #6: on this day
March 19, 2025
Whatever else Mormonism gave me, it made me an inveterate journaler. The church loves journals, such that more than one LDS president has instructed members...
florilegia #5: what's up, mar 2025
March 7, 2025
What’s this, the beginning of the end of the first quarter? Why am I talking about first quarters like I’m a small business? The only quarters I’m interested...
florilegia #3.5: february album
February 28, 2025
February photo tour! (“dump” sounds so inelegant, don’t you think?) in a Schenectady snowstorm, two oases: unexpected windowsill citrus, and a casserole...
florilegia #4: the florida project
February 24, 2025
In 2017, Sean Baker’s film The Florida Project came out. It was titled after the code name for the 1971 project that became Walt Disney World. Pass-A-Grille...
florilegia #3: what's up, feb 2025
February 7, 2025
Man, what is up? January proceeded in its usual way, that is to say, I feel like a cartoon character who’s been sucker-punched so hard they almost topple,...
florilegia #2.5: january album
February 3, 2025
In an effort to move away from both using Instagram habitually for fun and relying on Meta products for Engagement (TM), I present: the January Album, some...
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