Deconstructing an AI Sonnet
(Rusty Niall is now hosted on Buttondown instead of Substack) About a week before Open AI stunned the world, and by the world I mean tech vloggers, with its...
On Earplugs and Eyescreens
Now everybody can have a moon at their window! Rusty Niall is now hosted on Buttondown instead of Substack. If you had asked me for something that aided my...
Perfect Little Jumps – Super Mario Bros 1-1 and Basho's Frog
Yes, I know that Frog Mario is Super Mario Bros 3 Before the most famous video game character went by the name of Mario, he was known in Japan as Jumpman....
The Morass of Mid Career: Inside Llewyn Davis and Me
Llewyn and Ulysses Rusty Niall is now hosted on Buttondown instead of Substack. This essay also contains plot spoilers for the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn...
Orange Cassidy: The wrestler that rescues Romanticism from Irony
bn Orange Cassidy (Author's Note: Just in case you were curious about the change in platform, my newsletter is now hosted by Buttondown rather than Substack....
Rusty Niall is Migrating from Substack to Buttondown
Why I have to leave this platform
Football at Shatner's or Diner from Heat?
The ideology of non-ideological spaces
Notes on the niche pastime of thinking about death
A lyric essay about a lifetime spent pondering the imponderable
Don't Get Clever With Me, Son...
The only thing that will displace an audience’s prejudiced image of you is your humanity.
Why you're probably wrong about Instapoetry
What defenders and detractors don't understand about Kaur-core
How playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (sorta) helped me to procrastinate less
...and why all tools must eventually break
Where are all the happy poems, when is Poetry Unplugged returning (?) and my future plans for this long neglected substack.
Well, hello there...
Beyond the Page and Person paywalls
Some thoughts about the past, present and future of poetry on the internet
A bad workman always fetishises his tools
Do good writers need to hate the act of writing?
Who do I think I'm fooling?
Misadventures in digital voice cloning.
Mastodon is my mood board rather than my echo chamber
A note of hope, a note of caution and the return of my clock card poems
It Follows and the Negative Space of Horror Films
Oh look, the post I would have shared on Halloween if I had finished it on time.
The Last Time Social Media Sparked Pure, Unbridled Joy
Twitter again. Yeah, I know…
A Window Cleaner Discovers a Korok Seed at the Tip of an Unnamed Skyscraper
A yarn inspired by my last blog
Oversized Desk Toys and Korok Seeds
On accessible open worlds and inaccessible cities
