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But This Is Wondrous Strange | 24.03

November 3, 2024

Edition 24.03: Summer's Here, and the Time Is ... Right Out This edition can also be read at my web site: https://pronolagus.com/but-this-is-wondrous-...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | 24.02

Yet Another in a Long Series of Diversions in an Attempt to Avoid Responsibility The evening plane rises up from the runway Over constellations of light I...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | 24.01

The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost a metaphor for brain fog It's been a few years. Time is still weird, but not as weird as the last time I...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Ed. 12

2021, Week the 12th: Time Is an Illusion, Lunchtime Doubly So The View From Then I started this edition back in March of 2020, just before lockdown happened,...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Ed. 11.5

December 31, 2020

Week the 52nd: We Return Yes, you are still subscribed to the thing, of which I have restarted. Another edition cometh VERY soon, this is the world's...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Ed. 11

Week the 16th: We Sit and Ponder, Together, Alone Spring Ain't Waiting Greetings, program! Yes, I am old! Tron was available on one of the shifting streaming...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Week 13

Week the 12th* (Their Lives Were Full of Virus) Quarantine Buddy Some helpful wag piped up that the 9th edition went out earlier in the 11th week of the...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Week 10

Week the 10th Here we are, back on the electronic horse! I feel compelled to start off these things with a weather report, which is almost pointless once...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Week 9

Week the 9th We're late, again, but don't let that fool you. We'll probably be late quite a lot of the time. Just saying. Work is still shifting schedules,...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Week 8

February 22, 2020

Week the 8th, Telling It Like It Is So this catch up scheme I had is no good. I'm just guilting myself for no valid purpose so I can say that, technically...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Week 6, Serious This Time

February 12, 2020

Week the 6th. Back It On Up. The Cat in Its Natural Habitat (Throwaway subtitle: We STILL make mistakes, meaning me, the mistake-maker.) Yes, last week’s...

But This Is Wondrous Strange | Week 5

February 8, 2020

Week the 5th. Call it 5.9th. It's really the middle of an alternately rainy and partly cloudy day in the PDX as I start this, but sunlight jamming in through...

But This Is Wondrous Strange: Week 4

February 3, 2020

BITWSx 004 Week the Fourth The Sad, Sad Truth, the Dirty Lowdown Boz Scaggs had a series of hits in the late 70s and just out the other side of the 80s. But...

But This Is Wondrous Strange: Week 3

January 18, 2020

Week the Third A deeply underwhelming Snowpocalypse Neil Peart Lives Like any other towering figure in life, he lives in my thoughts, memories, and sometimes...

But This Is Wondrous Strange: Week 2

January 12, 2020

Week the Second, What’s Good? It’s been a strange and enervating week. Work and overextension on art projects made things stressful, then the news of Neil...

But This Is Wondrous Strange, Week 1

January 6, 2020

It Begins Hallo! This is the first newsletter of the new year, and dare I say the new decade, despite what many pedants—and to be sure, I'm often one of...