Hello from New York
Hello from New York, or technically, Union City, New Jersey, but given the trip is around/about New York, I think it's fair to say hello from New York....
A Really Useful Interpretive Lens
Sherry’s new artwork on our wall. What I’m Reading I finally finished The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Henrich’s explanation of his theory about, well, the...
Whoops I Got A Dog
Short this week because, as the title implies, I got a dog. What I’m Reading Continuing with my book-a-week-for-2020 pledge, I read two books in the past two...
All Quiet on the Non-Fiction Front
Happy New Year, one and all! I’ve had a nice two weeks off (exactly coinciding, I am now realizing, with these newsletters) and I’m not preparing to head...
An Intentional Work of Literature
This is quite long! I apologize! Just think of it as an early Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Chunjie/insert-other-winter-holidays-here present. What I’m Watching...
Jangly Psychedelic Indie Pop
Short one this week because I’m lazy, sorry. What I'm Watching We finished up American Horror Story: Cult, which was reasonably entertaining if not...
An Early Thanksgiving Feast
It's almost American Thanksgiving! Which is a profoundly problematic holiday in some ways (although thank god it's not Columbus Day, which has been very...
Is This A Crossover? (It's Not)
The Buttondown image uploader seems to be down at the moment, so apologies that this doesn't include any pretty photos. What I'm Watching Having caught up on...
Laser Targeted At My Teenaged Self
frostyshadows 28 likes Inktober day 21 - treasure . . . #inktober #inktober2019 #inktober2019day21 #art #sketchbook Oct. 22, 2019, 6:05 a.m. Busy week—guests...
Migraines, and Other Mellifluous Melodies
frostyshadows 35 likes Inktober day 8 - frail Went with the idea that the earth is not invincible to humans . . . #inktober #inktober2019 #inktober2019day8...
An Exciting Week of Nothing Much Happening
This week I messed things up. A bit, not too much. But I guess that’s life, right? We pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and get back to work. What I’m...
It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood
What I’m Watching I was finally cajoled into watch not just IT Chapter One but indeed also IT Chapter Two. They’re… fine? Pretty typical Hollywood...
I Don't Know, What's The Content?
I made a small tweet a few weeks ago (before the last newsletter, actually, I think) that I want to revisit, where I said that it would be interesting to...
No Musings This Week™️
No musings his (bi)week. I (perhaps sadly) haven't been up to much in the past couple weeks, aside from my day job, of course 🙃 What I’m Reading Going...
Soma; Or, Moving to San Francisco and Living to Tell
So, I've gone and done it—I’ve moved to San Francisco. I guess in a way this is the culmination of a long-term dream—when I first visited the Bay Area, ten...