The Structure, Part I (S3E4)
Celestograph by August Strindberg The Structure, Part I The generation ship floated, gently, upon the solar winds of a distant star. “Andromeda?” said...
The House, Part III (S3E3)
You can find the entirety of The House, lightly edited, on my website. The Haunted House: We Both Saw a Large Pale Light, Odilon Redon, 1896 The House, Part...
The House, Part II (S3E2)
In case you missed it, you can find part I here. The Haunted House: We Both Saw a Large Pale Light, Odilon Redon, 1896 The House, Part II It was a cloudless...
The House, Part I (S3E1)
Hello and welcome to season 3 of Applied Dilettantery. As you’ve probably noticed, the newsletters have been getting shorter and shorter — to be frank, I’m...
Rewriting Everything in the Rough Draft (AD S2E11)
Every time I start writing a newsletter I feel I have nothing to talk about — I’ve veered away from planning like it’s a deer that just leapt onto the road —...
Getting Sidetracked Building A Detailed Universe (AD S2E10)
As the days get shorter, so do the newsletters. A stray comment from Sherry had me thinking: why do I write this newsletter, anyway? I think the two main...
Isn’t That Just New Years’ Resolutions? (AD S2E9)
Rough draft completed, with a total of 51,434 words. However, it is very, very rough — I will take November to basically completely rewrite it. And then,...
Surprising, and Maybe Even Unfair (AD S2E8)
48,000 words. Just 2,000 left to go before the rough draft is done! Two essays this week, no miscellanea (didn’t you have enough miscellanea the last two...
An Anthology of Obsessions (S2E7)
Wait, it’s newsletter day again? That can’t be correct — let me check the calendar. Ah, I see it is in fact newsletter day again. I’m sad to report that, for...
A Form of Transcendent Mysticism (S2E6)
Apologies, this will once again be a short issue—pages don’t write themselves, and seeing as how we’re halfway through my (self-declared) NaSepWriMo, I just...
We Now Disrupt This Broadcast (S2E5)
Hello all! This will be a short missive (isn’t “missive” a great word?) because, to be completely frank, I forgot that it was newsletter week until just now....
This Email Has No Content (AD S2E4)
Hello again and welcome back to half-baked essay land. This is a long one (sorry!) but hopefully it’s of some interest. I’ve been working on a SwiftUI...
Simultaneously Praising Restraint and Forgiveness While Also Drenching Audiences in Gallons of Stage Blood (AD S2E3)
Another two weeks of work and pandemic boredom. All images this week are stills from Tokyo Story, which you’ll read about below. That which is spontaneously...
Suffused with a Deep Sense of Nostalgia for the Past (AD S2E2)
You ever had one of those weeks that was just… rough. Not even bad, mind, but just rough. Well, these past two weeks were some of those weeks—I can’t even...
Misplaced Institutional Incentives (AD S2E1)
Hello one and all to this new season of Applied Dilettantery (neé Adventures in Dilettantery)1, two weeks early. As mentioned in the last few issues, I’ve...
Running Out of Steam (AiD S1E26)
It’s been a bit of a long two weeks, so this issue is rather short, if you discount the (very) short story I’ve attached to the end 🙂 So, without further...
An Imitation of the Eternal Forms (AiD S1E25)
Buddha Amitabha with Two Attending Bodhisattvas, 1200s Boy, what a year, huh? What I’m Thinking About Black lives matter. I’ve done the bare minimum...
The Clockwork Precision of Storytelling (AiD #24)
Hello, one and all, from the latter half of a delightful four day weekend (that nevertheless feels just a little too short to be entirely satisfying). I...
A Long-Term Target for Reading (AiD #23)
Hello all! It’s that Sunday again—another weekend, another adventure in dilettantery. I do apologize for the length of the newsletter, this week and every...
Hopefully A Nice Chance for Rest and Relaxation (AiD #22)
Hello all and hopefully you’re all staying safe and sane. Personally, I (and, it seems, most of my coworkers) am finally feeling the strain of work-from-...
