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-...
Convicted Unanimously by a Jury of His Peers
Happy Easter one and all! It’s not actually a holiday here in California, but oh well. Short edition this week, since I already wrote a 2,000-word newsletter...
Surprise Stories (AiD #20)
Russell here with some surprise flash fiction, inspired by Sherry (and Magic Realism Bot). These aren’t particularly polished (honestly, I don’t think...
Mindbending Escheresque Puzzle World Works of Art
Yes, it’s me, Russell, back with another exciting issue of “what have you done in the past two weeks”, which (it will surprise nobody) mostly consists of...
... And Another Thing
Right after going to press, I saw this video about Italians singing from the rooftop to survive quarantine and Chinese sending videos of support to Italy,...
This Story Is Bonkers and Has No Chill
rwblickhan 5 likes Mirrors show us not what is seen, but only what is unseen Feb. 29, 2020, 7:52 a.m. Hello all from a world that looks considerably scarier...
