Every time I finish a novel in which I have invested a lot of time and emotion, I feel a bit unmoored. What other worlds are out there now that this one is gone? It’s like the characters in that world died and …
Reading
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
culture
The Novel Cure
I resubscribed to Micro.blog, but ran into bugs at almost every turn. I’m going to be paring back my social media presence.
You can find my blogging @robert@canneddragons.net on the Fediverse (which can be followed from Micro.blog).
I’ll …
Tech
Web Ads
Not many people profess a love of advertisements on the internet. Among people I follow, particularly on the indie web, few really like Instagram, either. There’s a distaste for big web companies like Meta who make their money on data harvesting and …
The Demise of a Newsletter
One of the few newsletters I pay to subscribe to is Spruce Island from Orthodox Christian writer Michael Warren Davis. Davis is packing it in after a send-off entitled “Death to Substack.” Davis minces no words in his antipathy towards the platform. …
This interstitial period leading into the fall seemed like as good a time as any to update my /now page.
Tech
Tangled Up In Chaos
A few days ago, I received a plea in my usual email from the media outlet Tangle.
The last six months have been a difficult time for media outlets. Overwhelmed by the news, many readers and listeners are tuning out. Those who are staying up to date …
You know a CD is old when the insert explains compact disc technolgy. The Cure Staring At The Sea sounds wonderful on disc, though.
Tech
Billie Bean King
Zachary Brown writes for the Verge about a new game/utililty from Hank Green. The premise of the Focus Friend app is sort of like an updated Tamagotchi for phone addicts. You are the virtual caretaker of a character like Billy Bean King, a bean who …
Noise
Saturday Night Video
Falling On My Sword
In honor of Tops’ new album Bury The Key being released yesterday, I’m featuring one of the tracks, “Falling On My Sword,” as the Saturday Night Video this week.
“Falling On My Sword” is my favorite among the early singles from this LP and probably …
culture
Of Human Bondage
The third edition of John Brady’s This & That. zine reached my mailbox this week. As I read through it, I thought about the slower pace of communication from the past. In the book Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the residents of a …
I was going through Clive Thompson’s latest Linkfest and showing my wife some of the more interesting shares when I clicked on a link and was shocked to find myself face to face with one of my own blog posts.
Cool!
Guess The Atlantic moved E.B. to a new beat.
My brother loves his wife and wants to do things that she likes but I sense that he’s not super thrilled about going to tonight’s Rod Stewart concert to hear an octogenarian sing about how sexy he is.
My wife decries political rot whereas I tend to be more concerned about cultural degradation. We have fun together.
Occasionally I participate in the deluge, but I think about this tweet from years ago quite a bit.
The Bear Notes implementation of callouts looks really nice.
It doesn’t seem like such a bad idea to challenges some of the premises of conventional contemporary western health protocols, but MAHA seems to be throwing out the baby with the (fluoride-infused) bath water.
It’s hard to stay away from using Ghost. The upgraded newsletter design features and the forthcoming fediverse integration are very alluring.
“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”
I’m looking forward to listening to this episode of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God podcast about Orthodox Christianity. I’m especially interested in what one of the primary guests, Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick has to say, since he …
The new Sabrina Carpenter album cover is the contemporary pop version of the original cover of Spinal Tap’s Smell The Glove.
I had to try out Lazy and I’m currently figuring out how it will fit into my workflow.
The sold out Ginger Root show was a well orchestrated mix of sights and sounds. Thanks to my lady friend for braving the BO and heat to join me.
My lady friend discovered this morning that if you clean the HomePod Mini in a certain way, Siri starts playing punk rock.
What if those fake DMV texts were real and the Department of Motor vehicles was using .wang as their TLD?