Sunday Super Bowl LIX What We Do in the Shadows, 6x10 What We Do in the Shadows, 6x11 The New Yorker, “The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis”1 ER, 1x18 M…

February 16, 2025

Sunday Wired, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover” Systematic Hatreds, “The Shadow of Violence” Woodcutters, p. 81…

February 9, 2025

I’ve decided these should be annotated entries only, with a few possible exceptions. There’s no reason to reach for a unifying theme for everything when it…

February 2, 2025

Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. The weather is warm, the birdsong is different,1 cars drive on the left-hand side of the road, and there are trams…

January 26, 2025

In the fall of 2001, a high school friend and I drove from our hometown of Mount Vernon, Iowa, into nearby Cedar Rapids to see Mulholland Drive. We went to…

January 19, 2025

Not a single entry for Pride & Prejudice this week. Pathetic. A marker of how much I’ve been enjoying it, I suppose. More on that when I’m done, and I hope…

January 12, 2025

New year, new habit. So begins my attempt to track the whole of my media diet, week to week. “Why?” you ask. “What would possess you?” Well, I don’t know…

January 5, 2025

I’m typing this in my kitchen, at a small stretch of counter that rises taller than the rest. I use it most days as an improvised standing desk while I…

December 21, 2024

I’ve been on Bluesky a lot lately. I joined about a year and half ago, but since it blew up at the beginning of the month,1 it’s been exciting to see…

December 7, 2024

It was a week or two before the election that I first started making the connection. I was up late again, scrolling through TikTok, watching video after…

December 1, 2024

I turned forty earlier this month. Fifteen days ago, in fact. Took the day off. Woke up late. I think I did some laundry. Might have played a little of Lif…

October 19, 2023