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2026
In which the question is posed: am I dancin' or traffic jammin'—being critical of movies—Doctor Who?—how to get off my ass and post more—inspirations and freedoms of what to write about—pursue the small joys of snail mail—Heartless fiction snippet...

2026 April 25: Heartless

In which your rum-humbliest old 'blogger shoves a bit of his so-called "flash fiction" at your eyeballs.

2026 April 22: Cheerios and Roses

In which letter-writing is mused on, but my specific intended subject is dealt with swiftly in the end.

2026 April 17: Shandean

In which there can be only little claim that my prose, my posts, are anything akin to Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and yet—

2026 April 11: Hardly Working

In which I expend much effort to create something that will only marginally improve efficiency, and in the end may be just as much or more work as before.

2026 March 21: Whovian

In which I attempt to explain my life-long enthusiasm for Doctor Who, whether it needs explaining or not.

2026 February 13: Rewatchability

In which I consider my critical stance on movies, and how that is or is not related to any actual cinematographic merit.

2026 February 5: Be Water

In which a perspective is reached on moving through space when other people are involved.

2025
In which I recall finding myself in King's Lynn, England, for no good reason—start driving...

2025 October 22: Drive

In which I put aside anxiety and just... drive.

2025 April 4: Oxford

In which I reflect on getting lost in England in 2001 and missing out on a trip to see Oscar Wilde's college.

2024
In which I get this thing off to a steady start, then trail off.

2024 December
In which I agonize over overtime—experience Nosferatu again, Robert Eggers's style.

2024 December 30: Nosferatu Redux

In which we go see Robert Eggers's new version of Nosferatu, and reflect on the experience in itself, and compared to the original.

2024 December 5: O.T.

In which I experience the highs and lows of overtime work for the (gasp!) very first time in my life. Is it for me? Will I exploit it for all the time-and-a-half it pays?

2024 November
In which I wax nostalgic about HTML—mourn what might have been—boogie down to Fear & Delight—unveil an old 2D side-scroller experiment—and finally discovering (possibly already much superseded) web components.

2024 November 23: Componentized

In which web components are discovered and implemented, and there is much rejoicing to be had. The benefits of thinking out loud.

2024 November 16: Side-Scroller Crow

In which I present my incredibly janky foray into an unfinished interactive 2D side-scroller featuring a crow.

2024 November 13: The Correspondents & Related Reminiscences

In which I finally watch a particularly amazing music video, and reminisce about vaguely tangentially-related memories from my time in England, ages ago.

2024 November 6: What

In which...; fuck.

2024 November 2: Ancient HTML

In which I look back on my excursions with web design, specifically with HTML and CSS, over the past couple decades. Yes, decades.

2024 October
In which I introduce my intentions with this homebrew blog—discourse a bit about why I've called it what it is—go over some various project ideas—dive into one of them (simple pixel animation)—going to see a silent horror film classic—and toxic positivity, of all things.

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