#14: Check out my art show
Back on my B.S. (Boring Substack)
From Substack
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#13: Happy birthday
Turns out I share a birthday week with SARS-CoV-2
#12: The reality issue
On Covid denial, "hyperfreedom," and hoping reality will stage a comeback
#11: Cheesequake Service Area
Some last notes on voting and democracy before… well, you know.
#10: Getting out the votes
A bonus edition about voting in America. Fun fact: did you know that the Constitution doesn't actually grant anyone the right to vote???
#9: Uncanny normalcy
I desperately want to believe that the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train
#8: On repeat
Pandemic time means having to make the same hard choice over and over again
#7: Ratio'd
I spent all weekend working on Newsletter Content™, but just threw it all out.
#6: Secrets of success(ion)
commit #25: [bugfix] Patches hole in presidential succession logic
#5: A spore-borne hate plague
Getting over the 'crisis wall', and how Transformers introduced me to pandemics
#4: Empty, living places
**September 18-20, 2020 • Days 190-192**
#3: 883 Korok seeds and counting
These silly delights have silly ends
#2: I like to type
A newsletter about newsletters, plus some recommendations
#1: Finishing things in an uncertain time
Reconciling "perfect", "good", and "done" during a pandemic
Kindness is a muscle.
From time to time my wife and I will get emails from our friend Andy, just to catch up. He sent one this week, asking how we're settling into life in New Jersey, and telling us what's been happening lately in his own life. (Nothing…
Rules.
Some rules for blogging: Write only about things in which you have a personal stake.
Garden State (Monday Letter #6)
Hello friends. Quite a lot has happened since my last letter. I first moved to Chicago a little over fifteen years ago, to start my BFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then I’ve had seven jobs here, two…
Thoughts on music. (Monday Letter #4)
Good evening. First of all, this newsletter has a title now: "Monday Letters". The actual reason is super, super boring: these are letters from me to all of you, and due to my post-baby schedule, it's likely they'll be written and sent on…
Being alone, together
First, some inside baseball. This letter is just over 1900 words. It's actually two subjects in one, and though I considered splitting this into two issues, one topic segues neatly into the other in a satisfying way I decided not to give…
On making things worth loving
It feels important to me to try to send this first letter to no one in particular\*, before I've put out my link and asked people to subscribe. I have a long history of making (and talking up) big plans about internet things that I don't…