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Mar 31

As this novel coronavirus began spreading around the world, I saw many people mentioning two recent books this reminded them of: Severance by Ling Ma a…

Mar 30

If I were an old grandpa and not someone who’d recently been recently teaching the youth, I’d say “kids today are spending too much time listening to t…

Mar 27

but first some lighter stuff

Mar 24

Just to clarify, I’m not trying to infect Southern Vermont: I’m self-isolating at home, including totally avoiding contact with the town. Won’t be out …

Mar 16

The "pandemonium" part is just an etymology and a riff, so you can skip to that if you don't wanna read any plague stuff

Mar 16

Over the last couple days, a lot of party veteran Democrat support has coalesced around Joe Biden, who I think would be a weak candidate and mediocre p…

Mar 4

I trust you to make your own reading decisions

Feb 18

Wrote this up in the “free writing” period before the prompts started in the writing group today. Turned the “free writing” into a prompt, dastard that…

Jan 28

not trying to be the Ricky Gervais of astrology or anything

Jan 26

Maybe the dumbest thing I ever wrote, even dumber than the pee politics one

Jan 26

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