You look out your window. A bird is perched in the tree outside. The bird has a scrap of paper in its beak. There are words written on the paper. You try to decipher them. You can’t. You open the window and reach out. The bird hops backward and opens its beak, cawing derisively. The paper flutters free. You snatch for it. Your fingers connect but you’ve overextended. As you tumble from the window, you look at the paper in your hand. It reads: “UNIMPORTANT BIRD DOT COM IS A GOOD WEBSITE. YOU SHOULD READ AND SUPPORT IT.” You fall to your death, etc.
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17 Feb 2026
To succeed in this industry, first delete your higher cortical functions.
24 Jan 2026
Some lessons learned.
15 Jan 2026
Wikipedia is a lifeboat in a sea of garbage
I’m happy it survives. But its existence increasingly feels like anomaly.
23 Sep 2025
A quick note about this site's RSS feed
It’s been updated.
18 Sep 2025
Hey let's review a comic about a bird getting existential
bird comic by Ruby Carter is quite good.
6 Sep 2025
'A man for whom historical truth had all his life run at twenty-four frames a second'
More notes on Joan Didion’s Political Fictions (2001)
3 Sep 2025
I love to hate on Ross Douthat
He’s a conservative intellectual trapped in an enemies-to-lovers arc with liberalism.
20 Aug 2025
But criticism is alive? Maybe?
17 Aug 2025
A few scattered thoughts about cheap art
I can’t tell if this is coherent but it’s been on my mind.
12 Aug 2025
Someone please let me know.
9 Jul 2025
Another marginal note on Joan Didion
Political Fictions (2001)
2 Jul 2025
The internet is ugly when it falls apart
On the perceptual experience of link rot.
1 Jul 2025
Comics won't just break your heart
On the unforgiving economics of making comics—and cartoonists’ efforts to change them—in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe
25 Jun 2025
I leave pieces of myself behind
It’s difficult to articulate what gets lost.
22 Jun 2025
A marginal note on Joan Didion
Political Fictions (2001)
18 Jun 2025
'Raid of the Rainbow Lounge' is still relevant
This is kind of a film review but also just a rant.
4 Jun 2025
What use is obsessive journaling?
It’s pointless. I love it and can’t live without it.
28 May 2025
Kamala Harris and the burden of Fortnite
I’m not sure it’s possible to come up with a worse idea.
21 May 2025
Sometimes I turn incoherent thoughts into something like gold
A few notes on writing good.
1 May 2025
Five hundred years of bureaucratic violence
The methods have changed. The cruel essence remains.