Month: December 2021

  • throw glance / throw salt

    It’s the time of year when we reflect—whether publicly or privately, or both—on the year gone by. There are so many angles one could take, even in a “normal” year, but this has not been a normal year, either personally or more broadly. I am however going to avoid publicly reflecting on the elephant (or…

  • Books read 2021

    This is the first year I’ve actually kept a proper tally of the books I’ve read; as such, I’m not sure how representative (or not) it is of my usual reading habits. (In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s not that representative, given I started keeping track when my mishap at the end of January ensured…

  • 17DEC21 / accessions

    Bumper batch from PM Press. Somewhat less of a bargain after the import tax, mind you… and for reasons unexplained the package was to be collected from a location half an hour by bike from my actual address, way out on the edge of the city. But hey, I needed the exercise.

  • epistemic seismology

    The always insightful Ryan Oakley wrestles with reality: Some stories may seem more true than others, some more pleasing, and others more dangerous, but no matter how true, beautiful or deadly, they are stories. Our reality is woven from stories –tales invented by readers just as much as authors– and our personalities are only stories…