G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y

A few years back, Ahmed Naji (author of ROTTEN EVIDENCE), asked me to provide an illustration for an awesome short speculative satire he wrote for Art of the Working Class.

I may have unlocked promotional god mode.

Samsung's Z Flip3 has been my phone of choice for the past 5 years.

Shit, I can hardly log in to anything right now.

DIGGER is phenomenal.

Hmm, not as smooth as I'd like.

A pre-order page for THE SOLAR GRID hardback has been created.

Delightful morning.

Studio has been cleansed, garden plants washed, and newsletter scheduled for Saturday.

The Retro Sci-Fi: GIF Edition reminded me of all the animated gifs I had once created for the first iteration of TIMES NEW HUMAN, the format of which was web-based.

Fun Andy Weir interview, whose books I never read.

The chair is finally complete!

I am a terrible multitasker.

Okay so today I decided to get a little too aspirational with the would-be reading corner.

One of my pet peeves of living in America was how fresh herbs were treated like gold.

Eyeing my reading corner aspirationally until Ikea get their shit together and restock the chair's cushioning, which they only informed me was out of stock the day of delivery.

WORKSTREAM: Got to see proofs for issue 2 of ELON magazine, which features my collab with Dominic Boyer, and it's fantastic!

Better start to the morning today: Exercise followed by a chickpea scramble, together with cottage cheese mixed up with diced tomato and kalamata olives and a side of cucumber.

THE SOLAR GRID makes The Markaz Review's The Anthropocene Book List, a handsome list of 10 very fine books that I am humbled to see my demented graphic novel share company with.

My friends at Radix Co-op are debuting THE SOLAR GRID box-set at Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair as we speak.

It has been a week of strange, slow-paced sci-fi from the 70s at the Ganzeer cinema this week for some reason: 1.

This floor-lamp I ordered from Ikea (The KLÖVING) refused to adequately screw onto its damn base.

I must be completely mad.

At long last, I now have a physical film library again.

Fantastic video essay on Steven Spielberg's MUNICH, which I haven't seen since the first watch when it came out.

Still in house-planning mode; found myself measuring all the things I'd like to have stored away that presently have no place to live and are thus resulting in abundant clutter.

Today, we really shall dedicate the day to tidying up because the studio is in such a mess and in dire need of cleansing.

Today was supposed to be my day of tidying up to the sound of soft music, but I ended up getting sucked into planning and designing all the things I'd like to have built at the home studio.

Drafting tomorrow's newsletter.

Season 3 of SILO ended with the media equivalent of being blue-balled.

Someone at the conference took a jab at TRANSCENDENCE, a film I had never heard of and thus decided to watch despite its horrendous ratings.

One of the great things about attending scholarly conferences—aside from all the really smart people you meet—is the treasure trove of book recommendations you get.

I guess it's a facet of being in your 40s; childhood memories you had long forgotten come back in fragmented chards.

Bootlegged THE SOLAR GRID!

Mark Millar interviewing Traves Charest is so great.

Koshary's kittens have all scurried off to explore the world, save for Tiger, who has decided to make the garden his domain.

Ampersound creates audiovisual non-fiction stories with a particular emphasis on the power of sound.

There's a bit in Robert Rodriguez's interview with Quentin Tarantino where Tarantino admits to being affected by how much of a commercial flop GRINDHOUSE turned out to be, and goes on to laugh about how Rodriguez doubled down and proceeded to come out with