Kaijuville

First: hi, this is the official Kaijuville entree into RSS Club.

I drew the cartoon above from a photograph that turned twenty years old last month.

Mages & Modems is a memoir by writer-podcaster-developer vga256, and one I enjoyed very much.

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The name of this post comes from a swap I made with Zachary Kai, a thoughtful writer and blogger who kindly explained how his Title Traders directory works and agreed to help me try it out.

One of the two creatures depicted above is Garmegula, a giant lizard I made up many years ago because I wanted to write some very short allegories about very tall monsters.

If you thought “oh cool!”

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This is mostly a newsletter about circumventing the capital-a algorithm, but even I must acknowledge that a backwards clock is right four times a day.

Before we get to anything else in this post, I’m asking you to open up a new tab—better yet, a whole new window—and put Lucy Bellwood’s extraordinary comic The Scale of a Man in it.

I had friends over last week for my first-ever LAN party.

Juha-Matti Santala suggested the topic of love letters to his readers last week, and I’m glad he did, because it helped shake something loose in my head.