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Media Film/TV Not really any movies lately!

Sometimes I’m like I wanna write a blog post but idk what to write about; then I’m like, I should do a weeknotes post but idk aren’t they getting kind of boring and bland (for me to write) and I should try something different; today I guess I wanna write…

We’re nearing the end of August 2026, and I figured it’s time I give up the pipe dream of writing a 2025 recap the way I envisioned a whole year ago.

Some highlights from the last month (ish) About the city I biked along the seawall, which I hadn’t done in a while Watched A couple of World Cup games — Norway vs England, and Spain vs Argentina I finally watched X-Men '97 (season 1), which was good!

Touch Grass went to the local bird sanctuary on Canada Day where, fittingly, I saw a lot of Canada geese and ducks, which followed us around when they saw we were carrying birdseed.

Can I keep doing this weekly??

I took this week off from work and I had wanted to spend the time being wildly productive, but of course reality happened and it was [fart noises] pretty chill instead.

Happy weeknotes number 40!

These days, I am preoccupied with: 1) painting every day for plein airpril; 2) uh, that’s kind of it, actually, I thought there would be more to this list.

I visited the San Francisco Bay Area twice last year, and meant to write about my trips but never got around to it.

I was thinking the other week about how I should write weeknotes more often.

if the layout is messed up in your rss reader, apologies, I did some gruesome CSS stuff—I recommend reading it in your browser.

Don’t tell my boss, but I am thinking about vacation.

Everyone wrote one of these and I wanted to too.

Cool links delphitools is an amazing collection of small, useful tools.

“Unproductive” in this context refers to my many creative projects I wanted to tackle over the holidays.

I start so many things and then talk about them and then don’t finish them.

How I’m spending my time these days and other things I’m thinking about I’ve been excitedly using my 2026 planner (a Hobonichi Weeks, which technically starts in December 2025).

i finally got around to buying and reading comics from this year’s ShortBox Comics Fair and wanted to briefly (very briefly!)

currently got back into stardew valley paused that tho so i could play freak levels of hades 2 (rolled credits today) (lol) listening to hadestown cast recording – saw it in nyc earlier this month and i have thought of nothing else since mourning the end…

that’s it that’s the post

This website I redesigned my website!!!

Everything is fine!

Links A Summer Retrospective by Gracia Ventus in The Rosenrot — a beautiful outfit log!!

antilibrary; intentions; my ideal self; aspirations. stuff on my mind; stuff i want to think about but just not quite yet. i am the ashamed owner of a dozen browser windows, many containing a dozen+ tabs—what is in there??

itsgonnabemay.jpg Current media Reading The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen; next up will be (hopefully, lol) Mỹ Documents by Kevin Nguyen.

Almost April—wtf.

I had grand plans for this post, involving intricate artwork, interesting layouts, and bold colours, but—I lack the willpower to execute on them, this time around.

The big picture goal this year is to take my creative work more seriously.

Thank you Ethan and Gosha for kindly tagging me in this!

not every thought needs to be immortalized on my website been stamping down on my impulse to blather on my website about something stupid in a stupid way, as i already do on social media where it’s FINE because it’s ephemeral there but here it’s like. wri…

Note for RSS readers: I designed a custom blog post layout for this, which won’t display properly in an RSS reader (in fact, it will probably be extremely screwed up), so I encourage reading it on my blog itself.

last weeknotes of the year!

can i be real with you?

Links Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its ‘evil playing cards’, jokes that he should ‘add microtransactions’ like EA Sports FC 25 to ‘lower that rating to a 3+’ by Harvey Randall in PC Gamer — everything I read about LocalThunk fuc…

Twenty-four is a pleasing number, so I feel inclined to make these weeknotes a bit Better, but not by much.

internet links Creating an HTML “spoilers” element with no JS by Sage (wavebeem) Gabriele Pala’s website — omg!!

In general November is the worst month.

note for rss reader enjoyers: this post uses a custom layout, so i recommend reading it on my blog itself. it’ll probably read like hot garbage without the layout (like, hotter garbage than it already is) so what’s all this then ugh, writing this post was…

After aspiring to for the past few years, I finally succeeded in updating my site for Halloween!

An extremely long post because I haven’t written this in a month and there is so much to catch up on.

Reading The Canary by Michael Lewis for The Washington Post. h/t to Geoffrey Adams on mastodon, who introduced it so nicely and incited me to read it: This is a remarkable piece of long-form journalism from the Washington Post about a US federal government

Reading & Links How to draw an owl by Jenn Schiffer platforms.fyi, a rhetorical exhibit by Robin Sloan Responsive Comics by Taylor Hunt Un paseo por Mataró by Javier Arce — beautiful photos, photo log goals… Why I Finally Quit Spotify by Kyle Chayka for T…

I have a bunch of nebulous ideas for my website bouncing around in my head or splattered horribly across Figma files, which would probably all die in obscurity if I don’t get my shit together, but I’ve been somewhat inspired by Jim Nielsen’s post about his

It’s July, and the passage of time continues to be disorienting.

Truthfully, there is not much to recap from the past couple of weeks because I spent all of my time playing Destiny.

Reading Blurry Type on Stealing Rocks — ooh CSS effect oooh Canonize: Creating a Personal Canon Template by Brendan Schlagel — ‘personal canon’ is a good term…i have a half-assed ‘influences’ page I should work on Coding my Handwriting by Amy Goodchild –…

I was clicking around Pinterest and fell into the rabbit hole of editorial illustration (very cool, wish that were me (some day)) and then homage covers of The New Yorker.

website I finally made a new homepage, and wrote about it in my last blog post. links Art in the Pre-Apocalypse by Jacob Geller – a video essay!

Earlier this week, I published a new homepage (version noir), which takes the form of a comic.