John Gerace

My biggest vice growing up was loafing on the couch and flipping through TV channels.

Welcome to the first installment of a semi-annual roundup of short thoughts on books I’ve read, but either haven’t had time to or couldn’t be arsed to write something longer. ✦   The Fall of Babel - Josiah Bancroft   ✦ The fourth and final installment of…

I have a compulsion to make stuff.

Apparently everything is toxic: clothes shed microplastic, heat-printed receipts are coated in BPA, black plastic kitchen utensils might contain fire retardants†The paper overstated the content by a factor of 10 and was subsequently corrected, but still!

My sister once gave me a set of beautiful notebooks with thick, acid-free paper and lovely patterned covers.

I should be wracked by internal conflict.

In the lean months of 2024, when I was unemployed and companies declined to acknowledge my existence, I couldn’t concentrate on writing.

See the orrery!

I’ve had the opportunity over the years to meet some famous people I really admired, mostly writers of some sort at readings or conventions or just in the course of grad school.

I’ve had my Framework laptop since November 2025, and I’ve been using it daily, but a lot of the reviews I encountered before buying it didn’t really seem to address the stuff that gets a little annoying, most of which wouldn’t have been a deal breaker, b…