G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y
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 absolutely phenomenal.
Hmm, not as smooth as I'd like. Rotation's kinda bumpy, but not bad.
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...
The Retro Sci-Fi: GIF Edition reminded me of all the animated gifs I had once...
Fun Andy Weir interview, whose books I never read.
The chair is finally complete! It would seem that it was being assembled for...
I am a terrible multitasker.
Okay so today I decided to get a little too aspirational with the would-be...
One of my pet peeves of living in America was how fresh herbs were treated like...
Eyeing my reading corner aspirationally until Ikea get their shit together and...
WORKSTREAM:
Better start to the morning today: Exercise followed by a chickpea scramble,...
RADAR:
My friends at Radix Co-op are debuting THE SOLAR GRID box-set at Printed...
It has been a week of strange, slow-paced sci-fi from the 70s at the Ganzeer...
This floor-lamp I ordered from Ikea (The KLÖVING) refused to adequately screw...
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...
Still in house-planning mode; found myself measuring all the things I'd like to...
Today, we really shall dedicate the day to tidying up because the studio is in...
Today was supposed to be my day of tidying up to the sound of soft music, but I...
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...
One of the great things about attending scholarly conferences--aside from all...
I guess it's a facet of being in your 40s; childhood memories you had long...
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,...
Ampersound creates audiovisual non-fiction stories with a particular emphasis...
There's a bit in Robert Rodriguez's interview with Quentin Tarantino where...
The world's first digital nomad: One Planet Journey interviews Steven K.
Dresden presentation in the can.
"I left Egypt alone.
Lords save me from this nonsense.
What do Norman Mailer and Charles Dickens have in common? - Crimereads.
Lots of boring accounting and excel sheets today.
Bryan Johnson on eliminating death in an interview for the Interesting Times...
Did a fun collab with Dominic Boyer for the delightfully demented Elon...
For the record, the only agents I have representing my work are Booklyn; who...
The latest newsletter finally went out.
Looking at STRANGE DAYS again.
Sent off the new REVISED & EXPANDED edition of THE SOLAR GRID to everyone who...
First thing I noticed was the missing pattern on old man Kovsky's headdress in...
Two days without showing up was very unlike her.
A few more pix from the archive this morning:
One of the surest ways to infuse my existence with misery is to sit me in front...
Excited to announce that my long time Emmy-award-winning friend Yasmin Elayat...
Above: Not a fictional character, not from TV or film, but a real live person.
Fantastic documentary on Enki Bilal from Standart.
STATUS + Proof of life.
Popped up on my radar; A couple reader reviews of DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION...
They have advertising screens above urinals now?
-Istanbul first week of July.
Based exclusively on downloads, it looks like THE SOLAR GRID has readers in...
Occult rituals in the Epstein files.
After popular demand, the complete THE SOLAR GRID graphic novel is now...
Accidentally started a new project somehow.
Twelve hours at the writing desk.
Two scenes and 1400 words later, I now remember how exhausting writing fiction...
Having finished the entirely visual PROJECT ROSEWATER, and in need of a serious...
Reading Taha Hussein's "Adeeb" from 1935, I came across a line describing...
"Wow! This is incredible! Unfortunately, I don't think we're quite the right...
Whichbook: Rather than browse books by genre or author, browse books by mood.
Returnee Blues #1, 2026 - Mixed Media on paper, 50 cm x 65 cm | 19.6" x 25.6"
"[Lithium ion batteries are] the story of oil in the 21st century." -- Vital...
Humbled to see that THE SOLAR GRID has been getting a fair degree of scholarly...
INSURGENT THOUGHT: Downloadable library of digital books on philosophy,...
STATUS
My plan was to dive into PROJECT HOURGLASS by May 1st, but I'm not yet done...
One of the highlights of the Manshur event I participated in a few days ago was...
Looks like drawing endless waste and debris is becoming something of an...
August will see six academics at the top of their game come together in Dresden...
Anything you might be seeing on the news about the U.S.
Finished reading Greenblatt's THE SWERVE.
"In 1378, two years before Poggio's birth, the seething resentment of these...
"Ancient Greeks and Romans did not share our idealization of isolated geniuses,...
Upon reading what I felt was an absolute throwaway book--THE COMMONSENSE OF...
"This book (The Solar Grid) is a singular voice, unique in its eclectic mix of...
Almost 3:00pm and I've already been awake for 12 hours.
"The gates at 168 Isabella Avenue opened to a $13 million estate she’d bought...
"Well I got sick and threw up after my phone was stolen because of anxiety."
Wide awake at 2:00 am today; the long journey of overcoming jetlag begins.
Because I have something like 400 books stored in Houston, a few of which I'd...
Within a day of receiving a most enviable introduction for THE SOLAR GRID, a...
Got a haircut the other day and I noticed the barber had the sniffles.
One of the things I'm sad about having dropped in 2025 is my vomitbook habit.
It's been a strange week.
Spoke to soon: Awoke at 3:00am for no apparent reason, so decided to burn the...
Lost most of the morning to kitchen counter drama; It arrived with the wrong...
The days of springing out of bed and getting right to it are long behind me.
Someone I don't know came up to me at the New Year's Eve party I attended and...
Bathed her today and, surprisingly, she still doesn't hate me.
Got the typewriter to work!
It's been a while since I blogged.
6 pages to color and 33 to letter.
Happy to see the fine folks at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco...
Issue #226 of the RESTRICTED FREQUENCY newsletter dropped a few days ago.
Inking is done.
9 pages worth of inks to go.
AFAC announces new grant round under the banner Ecologies of Culture
8:30 am.
Comics and the Atomic Bomb from 1945-1955: Hank Kennedy for the Comics Journal
"Refugees alone, a tiny proportion of all immigrants to the U.S., produced $124...
"It does no good to complain about the weather." -- Tony Gilroy interviewed by...
Grants, residencies, and open calls for artists:
The Sample: Newsletter and directory aimed to help subscribers discover other...
"Write to entertain yourself first.
"Sometime around 1957, in a fluorescent-lit lab at the University of Wisconsin,...