It can be very nice to have family nearby, whatever the occasion, however long or short.

Took my first trip to Cape Cod last week. It's pretty much exactly what I imagined: beautiful, pleasantly boring, charming. I took Amtrak there and remembered that I don't use it enough. It's so very nice to sit by the window with your book or laptop or whatever and just zip across the landscape with zero effort. If we ever leave the northeast, I'll miss the trains a lot.

I was in Cape Cod for a work retreat. The company I joined with 60-something teammates is now six or seven times as large. I am the grizzled veteran among a bunch of younger and newer hires. I hope I can be as chill and kind and wise and encouraging as the older colleagues that helped me find my feet earlier in my career. An enriching and exhausting experience, lucky to have it, hope we'll do it again.

Travel hack: a slice of pizza in plastic wrap packs easily, tastes great at all temps.

Art

The Barbed Noose with the Mice, watercolor and gouache on paper by Paul Klee. Victorian Interior I, oil on canvas by Horace Pippin. The Triumph of Fame, Netherlandish tapestry in wool and silk. Ear ornament with winged runner in gold, turquoise, sodalite and shell from the Moche cultures of Peru.

Books

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors, continued...

Running

Trail runs in Cape Cod were nice, and simply having the time to run for longer in the mornings. When I'm packing I always resent the extra bulk from the running shoes and clothes, but always so glad to have it.

Around the Web

Clout as a service. Always a great time to stop following lifestyle influencers.

The internet has no benches. "Like guerrilla public improvement projects put benches in public spaces, repopulate foliage in neglected intersections, or transform dumping sites into neighborhood gathering spots, we can also retrofit and reshape our digital space."

"The truth is that I went to Singapore because of the playgrounds." and How Singapore builds playground culture.

Historic bird's-eye view drawings of New York City.

Heatmapping New York City travel times.

Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise.

Farmers and foragers.

The git commands I avoided for nine years.

Music

Tristan Perich, Ensemble 0, Open Symmetry. Three vibraphones, electronics, and 20 speakers. It's great.

Daniel Avery, Drone Logic. Trippy high-energy acid/house or whatever. Also great. "These Nights Never End" is instant stank-face. "Simulrec" covers the washy, flow-ier side of the spectrum.

Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, J.S. Bach: Transformations. Bach! Harpsichord! I think I have a new perspective on the Adagio from the D minor concerto, BWV 974.

Movies

Dream Lover. Erotic thriller, femme fatale, etc.. It's fun, and I loved the weird dream-state interludes.

Absolutely Anything. Harmless little scifi comedy. It has its moments.

To Die For. Dark satire, femme fatale, etc.. If Elle from Legally Blonde had an evil streak. Like Dream Lover above, I appreciate proper opening credits!

Insidious. This did nothing for me! We all have different fears, I guess.

TV

The X-Files, s6e9 "S.R. 819". Love a Skinner episode. Nanobots, Mike Tyson references, and frickin' Krychek.

Hannibal, s3e9. "Even if you know the state of who you are today, you can't predict who you'll be tomorrow. You're defined up to now, not beyond."

Big Little Lies, s1e5.

Lord of the Flies (2026), s1e1. Refreshing to see a show with a distinctive look and feel, with the queasy fisheye and shallow focus distortion. I think the characterization in this episode is forcing our sympathies a bit, but I wonder if that will shift as the series goes on.

Hitting a patch of seasonal depression, I realized a few weeks late. Tally up the symptoms and recognize I've been through this before. Remembering when to ignore myself, to keep doing the good things that get me to the other side in one piece.

We took the train up to Greenwich, CT this weekend. Breakfast at Méli-Mélo hit the spot. The main destination was The Bruce Museum, which was more than I'd hoped, rewarded the visit. Greenwich the town was what I expected (suspected?). Not for me, and that's okay.

Art

Baigneuse (sur les galets), oil on canvas by Georges Braque. I've seen so much of the canonical Andy Warhol stuff that I tend to breeze right by it in museums, so seeing his hand-colored flowers was a breath of fresh air. Number 311D, wood, compressed cotton, and pulped paper on paper by Leonardo Drew. She Offered You a Garden, quilt by Sarah Nsikak.

Books

On the Calculation of Volume, Book III. Breezed through this one. Strangely plain yet mesmerizing like the previous two. Loving how each book takes a particular lens on the situation – seasons, relationships, responsibility to society.

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors. Need to pick up again.

Running

A bit of active recovery and reset. More weights to shore up weaknesses revealed on previous harder runs.

Around the Web

To all my teachers, a beautiful collection of memories.

What have you tried? and Do ten times as much.

"The dailiness of it meant that I knew I’d do it again the next day, and it took pressure off whatever I was working on right then. Nothing was final. It was all part of an ongoing conversation and observation I was having with the woods."

Names that increased in popularity from 2024 to 2025.

In reading about the Celtic cultures and what led up to them, I learned about rare golden hats and the Ogham alphabet, which has a great look.

Let moms have Waymo. Reduced labor, increased safety. I'd guess there's a tradeoff with bonding/together-time, which I also guess would vary with age, but maybe the rewards come in other forms – rest, independence, etc..

Emotional regulation is a dying art and "The social return to a positive world view, and avoiding negative emotional contagion, never has been higher."

Maximizers and focusers.

Walter Tschinkel used molten aluminum to create 3D maps of ant colony architecture.

Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns.

"Not only does walking speed typically decrease with age, greater levels of hearing loss are linked with slower walking speed for adults of all ages."

Music

From Brian Reitzell, the soundtracks for the Hannibal TV show...

• Season One, Vol. 1
• Season One, Vol. 2
• Season Two, Vol. 1
• Season Two, Vol. 2
• Season Three, Vol. 1, I think my favorite of the set.
• Season Three, Vol. 2

A couple more from Jon Hopkins (a bright spot in my 2025 listening)...

• Contact Note. I like how "Second Sense, starts with "Spem in alium", nice.
• Insides

Tristan Perich, Drift Multiply for 50 Violins and 50-channel 1-bit Electronics. I eat this up. Love how things disintegrate into static every now and then.

Movies

The Last Witch Hunter. I don't watch a lot of witchy/fantasy material. Really like how earthy and creepy the magic is here, the other-worldliness of the visuals.

Send Help. I think it dawdles a bit when it should race, but love a good villainous turn.

TV

The X-Files, s6e8 "The Rain King". Fun! Lighthearted matchmaking, sentimental Wizard of Oz vibes.

American Gladiators (1991), s3e26. I was obsessed with this show as a kid. Fun to rewatch. People were different in the '90s, and sportscasting has come a long way.

CSI: Miami, s5e6.

Had a bit of a minor reset this week: new glasses, new shirts, new pants on the way. Reinvention by acquisition!

I managed to unblock myself a bit at work recently. Brain feeling too bottled up, fragmented, sludgy. I think it happened because – I'm mildly ashamed to say – I made myself focus more and also let go of knowing about other things. Always pride myself on having my finger on the pulse but, if I get more of what I want done, it's probably worth learning about things a few hours later.

This morning I had the house to myself for a few hours. I didn't do anything that different. Coffee, chores, breakfast, music. But I felt myself expanding and unshriveling a bit, easing into a larger container. It makes a difference.

Art

Embroidered hanging of wool on linen depicting a pomegranate tree, roses and other flowers, foliage and birds by May Morris. A crib and another crib by Keith Haring. Tres figuras danzando, gouache on cardstock by Victor Brauner. Celebration of el dia de los muertos in Xalitla, Guerrero, acrylic painting by Cleofas Ramirez Celestino.

Books

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors. I knew generally about all the viking incursions into England in the early middle ages, but don't think I appreciated the how deep and lasting the impact has been.

Running

Back into my rhythm for now. Took a while to get revved up again on my morning runs. Also pushed it a bit too much on the weekend long run after my down week last week, but no regrets, just a little creaky.

Around the Web

"There are a lot of instances on the internet where people are telling their story, but the audience is hearing a roadmap. And the gap between those two things is where the mud happens."

American mushroom farming is on the decline.

American fatherhood on the rise.

Are movies getting darker? and Why movies don't feel real anymore.

What goes into designing art exhibitions.

What makes art great?

Disappearing book reviews and disappearing paperback nonfiction.

Vacation brain.

Music

Several with James McVinnie on the organ...

• Bach, Clavier-Übung III. I love all the layers in "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Zorn Gottes wandt", BWV 688, just incredible. (And I didn't know that Martin Luther wrote hymns!)
• Dreamcatcher. "The Unquestioned Answer" is a favorite here, shout-out Charles Ives.
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Organ Works

Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere. I think I'll say "Rhinestoned" is my favorite for now.

Movies

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Deeply uncomfortably nihilistic and grisly, and then pleasantly unhinged. Iron Maiden! Fiennes is a gem.

The Town. Third time I've seen it (first, second). Noticing more slice-of-life Boston this time around.

Bone Lake. This was just okay. Props for at least one jaw-dropping moment I've never seen on film before. Learning that I prefer horror with more supernatural menace, and less of the sadistic/zany human sort.

TV

The X-Files, s6e7 "Terms of Endearment". Some episodes can be intense, but they don't usually get into material this dark/traumatic. Interesting!

Hannibal, s3e8.

Big Little Lies, s1e4.

Last week I traveled to the Bay Area, adding layers a place I know pretty well (4-5 trips?) but not deeply. Time in Palo Alto, and San Ramón, and Oakland, and SF. Managed to visit five museums visits and two public libraries while we were out there. Libraries in particular are a good way to get a sense of the community. (Oakland is not happy with ICE right now!)

I also got sick a few days after we arrived, and it all came crashing down. I was hoping to work from one of our SF offices, but ended up holed up in the hotel for several days, working from a blanket mere blocks away so as not to infect everyone.

Speaking of hotels, a soapbox: by and large, today's "nice" hotels have have overly-soft beds! It's one thing to have a squishy mattress, but then also the extra padded top, and then putting a padded bedsheet on top of that? People, come on. I'm over 40! I need more support! And then covering it with floofy down comforter? It's a recipe for overheating. Gotta rethink this whole thing from the ground up.

Art

Preserve Your Peace, acrylic on canvas over wood panel by Greg Ito. Foothill Cabin, oil on canvas by Pacita Abad. Where Dreams Flow, handmade pigments on linen by Rupy C. Tut. Coup de Chapeau II, painted and patinated bronze by Roy Lichtenstein. Textile Fresco, linen, silk, cotton, and synthetic fiber by Sheila Hicks

Books

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom. Finished. Very detailed and meticulous. Gave me new appreciation for: how much cultural blending was taking place at the time and how big that world was, even though travel was atrocious; how much organization / bureaucracy there was even in the olden days... but also how power on paper ≠ power on the ground. Also fun: historians using basically meeting agendas/roll call to identify social climbers vs. who was falling out of favor among the elite. Interesting for the historical period, but also a good view into how history gets done. There is cleverness in every job done well.

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors. Just begun. Seems like the breezy counterpart to the previous.

Running

Had a nice run in Palo Alto, but then too sick to do any others while I was in the Bay. Alas! Saw some new streets in East Flatbush on a long run this weekend.

Around the Web

"God created you with 3 Claude skill files and you're supposed to figure out when to call consequentialism, deontology, & virtue ethics. Make no mistakes".

Who shows at the Whitney Biennial. (Thanks, Jara.)

Jazz based on the flow of NYC subway cars.

A stroll through the Mall of America.

Eames kit house.

"When you decide what to consume, you ask: 'What do I want?'. When you decide what to produce, you ask: 'What do other people want me to do?'. The former is a lot more individuating than the latter."

The people do not yearn for automation.

Music

Kali Malone, The Sacrificial Code

Sam Gendel, Josiah Steinbrick, Mouthfeel / Serene

Tristan Perich, Infinity Gradient perf. James McVinnie.

Following on the promise of week 14... Mathieu David Gagnon, Flore Laurentienne, Volume III. I like "Navigation VII" and "(À travers les) Chablis"

Movies Ratatouille. It's fine? This might be a victim of hearing so many good things about it for so long before I got to it. Didn't land at all. Also too much swirly moving camera.

Frybread Face and Me. Some stilted acting but a good heart.

Love, Brooklyn. Maybe some home court bias, and I love pointing at the screen like Leo when I recognize local places, but I really liked it. Several views on several key relationships, and we get to see them sympathetically from each side. Benefits from the compression in a shorter film. "Don't say it." Bittersweet, hopeful. Andrê Holland reliable as always, but Nicole Beharie especially stood out. Perhaps pair with Past Lives?

X-Men: Days of Future Past. Better than expected! I like how we have several ~villains to work with here.

The Outfit. Still good but lost some of the zip the first time had. Narration like The Prestige now that I think of it.

TV

The X-Files, s6e6 "How the Ghost Stole Christmas". This was fun! I like this kinda silliness. Lean into the cliches and heightened storytelling and you get someting special.

Hannibal, s3e7. So glad the Verger arc is winding down.

Big Little Lies, s1e3.

CSI: Miami, s4e16.

I've gotten back into coding more recently. Well, vibe-coding. Maybe that's the right speed for me. I coooooooouuuuuuld learn more, and incrementally I do, sniffing around the edges. But lately a more mercenary approach from zero to one. Did some work to update a browser extension and other tools for work stuff, updating my white noise app from late last year, and moving this blog to 11ty for no particular reason. It's fun!

Last week I went to the A's–Yankees game. It felt weird being at that stadium, enemy territory for a kid who went through a period of staunch Braves loyalty. But a lovely night out. I think that's my fifth or sixth MLB stadium – two in Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, and San Francisco, and a handful in the minor leagues.

I also went to the dentist. I miss my old one, even if she did try to sell me whitening treatments all the time. At least I could count on some gospel music.

Not much can top a sunny Sunday morning stroll in the city with a little coffee in your system.

Books

On the Calculation of Volume, Book II. Finished up. The container theory of time is right there out in the open huh. What about all the Roman stuff though?

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom So far, so good.

Running

More consistent than previous, and by Friday morning, I could feel it all adding up. Fun long run into new-to-me parts of Queens.

Around the Web

Portraits of father and sons holding hands. (via)

How 'Zombie Flow' Took Over Culture.

Touring the mannequin storage room at FIT.

A catalog of AI writing tropes.

I didn't know Café du Monde has been open since 1862.

A Bay Area travelogue.

Music

Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, Tragic Magic. Including a cover from the Blade Runner soundtrack.

Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer, Recordings from the Åland Islands.

Blake Clawson, Renova New Music Ensemble, Aric Vyhmeister, Peyton Magalhaes, Myrkvun. There's a melody in "Haust" that I can't quite place. It sounds so similar to something, just can't put my finger on it. Maybe a tune from Holst, Grainger, Delius, Vaughan Williams?

Dianna Lopez, Earth Expressions. Nature + kora, guitar, etc.

Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20 in D minor K.466 & No. 27 in B-flat Major, K.595 perf. Mitsuko Uchida with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Movies

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. I like how reality bends and blends. Good to see Rose Byrne's comedic talent used for something much darker, but often still funny.

Boiling Point. Stressful little ensemble piece with a lot of empathy. Really growing to appreciate Stephen Graham.

TV

The X-Files, s6e5 "Dreamland II".

Hannibal, s3e6. The reunion scene! "If I saw you everyday, forever, Will, I would remember this time." The romance you don't want to see (but kinda do?).

Big Little Lies, s1e1–2. Let's see where this leads...

I went to the eye doctor and faced mortality. I don't right now, but someday in the next year or two or three, I will need bifocals.

Art
Wild Beast Wood, painting by Sidney Sime. Basketball (Convention Hall, Philadelphia), 1935 watercolor by Michael Leone. Monuments at G., gypsum and watercolor on canvas by Paul Klee. Moomin and the Mymble paint an Easter egg by Tove Jansson. Collages made from ecurity envelope patterns by Amber Williams (via, via).

Books
War and Peace. Done! Finished in a hot sprint before March came to a close. I think the latter parts of the book dragged. Much more focus on the warfront, troop movements, and theory-of-history essays. I was itching for closure on the characters we started the story with. I'd read it again, in abridged form.

On the Calculation of Volume, Book II.

Running
Dialing back just a tad on the mileage. First proper warm-ish run in the city this year on Saturday morning, t-shirt and shorts. It's going to take some adjustment.

Around the Web
Title Scream, graphics from 80s–90s videogames.

Akira Kurosawa's painted storyboards. And here are more side-by-side Kurosawa paintings and stills.

The visual language and fashion in Sailor Moon.

A family genealogy project turns into a personal encyclopedia.

Those frogs that hang out in trees and chirp are called pinkletinks in some regions, spring peepers in others. "Their Latin name, pseudacris crucifer, can reveal a lot, […]. Pseudo means false in Latin, and cris denotes cricket or locust."

The Ozempicization of the Economy and Body Futurism

Stop trying to make me buy a house.

"We are all made smaller by the pursuit of unproven and unprovable purity."

"Strong works of art exceed any single paraphrase of their meaning. They remain open enough to support serious disagreement."

Black Bart was a stagecoach robber with a grudge against Wells Fargo.

Music
Highlight from my listening week was an almost-trio of albums from Mathieu David Gagnon:

• Volume I. I love the toothy strings in "Fleuve I" and the way the anxiety ratchets up and up and up in "1991".
• Volume II. "Voiles" is a nice little romance and "Navigation IV" maybe even more so.
• Volume III (soon!)

Nilam, Ganavya. I like "Land".

Atabasca, Atabasca. It has some Hermanos Gutiérrez flavor, but a bit more variety in sonic palette.

Tomaga, Intimate Immensity.

Fazer, "Khanda".

Movies
Crime 101. Ah, such fun! Mashes up a bunch of things I love but a bit more than a simple reheat, pun intended. I love seeing Hemsworth so bottled up and socially awkward. I will watch again some day.

TV
The X-Files, s6e4 "Dreamland". Not sure these early-season two-parters work for me. I do like the switcheroo, though!

Hannibal, s3e5.

Some highs, some lows, forward we go.

Art
This weekend: various Keith Haring artworks at the Brant Foundation. Bank of the IJssel near Hattem, painting by Jan Voerman.

Books
War and Peace. 87% through. So close.

Around the Web
I should build a Superchair.

On expanding awareness around emotions.

For the love of God, learn to paragraph and Why LLMs are good editors but bad writers.

Music
Suzy Sheer, Euphoriphilia and The One. Echoes of Crystal Castles (compliment).

GoGo Penguin, Between Two Waves

Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin:

• Ghosted
• Ghosted II
• Ghosted III

Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim, Placelessness.

Movies
The Naked Spur. Really liked this western, sort of a moving chamber piece. James Stewart as greedy bounty hunter, Robert Ryan's sly intellectual villain needling him along, like we later see in 3:10 to Yuma. Protagonist sort of crumbles rather than triumphs into a better state. We hope.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. It doesn't work for me, but it's fine. I have no attachment to the TV show, so I'm not the audience anyway. At least I know what a toff is now.

TV
The X-Files, s6e3 "Triangle". The will-they-or-won't-they has been answered… sort of.

Hannibal, s3e3–4. Everyone using each other to sharpen their motivations.

DuckTales (1987), s1e1. "Uhhhh yes and no, Uncle Donald".

One of the highlights of the last week is "hobby night", where we took a couple hours just to scratch a creative itch. I pulled out my new loom and weaved a couple inches of progress. Then pulled out my old guitar, basically the first time in several years.

One thing that struck me was just more awareness of my body, in a different way than the everyday stuff I can do on auto-pilot – laptop work, cooking, running, chores. When weaving, so often something would feel difficult and I'd realize it's because my shoulders had gotten all scrunched up, or posture was wacky, or fingers too tense. (It also felt difficult because I'm new and bad at it.) Ditto when playing guitar. I know enough to get too far ahead of myself, so I had to stop, rewind, force myself back to basics: focus on simple finger placement, just enough tension, making clean transitions, staying relaxed, etc..

The creative outlet felt really good. Keep your hobbies available to you!

Books
War and Peace. Down to the last 30%.

Running
Trying to find my morning flow again. Still not adjusted to the time change, and it's been hard to get through everything efficiently. For the weekend long run, more exploration in Bushwick/Ridgewood.

Around the Web
A glimpse of my future, I hope: "Years may wrinkle skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

Middlemarch is a novel about sympathising with everyone and The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch. (Thanks James!)

The Best Guide to the AI Revolution May Be Victorian Fiction.

What do Americans consider immoral?

It seems that youth sports promote zero-sum thinking in parents.

"Humans tend to over-index on this presumed precision of language, as if it were like a laser pointer aimed at a Rembrandt. It’s more like lobbing water balloons at cave shadows."

American Diner Gothic.

Music
Ivo Jannsen, Mallet Collective Amsterdam, Canto Ostinato: Live at the Concertgebouw.

Oren Ambarchi, Shebang. The momentum in "III" makes me want to get stuff done.

Biosphere, The Way of Time. I like the bass pulsing in "Like the End of the World".

Little John, Sly & Robbie, Give Thanks and Praise.

Three works by Anton Bruckner, from Orchestre de la Suisse Romande cond. Marek Janowski. Bruckner remains an unsolved puzzle...

• Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101
• Symphony No. 2 in C minor, WAB 102
• Mass No. 3 in F minor, WAB 28. The fifth movement Benedictus may be the only thing that stuck with me.

Three from Scott Tennant and his classical guitar...

• The Segovia Sessions
• Mysterious Barricades
• Wild Mountain Thyme – Celtic Music for Guitar. When the title track came on I thought, "Hey I know that from somewhere…"

Movies
Best in Show. DNF. Couldn't hang with it. The quirky characters semd to trend in the same direction, maybe the tone flattening them. Too unmotivated to reel me in this time.

Sorry, Wrong Number. Loved this one! Suspense and intrigue, and an immobile protagonist like Rear Window a few years later. NYC movies hit different when you've lived here a while.

After Hours. Fun little film. Scorsese! A weird-as-dreams or sharper-than-life Oz-/Odyssey-like attempt to get back home over the course of a long night, thwarted again and again.

The Pelican Brief. Solid thriller. Roberts and Denzel just leap off the screen in ways that few others do.

TV
The X-Files, s6e2 "Drive". Really fun episode, great pace.

Hannibal, s3e1–2

Last week I went back home. Visited old friends, bopped around Atlanta, got my Waffle House fix, sat for an impromptu photoshoot, walked by a lake, walked in the woods, worked for a few days from my parents' house, ate too much, slept too late, went on gentle hikes, and explored some parts of the state I'd never been to before.

Hadn't had a proper museum visit this year, so we fixed that thrice over at the Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Tech, Emory's Carlos Museum, and the Etowah Archaeological Museum at Etowah Indian Mounds. Also paid a visit to the New Echota historic site. The mounds were the coolest of the set – just about every place on Earth has the echoes of a previous civilization…

Coming back home with a full heart, and very pleasantly tired.

Art
Seated male figure in basalt from the Cartago-La Cabaña cultures.

Books
War and Peace.

Running
Very glad I took my running shoes with me on my trip. Didn't run as much as I initially thought I would, but there's no outlet like it, and came back home in better shape than I usually do after week-long trips.

Around the Web
There is nothing about being a parent that isn’t a cliché.

Reviving Atlanta's south downtown neighborhood.

"You can’t have craft without being at peace with pride and embarrassment existing."

"Have Oscar voters’ tastes improved since I was a teenager, or have I become a boring, middle-aged establishmentarian who likes boring, competent movies?"

UTF-8, Explained Simply.

How to end your extremely-online era. "Most of a good life is simply refusing to do what is bad."

2026 is 20% complete.

Music
Catrin FInch, Seckou Kaita, SOAR. The kora is such a good instrument. "Listen to the Grass Grow".

Ishmael Ensemble, A State of Flow.

A few from Erik Hall…

• Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato. Really sings in
  "Sections 31–40".
• Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians. One of the best from one of the best.
• Solo Three

Movies
Peter Rabbit. Pleasantly charming, good for a couple laughs.

TV
The X-Files, s6e1 "The Beginning".

Dark, s2e4-8. Second season complete.

Pokémon: Indigo League, s1e2. The plot didn't do much for me but at least the theme song rips.

Last week was Sunday afternoon reggae into Sunday evening blizzard. It's nice to feel cozy inside while outside is chaos. But you have to take care to get back out again.

Last year I went to a weaving workshop. This year I got a loom. Just a small one to scratch the itch. Now the question is figuring out where this thing fits in my life. I feel like it'll be a great evening time-passer.

My latest lifehack – from lazy accident – is doing (some of) my chores on weekdays. It's a great way to wind down productively – engaged, but not stressed – and helps the weekends feel more spacious.

Art
Far Echo, Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, acrylic on canvas on board by George Morrison. There's some really, really cool stuff in the QuiltCon 2026 Winners Gallery.

Books
War and Peace.

Running
I've now run every street in Red Hook. ✔️

Around the Web
Redefining makeovers.

"Phoniness wasn’t a sign I was fundamentally, intrinsically unworthy of my aspirations. Phoniness was, in fact, an essential part of any aspirational project."

How to get into something new.

How to make use of books you don't read. "You do not always know where to find what you are looking for."

Research as leisure activity.

A British explorer’s quest to reach all the middles of nowhere.

The nine lives of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle.

Saturday Storm, poem by Phyllis McGinley.

I love the format for Jennifer Mills' weekly updates.

Why Are So Many Teen Girls Still Tearing Their A.C.L.s?

"At this point, how many more leggings can we buy?"

Music
Listened to a few from Sly & Robbie, after learning of Sly Dunbar's death. It all sort of blurs together for me, but it's a good vibe.

• Hordcore Dub
• The Unmetered Taxi
• Crucial Reggae
• Raiders of the Lost Dub
• The Sting

Biosphere, Shenzhou. Good one! Moody and floaty and slow. Listen: "Ancient Campfire" and "Houses on the Hill".

Terry Riley, A Rainbow in Curved Air. A certified classic, and a great companion to…

Laurie Spiegel, The Expanding Universe.

The Tallis Scholars, Renaissance Radio. Solid compilation. "If Ye Love Me".

Elori Saxi, Henry Solomon, Seeing Is Forgetting. Electronics + sax/woodwinds. "Reno Silver".

Apparat, The Devil's Walk. "Goodbye".

Jamie xx, In Waves.

Absolutely, Cerebrum.

Movies
Ghostwatch. Maybe a progenitor of the found footage horror genre. Interesting more for historical reasons. Maybe would have landed more if I'd watched it at nighttime!

Juror No. 2. This one had been lingering on my watchlist forever. Glad I made time for it. Need to keep going with legal thrillers.

TV
Dark, s2e1–3.

CSI: Miami, s4e23.