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Denotation and Connotation, Cartomancy edition
Tarot feels more like intellectual symbolism versus how Lenormand feels like emotional symbolism. It's semantics, cartomancy edition.
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Slop on a Plane
I accidentally read an AI slop novel and I'm trying not to hate myself. I have a lot of excuses as to why this happened, but here’s the story.
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The past and future in Pueblo art
With his art, Virgil Ortiz tells the story of the 1680 Pueblo revolt and of a future where his descendants return to the past to defend his ancestors.
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Keeping the Lights on in a Room of One’s Own
Say you now have a room of your own. It's a nice place, considering.
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How Can We Look to the Skies When the World is Burning?
I don't know. It's been a month since the successful Artemis II launch and return. I watched the live footage of the crew's splashdown. I held my breath with every milestone on their way home. I hoped with all of my being they would
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Escaping the Endless Scroll Part Four: I'm Bad at Obituaries
May her memory be a blessing.
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Horror As a Service
There's a thing I think some folks don't get about the horror genre. There's a point to it beyond the blood and gore and existential dread. Well several points, actually.
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Escaping the Endless Scroll Part Three: Deprecating the Attention Generator
The journey so far: Yours truly had a stroke and one of the unexpected side effects was a shift in their relationship with social media and being online. So here’s the story of the break up. When people ask me why I moved to a small town in the
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That One Time I Used Midjourney to Make a Lenormand Deck
So one time I used Midjourney to make a Lenormand deck. This is how and why I did it.
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State Management
The green text on the black screen, embraced by the monitor that smelled like dust and the future, was a portal to a magic world. I could create, I could navigate. The entire world inside the computer was mine to control and modify as I pleased.
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Escaping the Endless Scroll - Part Two: What Happens When Our Friends Are Electric
My several hundred word post about having a stroke didn't go viral. I didn't receive a mountain of condolences or Get Well Soons. The former would have been disturbingly strange. The latter was actually pretty disappointing.
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Escaping the Endless Scroll - Part One: The Hard Restart
Something strange had happened. Well, something strange in addition to having a stroke and being in the hospital recovering from it. Social media couldn't have gotten so bad so suddenly. The only thing that had changed since I had last logged on was my brain, but that seemed just so... so simple.