Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
🎬 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Believe it or not, I have not seen this previously. It's relentless. It's uncomfortable. It's horrifying. That was quite the trip, seeing it at the cinema.
🎬 Bad Taste
Well, this was just the right desert after TCM that evening. Bad Taste was one of my earliest splatter/underground movies I've seen. It was great seeing this again after all these years. Splendid splattertainment!
🎬 Berberian Sound Studio
…or The Italian Vegetable Massacre.
Toby Jones - which I really didn't know before - is absolutely fantastic. He truly transports how one might feel in such a menacing environment. And the film leaves no doubt it criticises these types of people, and hence the production of ...
A Christmassy Bike Ride
Cracking ride yesterday with RuotaLibera, the Rome chapter of FIAB that I belong to. It was billed as a Christmassy ride around the parks of the south of Rome, and it was a blast. The guides had mapped out a great route that had a few exciting moments — roundabouts where you...
Brainstorming visual search for the web
When I am chatting about a website with friends, sometimes I forget the name of the website. I remember what the site is about, and often remember visual details about the site, too. A few months ago, I described a website that aggregated blogs and also mentioned it had a yel...
Walking
The sun sets early at this time of year. Now that I think about it, the shortest day of the year is coming soon, after which point, each following day will be longer. Anyway, I went for a walk before the sun set. If I don’t go out now, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow. That m...
What if I told you that I know exactly how to ensure that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants?
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
New episode: The easiest way to be ...
New episode: The easiest way to be absolutely certain that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants.
https://eatthispodcast.com/give-again
A Lady in Grey
I love thinking about the use of colour in painting. Impressionist paintings never cease to make me smile; their colour illuminates me as it does the places they depict (oh! how wonderful art can be!). I also love paintings that use grey and white, both sparingly and as part ...
IndieWeb Book Club: Understanding Comics
The IndieWeb Book Club choice for November 2025 was Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. I wanted to write a post about this book, but I have lately found myself spending a lot of time reading books rather than writing. My time recently has reminded me of how much I love rea...
Words and making coffee
Sometimes, I feel pressure to write about more serious topics on my website. Surely I have something I can say! While I do love writing the occasional technical blog post here, thoughts on the future of the web, or ideas on another topic, I sometimes feel a bit stuck when I f...
IndieWeb Book Club: Non-Designer’s Design Book
This month’s IndieWeb Book Club book, the Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams, felt like it was written for me. One of my goals this year was to learn more about design, so I was delighted to see this book on the list.
Through the book, Williams introduces and detai...
Music this year
For the last two years, I have posted my Spotify Wrapped updates to my website. I think they serve as much as a reminder to me about what music I was listening to as being potentially interesting to you (I hope, maybe?). This year I moved to Apple Music part-way through the y...
Cleaning the Artemis database
If you are a user of Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, you may have noticed that there has been more downtime than usual lately. This is largely because of a difficult database task on which I have been working.
If you are not interested in the technical details but a...
remember when movies were 1h 40min long.... you never know what you have until it's over. why are movies nowadays both 2 and a half hours long but also made for people who don't pay attention to the screen. what sort of hell is this
Morning
I am sitting on a train, looking — or at least aspirationally looking — in equal measures downward at my phone as well as to the horizon. The sun is rising above the hills; yellow peeks through the light, low clouds.
Rain briefly fell. Standing, waiting for the train, I thou...
Consumer Brands Association “about as Big Ultra-Processed Food as you can get” launches a campaign[1].
“The concept of ultra-processing is an existential threat to the companies that make such products. The CBA’s all-out effort to discredit the concept is a tribute to how powerful it is.”
A good reason to remind you that “Food Facts Are Not the Answer to Fear of Foods” [2].
[1] https://www.foodpolitics.com/2025/12/https-www-foodpolitics-com-2025-12-28072/
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Coming to Terms
A very sobering rant about American Collapse.
What I have been reading lately
For a while I have wanted to make a bookshelf page on my website but such a page comes with the feeling that I should keep it up to date, a continuing obligation. I don’t want to keep a list of all the books I have read on my website right now, but I do want to share a few ti...