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• brendan
I drew the cartoon above from a photograph that turned twenty years old last month. That’s Erika on the left, and next to Erika is Stephen’s bride Erin,…
Kaijuville
• brendan
Mages & Modems is a memoir by writer-podcaster-developer vga256, and one I enjoyed very much. As soon as I began reading it, I could tell that the author…
Kaijuville
• brendan
Please pretend this came out on Tuesday.
Kaijuville
• brendan
The name of this post comes from a swap I made with Zachary Kai, a thoughtful writer and blogger who kindly explained how his Title Traders directory works…
Kaijuville
• brendan
One of the two creatures depicted above is Garmegula, a giant lizard I made up many years ago because I wanted to write some very short allegories about…
Kaijuville
• brendan
If you thought “oh cool!” as soon as you read the words “Ethan Marcotte” above, then you and I understand each other. Ethan is a widely-cited author, designer,…
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• brendan
(You can click on these.)
Kaijuville
• brendan
This is mostly a newsletter about circumventing the capital-a algorithm, but even I must acknowledge that a backwards clock is right four times a day. Google knows I’m…
Kaijuville
• brendan
Before we get to anything else in this post, I’m asking you to open up a new tab—better yet, a whole new window—and put Lucy Bellwood’s extraordinary comic…
Kaijuville
• brendan
I had friends over last week for my first-ever LAN party. It was as good as I could have hoped: we set out Doritos and pizza and two-liters…
Kaijuville
• brendan
A reflection on tabletop gaming, family, and the persistence of gifts.
Kaijuville
• brendan
(You can click on these.) Addendum to last week’s newsletter: I learned about the wiby.me surprise button from Ethan Marcotte’s links feed. Thanks Ethan! Let’s not get stepped…
Kaijuville
• brendan
Not actually things that are random.
