Oct 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social New NLJ Article: 86 Days Until Christmas On October 1, 2026, I (being N.A. Ferrell) published a new article on The New Leaf Journal titled 86 Days Until Christmas: Seen in Carroll Gardens. On September 29, I had come across an inflatable ...
Oct 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-02-26 October begins two-for-two with Pook-Emu Bee Links before our regularly scheduled Saturday off-day for the Newsletter Leaf Journal. I think they’re hoping you get the hint 1 | Japan announces new p...
Oct 02, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal My Kaori After Story Review and Questionable Searches On discovering that my 2022 review of Kaori After Story, a visual novel with no "adult" content, attracted notable traffic from Google searchers looking for a visual novel with "adult" content.
Oct 02, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Trackback Spam on Iroha Isshiki Hair Color Study Taking a critical look at the hidden message behind two spam trackback links to my Iroha Isshiki hair color study.
Oct 02, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Snowflake Another influx of coupling thoughts, yet no greater truth to be found in them—how vexed I am, that I continue to write them down anyway. An opening tag, a few paragraphs, maybe a closing tag if I f...
Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social A Townhouse For Sale in Brooklyn Heights I came across an article about a “fully restored 1840s Brooklyn Heights townhouse” available for the low price of $12.75 million. It looks nice. But the artcile does leave out some potentially impo...
Oct 01, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal 86 Days Until Christmas: Seen in Carroll Gardens In Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, the countdown to Christmas begins in September.
Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-01-26 Let us start October off on the right foot with an exciting new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee Links. Oh no, whatever will I do? 1 | Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of...
Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Toys R Us Leaving Japan After 35 Years Back in the 90s and very early 2000s, most of my video games came from Toys ‘R Us. See, for example, my discussion in Nintendo 64 at 30 and My N64 Memories (which includes a photo of my Toys ‘R Us-...
Oct 01, 2026 from Ploum.net The AI Pascal’s Wager The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? Let’s put aside for a moment all the ethical/ecological/societal considerations about the use of...
Oct 01, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Man of Scribbles The rhetorician sleeps again. Two olanzapines last night, 400 mg of liquid caffeine this morning. The uneasiness and looming anxieties that come with mania drive me to such tears of lunacy that the...
Sep 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-30-26 Time for the Sepender edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee Links. Subway Stories 1 | These salvaged relics in a Brooklyn subway station are the ghostly remains of old New York buildings ...
Sep 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. F...
Sep 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905) Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.
Sep 30, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Myself; Yourself and Watchable Bad Anime I was reminded of a 2007 anime called Myself; Yourself. While I did not care for it, I remembered the when and why I watched it and then discussed how it is a great example of a watchable bad anime.
Sep 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-29-26 You may wonder whether I sometimes go a week or so (a week in this case) without publishing Pook-Emu Bee links because I lack links. Not so. I collect links every day. That makes getting back to Po...
Sep 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35) Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.
Sep 29, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Christmas Tree Man Less shit, not more. Especially with being more manic recently, my capacity to make decisions is disoriented by the constant streams of interconnected thoughts; oh, and of course there's the increa...
Sep 28, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Better late than letter 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIX Welcome to the 299th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form writing sister...
Sep 27, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Big Fifth-ish, Part 10 It’s time once again to check in with the Fifth Doctor’s audio adventures. Last time, we had a mini-season of further travels with Nyssa in that gap between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity that Big...
