Sep 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Higurashi Mahjong I have played and reviewed many little-known and niche visual novels. But I am also familiar with some of the classics. For example, I am a fan of the much-esteemed Higurashi: When They Cry series,...
Sep 23, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Reviewing What You Are Reading, Watching, or Playing On first reviewing the show you're watching (or book you're reading, game you're playing, etc.) before thinking about what it should have been.
Sep 22, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Cover the Mirrors, Uncover the Crime Russell Stone is a Rabbi whose career is on the slide. His run-down synagogue has been deserted by more or less everyone other than his cantor, Josh; the downbeat, miserable, occasionally outright ...
Sep 22, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy PC Pick-and-Mix: Megastructure Mayhem! A while back I reviewed Blackshard, a horror-themed walking simulator set in a vast futuristic megastructure. Such settings, like the one from Blame!, are kind of well-suited for videogame adaptati...
Sep 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social AP Tests and College Credits According to Neetu Arnold, writing for City Journal, “37 states require public universities to award credit to students who score a ‘3’ or higher on an AP exam.” That note is consistent with the Co...
Sep 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-22-26 Let us make it three days of Pook-Emu Bee links in a row. 1 | Million Goods Opens And A Crucial Bike Lane Completed (DeKalb Dispatch. Sep. 11, 2026.) There’s no such thing as a crucial bike lane. 2...
Sep 22, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Schema vs. Schemer I met my first schema-monk at church this last Sunday. Though he was a bit cantankerous, I could feel the aura oozing off of him. A wise-cracking pal corralled us to him during the coffee hour, and...
Sep 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-21-26 Daily Pook-Emu Bee links ceased being daily for the last week and change, but perhaps it is back with two straight editions to start the new week. 1 | Calibre 9.15 E-Book Manager Introduces “Create...
Sep 21, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Foolish Mortals, Thoughtful Adventure Somewhere off the coast of Louisiana lies the island of Devil’s Rock. Originally a cemetery island, by the late 19th Century it had become the base of operations for the brilliant Bellemore Brother...
Sep 21, 2026 from Ploum.net Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Le numérique est-il intrinsèquement mauvais ? Comme le souligne Sandra, le minimalisme numérique ne vient pas du fait que le numérique soit mauvais en soi...
Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-20-26 I have not had much time to post new articles (long or short lately), but let us get the last full week of September off to a good start with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. 1 | Linux 7.3 Adds S...
Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Sumo Ballet I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu deliv...
Sep 20, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal I had nothing 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCVIII Welcome to the 298th 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 19, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Galley House Is Beyond Help Back in the 1930s, a terrible discovery was made at Galley House – a broken corpse on the doorsteps, the blood still not quite dry, and a range of other bodies scattered about the place. The scene ...
Sep 19, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Deeper Roots The funny thing about trees is that the more they spread their leaves, the deeper their roots seep. I came up with that line last night, and I had to do a cliché-check to see if anyone had already ...
Sep 18, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Professional Idiot I'd rather be a Professional Idiot than an idiot professional. But that's just me. I had a dream last night I can't shake this morning—hate it when they're so vivid. It was a close friend's wedding...
Sep 17, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Ticking My trip on Labor Day weekend was great, thanks for asking. Getting back into this proverbial saddle gives me a bit of anxiety sometimes, but it's something that's just so innate at this point—there...
Sep 16, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Veronese's Dogs “Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to attentive canine figures in half a dozen paintings by Paolo Veronese, Thomas W. Laq...
Sep 16, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria september 16th: missed deadline, one story [The Salt in the Well], etc. so. this story was supposed to go somewhere else. i had written it for a publisher's call, revised it, overthought it, opened the document several unnecessary times as though staring harder might c...
Sep 15, 2026 from The Public Domain Review It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919) “A Cat-astrophe” came on the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat-themed music.
