Dec 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Dec 31, 2025 – Jan 01, 2026: Nobody Is Here. Happy New Year. “Nobody Is Here.” Is the chant I chant I have been chanting. It keeps looping, not loud enough to be prayer, not honest enough to be a lie. Things have been happening and I have been wondering wher...
Dec 31, 2025 from BEEW Socks, Geniuses, Gangsters A few bright spots from 2025. This summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In. It came out of a period of cultural vertigo, dark headlines, dis...
Dec 30, 2025 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy “What Has Happened To the Magic of Doctor Who?” – A Ranking of the Heart Too Long To Wait, Long Enough To List There was no Doctor Who Christmas special this year – in fact, there’s no new Doctor Who on television (not counting Doctor-less spin-offs) until Christmas 202...
Dec 28, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 From sublime spheres to hungry cats, a rundown of the ten most read of what we published this year.
Dec 27, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLX 〜 The Gingerbread Letter Welcome to the 260th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Dec 20, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIX 〜 Christmas Rivers Welcome to the 258th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Dec 19, 2025 from Ploum.net Prepare for That Stupid World Prepare for That Stupid World You probably heard about the Wall Street Journal story where they had a snack-vending machine run by a chatbot created by Anthropic. At first glance, it is funny and i...
Dec 15, 2025 from BEEW Hope Is a Complicated Little Bastard Sometimes the mind underlines things before you know why. You jot down a quote, a song lyric, something someone said, something that strikes you as important, then another, then another, and before...
Dec 15, 2025 from Ploum.net How We Lost Communication to Entertainment How We Lost Communication to Entertainment All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected. A few days ag...
Dec 13, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVIII 〜 Compensating Welcome to the 258th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Iván Moure Pazos tours the psychedelic chambers of...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) Still lifes by the artist who seemed to bridge expressionism with the baroque.
Dec 08, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVII 〜 In moderation Welcome to the 257th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Dec 04, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning.
Dec 02, 2025 from Improve Something Today Going wrong, going great: notes for December 2025 2½ readings on seeing failures & responding to them. Celebrating my accomplished & wonderful pals.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Attention.
Nov 30, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVI 〜 Thankful Bulls Prefatory Note Note: I am sending the newsletter late because I ran into a technical issue when I was preparing to send it this afternoon. (I had an extraneous tag in the header which was messting ...
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review “Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) French lithographs of the Eiffel Tower and its environs, in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.
