Recently read: Nothing Happened (Williams, 2026)

Recently watched: Safety Last! (Newmeyer and Taylor, 1923), Workingman’s Death (Glawogger, 2005), Helvetica (Hustwit, 2007), Dr. No (Young, 1962), Magellan (Diaz, 2025).

Workingman’s Death was hard to watch in places. The tight spaces for the coal miners gave me shivers. The open-air slaughterhouse was … I can’t quite describe it. Disgusting? Repugnant? Horrific? How can that go on day after day after day?

Magellan was slow and beautiful and amazing and a stark (necessary!) contrast to the “hero worship” that I read in 1980s middle school and high school textbooks.

It seems that Notepad++ got hacked last year. Lovely.

This has been a tough winter to run outside. Cold + wind + slippery snow. Hard to stay motivated.

Recently watched: The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999), F for Fake (Welles, 1973), Safe (Haynes, 1995), Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959).

Recently read: The Oxford University Press edition of The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Arthur Machen, edited by Aaron Worth, 2018). Currently reading Ubik (PK Dick, 1969).

Recently watched: A trio of films from Werner Herzog and one from Akira Kurosawa. Stroszek (1977), My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009), Fata Morgana (1971), Sanjuro (1962).

Recently read: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (PK Dick, 1964). The Man in the High Castle (PK Dick, 1962). Working my way through the Oxford University Press edition of The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Arthur Machen, edited by Aaron Worth, 2018).

Recently read: The Chaos Protocols (Gordon White). Still reading The Living Great Lakes (Jerry Dennis), started The Red Goddess (Peter Grey).

Recently watched: Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), Thief (1981), Space is the Place (1974). Got interested in watching Space while listening to a Weird Studies podcast during a train ride across Michigan.

(By the way, you should subscribe to Weird Studies. It is really good.)

Recently watched: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Twin Peaks seasons 1 and 2 (and started season 3 last night), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014).

Reading: The Living Great Lakes (Jerry Dennis) and The Chaos Protocols (Gordon White).