Trying to be all cool and tough this weekend, I was being a bit sloppy with a chainsaw. I’ve had the chain come off plenty of times before, but never had it tangle so badly I couldn’t immediately get it back …

• Fresh-ground cinammon. Finally nailed my colors to the mast on this and threw out the ancient McCormick-or-whomever spice container we have had for years. Made sure to sniff the contents first to give myself a fuller …

For … reasons, I fed Claude a bunch of my Internet posting history. In retrospect, much of the worst of it

• Metafilter comments (not so bad)
• Reddit archive (not great)
• Twitter archive (very not great)

I wanted to see how well it could mat…

I write all my notes and drafts in …

I have been thinking a lot lately about these two fellows.

If you are not lucky enough to know them already, those are Harold and George fr…

• Mutiny After Midnight - I know I mentioned it last time but it’s just so good. Between this and Sound & Fury, he’s cornered the market on Rolling Stones-style ‘70s scuzz rock and I love t…

• Milk Street’s tacos arabes
• Tom’s Crossing
• The fact Hardcover exists, a site to replace Goodreads, which has been dead sin…

I was well into my 30s before I realized my mother’s aphorism on relationships, “Fits find each other” had a positive meaning. Because my mother and her sister both taught in special education and because their side of the family is from …

Do you, like me, often find yourself in internet arguments for no good reason and want to reply with a dead-perfect response GIF so everyone will clap and love you even more but the response you want is actually stored in your bookmarks in the superior …