Some divagations I’ve self-published on my blog over the years. They are collected here on this obscure page to save them from the even greater obscurity of my blog’s archives.

❦ Blog Posts that Became Essays

• On Motivation and Writing Prompts (2020)
• Chance Operations: On chance operations and bias (2020)
• The Magical Powers of a New Shirt: On The West Wing, 9/11, language, and violence (2020)
• Is Not Chicago: Something about free will and polarities; also, glancingly, Tolstoy and pencils (2019)
• On Freedom (2011; revised 2021)
• New Copies: On artistic creation (2004; revised 2005, 2019)
• Disbelief: On the idea of “suspension of disbelief” (2003; revised 2019)
• Blogs: A Brief Reader’s Guide (2003; revised 2019)

❦ Blog Posts that Didn’t Quite Manage to Become Essays

• Six Zoom Meetings Before Lunch: The enchanting prelude to The Magical Powers of a New Shirt (2020)
• Until the End of the World: On a long-vanished and recently reissued film (2019)
• On Poetry and Bullshit (2019)
• On Morning Pages: If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly (2018)
• Nameless Decades (2018)
• Drake’s Equation and the Church (2018)

❦ Poems Originally Published Elsewhere

• Cadenza: A plaintext version of a poem that first appeared in issue #5 of Wine Cellar Press
• a Found Fragment in your Firetorn Books: A plaintext version of a poem that first appeared in issue #5 of Wine Cellar Press
• Otata: Six poems that first appeared in the now-defunct Otata, with their proper lineations restored

❦ Projects and Other Distractions

• Finished: Books I finish reading each month (January 2019–present)
• Book Spine poems: poems assembled from the titles of books (2018, 2022)
• ATD: Reading guides for several sections of Against the Day from the Chumps of Choice group-read (2007; lightly revised 2019)

❦ Meta

• Tools: A brief overview of the analog hardware I’m using at any given time