`fogus @fogus.me · 19/07/2026I wrote a post “The Centenary of 'Flower Phantoms' by Ronald Fraser” celebrating a beautiful whimsical fantasy. —> wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... 000
`fogus @fogus.me · 13/06/2026Received my copy of Arthur Machen’s book of essays The Guide, published by Darkly Bright Press in the mailbox today. This little lovely contains a humble appendix by yours truly! 061
`fogus @fogus.me · 27/05/2026Was there anything more beautiful than a 1980s video-store horror section? 180
`fogus @fogus.me · 11/03/2026I received Ghosts & Scholars #50, containing my first non-computing-related published article! On top of that, I got a nice mention by the amazing Rosemary Pardoe in the editorial. (swoon) That said, this is the final issue of a publication that I've read for decades, so my feelings are bittersweet. 050
`fogus @fogus.me · 21/02/2026Behold the most confused board game ever: A 1970s "executive"-style Go set with a gold-etched playing surface, Summer Olympic motifs, and a box that says "Chinese Chess"... Seems like a specialty item from the 1960-70s associated with an Olympics hosted in asian... 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo? 140
`fogus @fogus.me · 20/02/2026Breaking out an old game design that I couldn’t get working…. 10 years ago. 🤷♂️ sure to work this time. 050
`fogus @fogus.me · 25/01/2026"All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals." 051
`fogus @fogus.me · 07/01/2026On this date Jan 7, 1938 the polymath Roland Topor was spawned. /cc @antiheroine.bsky.social 150
`fogus @fogus.me · 23/12/2025Emblogginated: The best things and stuff of 2025 blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/t... topics include: clojure, llms, zettelkasten, baron corvo, fiction, and computing. 0133
`fogus @fogus.me · 08/12/2025Emblogginated "Checkers Arcade," whereby I talk about turning a common American Checkers set into an "arcade" for deep games of abstract strategy. blog.fogus.me/games/checke... 1102
`fogus @fogus.me · 12/10/2025I glad that you liked it. I had a good feeling that you might. I hope that the best month is going well for you. I’m a bit behind on the festivities but am trying to catch up. 010
`fogus @fogus.me · 16/09/2025If I start reading now then I might just finish it by 2026. I’ve waited for this one since 2019 after reading about it on the Untranslated blog. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/s... 120
`fogus @fogus.me · 10/09/2025Finally found the perfect box to make a Marrakesh travel set like the one at boardgamegeek.com/image/376686.... 060
`fogus @fogus.me · 04/09/2025Emblogginated: "18XX: A System of Systems" --> blog.fogus.me/games/18XX/i... 040
`fogus @fogus.me · 28/07/2025It’s been at least a decade since I last found Icehouse pieces in the wild. @looneylabs.bsky.social 150
`fogus @fogus.me · 11/07/2025Whenever I visit Japan, I tend to prefer the vast varied and lovely tracks of country where tourist seldom go, and no language but Japanese is spoken save for perhaps the thick dialects of the older generation, which sounds to me like an inscrutably different language altogether. 040
`fogus @fogus.me · 25/06/2025My favorite occult ritual/artifacts in films, no particular order: Prince of Darkness, The Ninth Gate, A Dark Song, Hereditary 010
`fogus @fogus.me · 19/05/2025My favorite reads in April 2025: Fifty Forgotten Records by R.B. Russell, Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker, and Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse. 030
`fogus @fogus.me · 11/05/2025How I imagine Patricia Warrick looked whenever she received a letter from PKD circa 1980. 000
`fogus @fogus.me · 27/03/2025My two favorite books read in March 2025: Mouse: A Language for Microcomputers by Peter Grogono We Who Are About To by Joanna Russ 020
`fogus @fogus.me · 05/03/2025Current computing readings… Mouse: a language for microcomputers by Grogono and “DESIGN: a financial modeling system” by Hui and Appleyard 030
`fogus @fogus.me · 27/02/2025One final pass on my rules for Natto before I make them publicly available. 050
