Reread: Snow White and Sixty Stories, both by Donald Barthelme. About twenty Rex Stouts. The Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee. The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria. Probably some othe…

The project continues, albeit more slowly now that I’m mostly out of the major arcana. If you want to catch up, check out Tarot I, Tarot II, and Tarot III. Two of Pentacles Vivian Meier, 1959…

It’s been a fruitful few weeks for this project; I found pictures for a couple of cards that I just had to share, and figured out the theming for the remaining minor suits. As I said in my la…

Hello again! Boy howdy, I read some great books this quarter. I also reread: The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins- maybe the best crime novel of all time.Cogan’s Trade, George V. …

I’ve always been fascinated by Lustron houses, the all-steel prefabricated houses intended to be built en masse to accomodate returning G.I.s. The problem is that apart from the novel innovat…

It’s time for another round of images for my midcentury tarot project! Since my last post I’ve filled in quite a bit of the major arcana, but I’ve also taken on- or rather, had im…

Hello! I’m sure you’re surprised to see me talking about books in March, but last year’s list got to be a little unwieldy, so this year I’m going to try and release shorter …

For a few years I’ve been collecting black and white photos that seemed to have an esoteric or tarotic quality to them. As it turns out, this is a big genre; the past is often pretty surreal …

It’s December 31st, and you know what that means- time for my annual book list! It was a very good reading year and I’m excited to share it with you. This year I chose to categorize eve…

I am a chronic rereader; I’ve never run the numbers but I think at least half of the reading I do in a given year is iterative. I always think I should do some kind of round up of my rereads …

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is deeply alarmed by the report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today on medical care for transgender and gender-diverse ind...

In November I got into bookbinding! I had a great time messing about with craft knives and glue, and I’ve been meaning to share some of my finished projects. This is a rebind of a paperback c…