Big sky on Monday night. I have fresh herbs, so I’m making herb salts this week. I also have a bulb of black garlic so…

First day of reset. Index cards, paper, pens. The deli was randomly closed – fuck you, Dan – so I stopped in at the Pipe…

Terrible day yesterday: ill and brain-fogged and too much to do. Missed the gig at the Jazz Centre I had tickets for. But I did…

Running late today. ACCESSIONS: Apparently this thing is 1200 pages long. THE ROUSE, China Mieville (UK) (US+) I’ve seen reviews for DIGGER start to appear,…

I imported a new supply of beard oil from my current favourite source, Fires Of Freyja in North Carolina USA. HEKS, I didn’t order –…

Printing off development material to paste it into notebooks. This is a piece of COLLIDE, the comic with Jerome Eyquem that is being serialised in…

A care package from Zoharum has arrived. I have shipped out four different pieces of work this week, pulled a couple of very long days,…

New pens have arrived. Pigma Microns, Pentel Energels, a Uni-ball Signo 207, WRITECH Space-Up, and a new Drehgriffel gel pen. OPERATIONS: sprint week continues READING:…

From Friday night – dinner at our favourite restaurant, which comes with treats from the chef when the bill arrives. Arrived today, new issue of…

That brain-tapping thing when you spend all night meditating on a story space, and get the penultimate solution to it about twenty minutes before bedtime.…

I read somewhere this week that offline is (once again) the new flex. Fashion people have apparently discovered The Offline, which seems weird to me…

The first early-autumn morning when you realise you won’t actually be warm again for nine months. Russian naval boat-neck longsleeve under a Nepalese cotton popover.…

Didn’t get enough nailed down yesterday. I have the full shape of two stories, but I really wanted to get into scripting and to firm…

* TOO TIRED TO SAY ANYTHING: Everything Is Remembered – 15-min ambient music podcast * Monument Podcast (MNMT 534 : Alex Tirelli) – 1hr techno music podcast, on the quiet pulsing end of the spectrum

Right, then. Autumn’s here, and I’m shifting gears. Massively simplifying, going analogue wherever possible, going back to handwritten daybook lists in the office, and going…

Mancub came in when my alarm went off to tell me that the sunlight has gone away and I needed to bring it back. While…

Offline day: finishing up in the office and then out for lunch, shopping and then a gig. We’ve learned to crave feeds that impose a…

Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they…

Did you ever think about the number of films you don’t get to see because you’re self-harming your own brain cells with aggressively mid streaming…

AirPods with cameras in is a good thing because for a year they’re all anyone will want and proper earbuds will get cheaper. And then…

Me too, mancub, me too. Herself incubated what may possibly be plague at Bloodstock and is therefore in the Plague Cell (our daughter’s old room)…

Imagine a story where the events in our lives that happen online are never depicted or mentioned. A day would seem twelve hours long and…

It is fiercely hot. I won’t be heading out for a while. I also have a mead delivery on the way from Horns Of Odin.…

We stood outside on the street and watched the eclipse. We were the only ones out there. It was glorious. That moment when there’s a…

Spent last night reading a stack of issues of the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT that had piled up over the last few months. As I said…

Very quickly filling up a notebook with bad ideas. Which is the only way I know of to get at the better ideas. Blew through…

Kazuhiro Ishikawa. Marc Weidenbaum. Wallace Chan. morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day. Press the floating Subscribe button to have these notes…

I am resting my brain and conducting a managed retreat to the outside world. Except, of course, I’m not actually resting my brain, I’m trying…

Note finger partially over lens because I had already drunk all these, and also a Cornish whisky called Pocketful Of Stones. Out in November: a…

Jason Limon. An Early Bronze Age metalworker and shaman discovered over 200 years ago in a lavish burial near Stonehenge and long assumed to be…

Remedios Varo. Remedios Varo Uranga was one of the few acknowledged female surrealist painters of the first half of the 20th century. She defied the…

Wearing a Victor Victoria shirt from the Nineties and a Swatch Metropolis from the Eighties and accepting that all this is “vintage,” not “last year.”…

Good morning sinners. My problem, apparently, is that I’m interested in too many things. In fact, someone made a point of writing to my office…

I grew lilies. I have a whole new, and hopefully long-term, plan for the garden, and am looking at an autumn/winter of being outside with…

TELEMETRY: Accessions: My previous digital copy of this was bootleg: a proper copy showed up in an Amazon sale, and I decided a legit and…

Tamara Dean. Eliza Douglas. journaia. morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day. My free weekly newsletter is at https://orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com/

Well, I wasn’t in the mood to post anything during the heatwave, and my poor eight-year-old ThinkPad was in such dire straits that opening more…

It is absolutely blazing out there today. Heat warnings are in effect. Friday looks like it’s going to be the hottest day. OPERATIONS: 700 words…

This week will probably just be a writing log. 500 words down yesterday. I always console myself that Graham Greene only ever wrote 500 words…

Evidently we are now on track for our seventh prime minister in (checks watch) fifteen minutes. The Met Office has issued a rare red warning…

Leonora Carrington. CONNECTED: Yuji Agematsu. Love the little SCHWA alien. morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day. My free weekly newsletter is…

Another idea newly influential in analytic circles at this time originated with Brian Jenkins, an expert at the Rand Corporation in California, who had studied…

Too much to do today. Had three deliveries before noon – a CD, a magazine, and a pair of pre-owned grey canvas Carharrt work trousers…

I have always wanted to see this, and it popped up on sale while I was trawling through the bottom of Amazon the other night.…

The raspberries are excellent this year so far. I felt the need to offline for an hour, so I walked into town while listening to…

David Muenzer. Afropresentism and Kinternet: “Afropresentism says, I am here bearing witness, yes, and it aches. And yes, I am grieving. And most importantly, yes,…

So, I think I was vaguely aware that Fritz Lang filmed THE NIBELUNG, but as I was kicking around Amazon, I tripped over this, a…

Trying to keep up with my own brain today. Flurry of thoughts. This edition of Feed Me connected to some recent notions. Mostly offline today…

Seth Pick. Songs prep the brains of finches yet to hatch for a hot world Exposure to parents’ “heat calls” makes finch young more resilient…