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Posting History

Jul 8, 2025: Godzilla 1985
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 80’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: Americans …

Jul 7, 2025:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any wrestler whose name you might recognize, their Wikipedia page includes the phrase, “…is recognized as …

Jul 5, 2025:
Never do I feel more like a moth being drawn to the fatal flame than when I walk into the supermarket and they are cooking fresh fried chicken…

Jul 4, 2025:
Listening: Jethro Tull, particularly Thick as a Brick but by golly we’re probably going through the whole catalog on this ride…

Jul 4, 2025:
Naively optimistic that I’ll actually end up making the most of this day off. So far so good, but this is America Day, which means, in that spirit, it …

Jul 3, 2025: Oh, we won't give in, we'll keep living in the past
I find myself retreating to the past. Is it retreat? In some ways, it is an entirely natural progression. For the last few years, I’ve felt myself …

Jun 26, 2025:
Reading: The Phoenix Guard by Steven Brust

Jun 26, 2025: Cautiously Optimistic
There have been various times when reading books was the most important activity in my life. And there have certainly been times when it is the most …

Jun 24, 2025:
The sun quieted down a bit; it’s time to think.

Jun 24, 2025:
Playing: Breath of Fire (SNES via Switch)

Jun 18, 2025:
Been taking more walks in the evening… 📷 17 - 18 June 2025

Jun 12, 2025:
Each day feels better than the last. My head is clearing. I don’t mind the gray skies, its the haze that’s so debilitating…

Jun 10, 2024:
Did not expect this to become a solely Godzilla blog, but I also didn’t expect my dad to get cancer, so work on everything else that wasn’t already …

Jun 4, 2024: Godzilla vs Biollante (1984)
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 80’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: Godzilla …

Jun 1, 2024: Return of Godzilla (1984)
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 80’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: Godzilla …

May 25, 2024: Godzilla vs Destoroyah (1995)
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 90’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: Godzilla …

May 22, 2024:
just past the Coda 📷 7:20pm

May 21, 2024: Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla (1994)
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 90’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: Godzilla …

May 18, 2024: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 90’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: Godzilla …

May 14, 2024: Godzilla and Mothra: Battle for Earth (1992)
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 90’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: Mothra …

May 11, 2024: Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)
Part of my series of reviews of the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Spoilers within, but we’re talking 90’s Godzilla movies here. Spoiler alert: White …

May 9, 2024:
Just scheduled a bunch of Godzilla movie reviews to post here over the next few weeks. Now, the real challenge is trying to remember to make other …

May 9, 2024: Godzilla Heisei Era Master Post!
Heisei Godzilla by Cheung Chung Tat Earlier this year, I watched all the Heisei era Godzilla movies as part of a bigger, less-organized desire to …

May 6, 2024:
Taking Thursday and Friday off of work. Why do the vacation-shortened work weeks feel longer than the full-size ones? (Probably a bad sign that the …

May 3, 2024: Blogs All The Way Down! Blogs Forever and Forever 100 Years!
I’m not on Tumblr much anymore. Both for Tumblr/social media-y reasons, and for personal ones, but all of them in some way intersect with the concepts …

May 2, 2024:
Steadily reaching the point of transition between setting up a new digital space/tool/platform and actually using it as a practice. Fully disclosure: …

May 1, 2024:
Ysabeau 🐈 has been known to let it all hang out on sunny days… 30 April 2024

May 1, 2024:
Tulips 🌱🌷 28 April 2018

May 1, 2024:
Every day I….  am hustlin' have the blues write the book have to look up the difference between “i.e.” and “e.g.”…

Apr 30, 2024:
Migrating over to micro blog and realizing it has solved every major and minor annoyance I was experiencing on my old platform/stack… #currently

Apr 30, 2024: CCB 007 - Surprise Yourself
When you drop all ideas about pleasure causing happiness and pain causing suffering, then you can find happiness where you might expect to feel pain …

Apr 29, 2024: Unexpected Song
Listening to musicals still makes me sad sometimes. Especially some musicals, and especially some times. It’s been nearly twenty years since that part …

Apr 10, 2024: Journal Excerpt
…wandering forward, sometimes only by inches. But I am moving. And so is everything else. I will never truly get to pause everything and have a proper …

Mar 19, 2024: CCB 006 - The Ever-Mutating Life of Tumblr Dot Com
Okay funny story - I wrote the below little post over a year ago, and for some reason, never published it. Instead it was hiding in drafts nearly lost …

Mar 19, 2024: I am afraid to put dates on entries.
I am intimidated. I feel pressured by them. I understand and agree with their usefulness in the world of ‘blog as archive’, but among the other …

Mar 19, 2024: Soft Reboot
Offline, I wrote: I’ve been spending some time, literally tonight and in general, bopping around the current, uh blogosphere. I’ve found a few sites, …

Jun 26, 2023: CCB 005 - Eternal Return
[Nietzsche] accepts the inevitability and suffering of reality (eternal return) but insists that the person, the self, must change perception. This …

Feb 24, 2023: CCB 004 - Who Are We, Really?
Sometimes, alone, I feel like a ghost. Unmasked, I walk through the world as if I’m embodying impressions. I channel the wind, the sadness the rain …

Feb 22, 2023: Doldrums Defied: A January Recap
January lasted about 37 days. It wasn’t a bad month, but it was a long month. 2023 has come in like… a… Do we even have anything to compare to …

Feb 3, 2023: Trees 01
“How strong, vital, enduring! how dumbly eloquent!" 01 - 7 april 2019 02 - 20 nov 2021 03 - 13 may 2020 04 - 19 jan 2020 05 - …

Jan 27, 2023: CCB 003
from: Year End: On moving to the woods Something I’m coming to know in my bones is this: I’ve come back to what matters over and over again, even …

Jan 23, 2023: The Origin of the arch-book
What began as an impulsive project on a Friday afternoon turned into a 4 - 5 day extravaganza. The arch-book is actually a Dell Chromebook 11 from a …

Jan 22, 2023: CCB 002 - "I feel very strong to do it."
Quotes from Steinbeck’s journals: never temper a word to a reader’s prejudice, but bend it like putty for his understanding. …and: I have tried to …

Jan 22, 2023: CCB 001
When you deeply love someone, you can look at them and see the difference between their true nature and a behaviour that’s an expression of …

Jan 22, 2023: CCB 000 - about
I go through the RSS feeds and newsletters, and compose a morningcomputer post here to condense what I’ve learned that morning that I consider worth …

Oct 14, 2022:
In my last post here, I was so worried about the precedent numbered entries in a series would set, I didn’t define the scope of the series itself well …

Jul 11, 2022: Project Log 001
The work of my life, at the moment, appears to be centered around living and acting deliberately. I say “appears” because the more I try to do the …

Jul 5, 2022: Log Start
It is, of course, a cardinal sin to blog about blogging, but it might be even more disrespectful of one’s time to use tools without thought and …

Mar 10, 2022: Considering
Well, I’m 39 now. Have been for almost 30 hours. So far, so good (all things considered). And boy oh boy, do I consider ALL the things. In fact, it …