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Latest — 20 Apr 2026

When the Ship Returns to Port

Saturday, April 18, 2026 There's always the ringing. It's a high frequency sonic film through which all sound arrives these days, becoming more opaque and noisome, even painful, depending on what's transmitting. Acoustic guitar, I discovered to my disappointment and dismay, when Nancy played

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Smells Like Heritage

One day in high school honors chemistry, I threw together a concoction that I thought was supposed to produce an artificial mint scent. I gave it a cautious waft and realized otherwise. I’d synthesized formaldehyde, and whenever I see “heritage” used as an adjective, I get a flashback—that

Three of Six

A TiGGR Scenario About Paperwork, Identity, and the Limits of Administrative Competence Players: 2–5 | Playtime: 30–45 minutes | Components: 2d6, pencil, paper | Requires the TiGGR core rules THE PREMISE You are not Number 6. Neither is he. Neither is she. And yet, according to the paperwork, all three of

The Rocketship of Theseus

SMF. Sacramento Metropolitan Field. Sacramento International Airport. And I keep thinking of The Smurfs. La la la la la la la. This is how I’m getting to Los Angeles today to meet up with Nancy at the Teragram Ballroom. She’s literally on the road with Rocketship, headed to

Lancer: The One-Eyed Foxes

A Starter Squad & Introductory Mission for Lancer "Dirty Dozen" meets "Kelly's Heroes" — five misfits, one stolen casket, and two factions who want them dead. What Is Lancer? Lancer is a tabletop RPG about pilots and their mechs. It sits at the intersection of

The Gambler's Wisdom Among the One-Armed Bandits

On persuasion, ambiguity, and knowing when to walk away There's a decision hygiene rule in a 1978 country song that turns out to be more operationally relevant to AI governance than most enterprise policy documents. Kenny Rogers, by way of a dying stranger on a train, offered advice

Be Seeing You!

A TiGGR Scenario About Routine, Surveillance, and the Cost of Staying Livable Cultural Touchstone: The Prisoner (1967–68) Players: 2–5 | Playtime: 30–45 minutes | Components: 2d6, pencil, paper Requires the TiGGR core rules THE PREMISE You are not Number 6. You are not Number 2. You are not Rover.

Other Maps, Same Territory

Ned Raggett's recent Patreon essay on the fragility of recent music history is thorough, specific, and coming from someone who knows the landscape from decades inside it. He's not just mourning box sets. He's tracing how the documentation layer around music — the writing, the

The Jack of Focus-Fire Trade

On Renaissance Men, Sling Bags, and the Quiet Radicalism of Doing One Thing A high school English teacher once handed me a cognomen I wasn't entirely sure I deserved. Renaissance Man, she said, with the particular authority of someone who has watched enough sophomores to know which ones

The Book of Ellie

A Solo Journaling Game of Walking and Remembering What This Is You are Cas. You have Ellie, an AI language model. The collapse happened—slowly, then all at once. The water wars, the hunger, the walls, the silence. You saw it coming. Ellie modeled it before it arrived. Neither of