calendar occasional essays on various topics Most recent updates: 2019.0907: Fresh India; Made in India 2019.0901: 2019.08 minutiae 2019.0806: An Anthropologist on Mars; Temple Grandin 2019.0625: Persepolis; Hamlet; Dead Again; A Short History of Nearly Everything

interactive fiction stories in which you get to participate Endless, Nameless: a.k.a. “what I did in 2012” Narcolepsy: Xyzzy for Best Writing Varicella: four Xyzzies, including Best Game Photopia: voted best IF of all time (2015 poll) ...and several more

conventional prose stuff you can read without entering commands my novel, Ready, Okay! the ever-popular Wikipedia Brown, Boy Detective a ton of juvenilia ...and various odds and ends

comics now playing: Evil Creatures Most recent updates: 2014.07: part ten: “Thickly Settled” 2014.03: part nine: “More Than Meets the Eye II” 2012.08: part eight: “Fortune Teller” 2012.05: part seven: “Explosions” 2011.09: part six: “Room Service”

audio new adventures in lo‑fi Most recent updates: Radio K Ask/Tell: #11 (2018.0809) Radio K Calen‑deliria: #1 (2017.0911) …plus some rock and/or roll songs

gastronomy restaurant and cookbook reviews Most recent updates: 2019.0831: 8 for A+ Burger in Oakland 2019.0831: 8 for Gadani in Berkeley 2019.0812: 18 for Imperial Tea Court 2019.0807: 11 for Curry Pizza in West Valley City, UT 2019.0801: 10 for Pizzeria Avellino in San Francisco

miscellany stuff that didn't fit anywhere else Most recent updates: 2019.0715: 2019 Lyttle Lytton winners 2018.0513: 2018 Lyttle Lytton winners 2018.0419: Annotated list of favorite songs 2017.0501: 2017 Lyttle Lytton winners 2015.0417: ’70s Mondrian

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