calendar occasional essays on various topics Most recent updates: 2012.0430: 2012.04 minutiae 2012.0429: Shutter Island; 127 Hours 2012.0421: "The Pineapple and the Hare" 2012.0420: The Aleph and Other Stories 2012.0331: 2012.03 minutiae

interactive fiction stories in which you get to participate Endless, Nameless: new for 2012! Narcolepsy: Xyzzy for Best Writing, 2003 Varicella: four Xyzzies, including Best Game of 1999 Photopia: 1st place, IF Comp 1998 ...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: 2011.09: part six: "Room Service" 2010.02: part five: "Parents' Day" 2009.06: part four: "Citizen's Arrest"

music lo-fi songs, primarily in the rock and/or roll genre Most recent update: "Viral Puncture of the Superior Vena Cava"

gastronomy restaurant and cookbook reviews Most recent updates: 2012.0515: 7 for Panta Rei in San Francisco 2012.0508: 11 for Cafe Romanat in Oakland 2012.0507: 9 for Platano in Berkeley 2012.0506: 16 for Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco 2012.0505: 8 for Plum in Oakland

miscellany stuff that didn't fit anywhere above Most recent updates: 2012.0416: 2012 Lyttle Lytton winners 2012.0211: YYYY-MM-DD: the movie

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