calendar occasional essays on various topics Most recent updates: 2018.0412: Coin Locker Babies 2018.0411: The Fate of Africa 2018.0401: 2018.03 minutiae 2018.0331: The Left Hand of Darkness 2018.0321: The Prestige

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: #10 (2017.0723) Radio K Calen-deliria: #1 (2017.0911) …plus some rock and/or roll songs

gastronomy restaurant and cookbook reviews Most recent updates: 2018.0325: 11 for Bart's in Amherst, MA 2018.0325: 12 for Richardson's Candy in Deerfield, MA 2018.0325: 17 for Antonio's Pizza in Amherst, MA 2018.0325: 1 for Smoothie Island in Holyoke, MA 2018.0324: 10 for La Fiorentina in Northampton, MA

miscellany stuff that didn't fit anywhere else Most recent updates: 2018.0419: Annotated list of favorite songs 2017.0501: 2017 Lyttle Lytton winners 2016.0503: 2016 Lyttle Lytton winners 2015.0422: 2015 Lyttle Lytton winners 2015.0417: '70s Mondrian

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