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Latest ∙ 09 Jan 2026

Two Pieces of News

Short one to start off the year, with two things that happened this week. First of all, The Comics Beat announced Morgen acquiring a multi-volume graphic novel series by Ram V, Evan Cagle and Anand Radhakrishnan, with lettering by me, design by Tom Muller and editorial supervision by Eric Harburn.

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It Takes As Long As It Takes

As I’ve mentioned in a couple of posts before, I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos about guitar as I slowly learn to play the guitar myself. One of my favourite recent ones was this history of the guitar, in which guitarist Rob Scallon and classical guitarist/

Foolscap Paper

If you grew up in the British Commonwealth, you’ve probably heard of foolscap paper. It’s a slimmer size than A4, and a bit taller (8 x 13 inches, usually). Most of our bigger notebooks in school were foolscap-sized. Except, when we were in school, we pronounced the name

Serendipity

I just finished reading the excellent book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs, whose blog I’ve been following for years, and he’s talking about the importance of serendipity in reading for pleasure, and he drops this: The word was coined by that

Phone Cleanse

I’m going conduct an experiment, starting tomorrow, October 1st. As I’ve written about earlier, I’ve managed to get my attention back from social media/the internet enough that I’m able to focus on things for long durations if I need to. What I still have some

Two Diary Entries from 1940

I’ve been reading two collections of diary anthologies (more on these anon) which collect entries from diarists organised by the day of the year. Since I got these, I do my best to read the entry for the day. On September 24, I read this vivid entry, from The

One Thing at a Time

I wrote something similar in my post about attention, but this felt relevant to adult learning as well. I’ve been learning how to play guitar for the last month or so, and before that, for the last few years, I’ve been (slowly) teaching myself how to draw. And