Felt Cinema, LLM Prose, Palmistry, Mango Popsicles

Remembering Joe Smith, Goodbye Pear, Big Numbers, Amaryllis

Flâneur of the Supermarket

slowly walking the length of the ethnic food aisle • plus: snail eyes gone broodsac, “clear as a gunshot,” mandomobile, and more

Joshua Tree Abstract

a sheaf of desert photos

Just Motes: Exuberant Moshing, Community in the Comments, Mass Protagonism, Vinegar

Ruins of a Russian Count’s Castle

“what if it required nothing more than baking and eating my favorite cake?”

Just Motes: Print’s Moment, Best Book Covers, Police State Glossary

Just Motes: The Sauerkraut Report, the Pineapple Vinegar Report, the Manuscript Report

The Zen of Tiny Books

I trimmed, folded, and bound 15 extremely tiny books • plus: the giant tarp, synth-anarchism, fog-bathing, and more

Just Motes: A Secret Abundance of Mollusks

In Praise of Reading a Big Winter Book

a big, engrossing book is a diversion, an invitation, a portal to a different world.

Eleven Short Notes on Blogging

after 509 blog posts, I have ⊹+⋆ ideas ⊹+⋆ • plus: ancient beads, driver’s license fonts, la danse as paper cutout, and more

Just Motes: That butt! That snail! That crawling child!!!

The Lightplay Gift Guide

fifteen things to buy for someone else, maybe • plus: alchemy metaphors, protection from carolers, intercepting infrared signals, and more

Just Motes: Non-Sharing, More Mummy Brown, Epstein, Orthobros

In Praise of Making a Holiday Card

more of us should make homespun holiday cards • plus: mummy brown, spectral Michael Jackson, find Mango, sweet sponcon

Just Motes: L.A. Sunsets, Barncore, Yamamoto, Anarchism

Involuntary Perspectival Shift

Despite being ten years sober from marijuana, I felt hella high all of a sudden. • plus: radio resurgence, civility as idol, ravenous spirits, papadam

An Archipelago of Life-Promoting Culture

The political possibilities suggested by the classic cookbook Wild Fermentation • plus: good policing news, a brothel’s out-of-business sign, and top picks at the David Lynch auction

In the Night Kitchen

a classic children's book about being baked into a cake • plus: treating AI as the adversary, three plinths in the desert, “The Hand,” a struggling prop house, + SPICE

Banana Waffles

a happy accident waffle recipe • plus: echoes of 2015’s political rallies, street view pride, The President the novel, + blood orange ice cream

Actual Size and the Urge to Regurge

A pair of goofy zines + magical invocation of Rosie the Riveter, goth Jimmy Butler, and protest signs

A Book for Watering Plants

The Night Riders

Tim's Oats