Smoked salmon is the bacon of seafood. Change my mind. 🤪
✨Changed my sites' themes. kalikambo and Mythical Type are now on mnml. Thanks, @jimmitchell!
Finished reading: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber 📚
Finally finished reading this. I found notes that I started reading this in 2023 (?!?). I did put the book down for several months, more than once.
A lot of chapters could be condensed. Plus, overall the content is depressing considering gestures around at the world.
I’m not sure I can recommend the book. But if the idea is interesting to you, check out the essay that David Graeber wrote first, that later became the basis for this book.
Today is Free Comic Book Day! Check out your local comic book store. Some public libraries participate, too!
That action figure trend but make your own art. This idea came from patouret on Instagram.
📺 The new episode of Doctor Who is proper creepy sci-fi and it’s Very Good.
I’ve been a bit quiet online lately because 1) work has been hectic, so I don’t feel like being on a computer more than I have to and 2) I was busy prepping for zine fest.
Work is still kind of hectic? (I don’t want to jinx anything.) And zine fest was a blast. So now I have open time again and hopefully I can catch up on some blogging in the coming weeks.
Recent zine mail
4/1/25
Check out these zines I got recently. 📬
Carrier Pigeon Quarterly - Spring 2025 by @joe.hohman is a guide to zines and comics that recently came out.
Food Worker - March 2025 by @deadramoneszine
Surprise zines from @seagreenzines 😃
New zine from @warglitter
A few zines from @my_name_is_ryan (Pocket Thoughts)
New zine from Robin Sloan (It’s a big tri-fold. Nice format.)
Issue 2 of Pouch arrived, and it looks amazing! The bunnies! This issue includes product reviews, journaling tips, and lots of page layouts for inspiration. Check out @pouch.studio on Instagram.
At some point in the last month or so, I read a blog post (or a newsletter?) about someone who journals both digitally and on paper. They collect screenshots and images in a document. When the page is full, they print it out and paste the images into a paper notebook.
I wanted to revisit that post, but I can’t remember where I read that. It might have been on Warren Ellis’s website (or newsletter). But I scrolled back a few months and did not find it.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Related – If you do something similar…collect stuff digitally and then print it to paste into a notebook…what’s your process like?
I found out about doodle grids, just randomly, and my brain is all 🤯
Longwood Gardens in March
3/23/25
Last weekend I went to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. I’ve been there several times in the summer and once in the winter. But never in March. Not much to see outside at this time of year, so here are photos from the conservatories.
The benefits of POSSE and newsletters
3/17/25
I’ve been using Substack to send my monthly newsletter for the past 3 years. I wanted to change to a different platform, and I wanted to remove my posts from Substack.
I reviewed my past issues on Substack to see if there was any content I wanted to keep. I wasn’t interested in re-creating past newsletter issues, but if there was something worth keeping, I could turn it into a blog post.
But here’s the thing.
The way I build my newsletter issues aligns with POSSE. I post to my sites during the month, and then I select from there what goes into the newsletter. I do add some notes, but not info that’s worth keeping (like brief commentaries on movies or TV shows I watched).
Sometimes I include zine previews in my newsletter, but eventually that info makes its way to a blog post later.
There wasn’t anything I had to migrate out of my Substack posts, because the main newsletter content comes from my sites.
This is probably my best personal example (so far) of the benefits of POSSE. Leaving Substack wasn’t a lot of work because the content I wanted to keep was already on my sites, and not exclusively on Substack.
If you’re interested in signing up for my newsletter, you can subscribe on Mythical Type.
Robin Sloan opened a shop to sell his zines. 😍
I added a few new links to my Resources page. New additions are marked with a ✨.
I updated my Now page. ✨
📺 Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (streaming on Disney+)
I really like the animation style! The colors and character designs are very inline with classic comic book art.
No spoilers, but it seems like this Peter Parker is in a different universe from Tom Holland’s Peter Parker. It’s interesting to watch out for differences.
I added a couple links to my postroll page. ✨
My February newsletter is out.
In this issue:
- Astronaut Food zine
- Lancaster Zine Fest
- More zine things
- What I’ve been watching
Canva added automatic page numbering in October, but I just found out about it yesterday. 🫨
Finished reading: Crossover Vol. 1: Kids Love Chains by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw 📚 I liked the premise, but I’m not sure I’ll read more of this series.