Dec
10
Book report for November 2024
Letter No. 105: Includes literary prepping for Antarctica, essayism, and some very weird physics.
2 min read
Dr Essai
Essayist, photographer, walker, ciotóg.
Dec
05
Can your AI chatbot flatter me as well as Perplexity?
Letter No. 104: Contains content generated by a codestack exhibiting fine taste in literature and some confusion as to who’s who.
5 min read
Dec
01
It takes 100,000 years to produce so much beauty
Letter No. 103: Includes some faux Latin, references to German philosophy, and a plethora of inadequate adjectives.
8 min read
Nov
15
Book report for October 2024
Letter No. 102: Murderous Vikings, the lowdown on notebooks, and stuffed parrots of disputed provenance.
2 min read
Nov
06
Now what.
Letter No. 101: This should be fun.
3 min read
Nov
03
My ears are ringing and let’s not even talk about my mind
Letter No. 100 (!): A rant from the brink of American political madness, or why can’t I find the mute button?
4 min read
Oct
08
Book Report for September 2024
Letter No. 99: You may detect a self-conscious, apologetic tone.
1 min read
Oct
03
More than meets the eye, more than meets the camera sensor
Letter No. 98: Includes a few hard-to-spell place names, Vikings, and quite a lot about house paint.
5 min read
Sep
19
The exuberant chromatic paint jobs of Reykjavík
Letter No. 97: Once again, the author indulges his besottedness with color, this time after walking through Iceland with a perpetual grin on his mug.
4 min read
Sep
04
Book report for August 2024
Letter No. 96: Includes Arctic lit and disrespect for a canonical American author.
1 min read