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A most excellent – and promising – first and second date.

Bourbon and grapefruit: a cautionary tale.

Caligula appointed his horse to the senate to humiliate the senators. Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for the same reason.

I talk to myself for an hour a day now, and I’m drowning in the transcripts.

The title says it all.

Writer’s block is a bitch.

I have a super-hot fantasy that I can’t tell you about!

I fed my blog to an AI and it understood me better than most humans do.

I swapped the subway for a bike, and lost two hours of daily writing time. So naturally, I built an AI-powered voice memo pipeline to recapture it.

The core fantasy is unchanged, cast in amber. But my relationship to it — and to the distance between fantasy and reality — has shifted profoundly.