/Lately

...updated Oct 25, 2025

Christmas: the pressure was off as most of my friends were away for the holidays. I could focus on amusing myself — what to read? what to listen to? what to eat? (see below). Went for walks. Looked at all the pretty decorations.

Starting the year: I've been enjoying myself preparing for my small web workshop (see "https://endmatter.neocities.org/smallweb") — which is good because everyone says the small web is supposed to be about pleasure!

I need to pull together my notes on Nick Monfort's ‘Taroko Gorge’ for a CDH presentation in March. The other night went to a book launch for his OUTPUT — An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953-2023 at UofT.

Reading:

• -Sirius, R. U., et al. Counterculture through the Ages : From Abraham to Acid House. Villard, 2004.
• -Robertson, Ray. The Old Man in the Mirror Isn't Me : Last Call Haiku. Exile Editions, 2020.

Listening:

• -H. Takahashi, ‘Escapism’ (2018).
• -Yoshi Horikawa, ‘Wandering’ (2012).

Eating/Cooking:

• -Stilton (bought a big hunk for the holidays!) with Abate pears — mmm.
• -more food.

Watching:

• -anime.
• -more anime.

Browsing:

• -site.
• -another site.

Walking:

• -AGO.
• -another walk.

Quotes:

“My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge.” — Laurel Schwulst

“I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as a form of resistance.” — J. R. Carpenter