2026.07.DisappearingMoment: Newsletter for Airports
The words used to describe the novels that I like best are “literary” and “humor” or “funny” (see Reading, below). Most of the novels that I read are about...
2026.06.DisappearingMoment: On a Plane
My newsletter this month is a list. I am writing it from an airplane. I love air travel, jury duty, anything where I get to read or write. It is incoherent...
2026.05.DisappearingMoment: Sexy M.F.
You thought that I could not get any sexier. I was sure of it myself. Sorry, Polymarket, it happened. “Impossible,” I see in your thought bubble. “You...
2026.04.DisappearingMoment: 3 x 3 x 26
This month’s list combines the least interesting aspects of fan fiction, fantasy football, and Sudoku. Then multiplies the stupidity by a hundred. Which...
2026.03.DisappearingMoment: SFW
Thank you for helping me figure out which sections to remove from the newsletter. As distasteful as it must have been to consider my navel, y’all have a...
2026.02.DisappearingMoment: Octuple Entendre
Eight inches. In some contexts, eight inches can be enormous. Close your eyes and imagine it. Eight. Inches. Now imagine something completely different. You...
2026.01.DisappearingMoment: Meaningful Patterns in My Pareidolia
My beloved American Library Association broke my heart this month. (This was not the first time.) The details are immaterial. I have seen it happen to...
2025.12.DisappearingMoment: What's less convenient than an email? An eBook!
I started this newsletter in January 2021. For a year, it consisted of sections: Podcasts, Nerdy Software, etc. I thought that I had nothing else worth...
2025.11.DisappearingMoment: The Ways We Medicate
Imagine that you and I were the subject of an experiment. We let researchers place us in comas on November 1, 2017. They awakened us eight years later. We’ve...
2025.10.DisappearingMoment: Brettsplaining Investing
In my experience, accountability has four requirements: Truth Timeliness Legibility Storytelling No lies or errors. Reveal what you know as soon as it’s...