Miniver Cheevy

I have San Franciscan pride in the unique magic of the Mission burrito. But I have the good grace not to claim it is the Only Good Burrit...

An old colleague reminded me of a story about a job I did not take. It’s partly a story about the state of user experience design circa 2...

I want to never lend strength to Israel apologists who disingenuously find antisemitism in anything anyone ever says and does in the n...

Over on Bluesky , someone challenged me over my insistence that “Zionism” means neither more nor less than wanting Israel to continue to...

This has now grown beyond what a post can or should hold, so it has its own website: APSKilledMyMom.com

Andor : Star Wars    :: The Wire : cop shows    :: Deadwood : Westerns It uses Star Wars as a setting to talk seriously abo...

Rescuing a thread from the Bad Place which explains why I caught feelings from a glimpse of a tiny little street sign in the background ...

Many commentators allude to the question of “Israel’s right to exist”. Noah Berlatsky calls shenanigans on that turn of phrase in his pos...

In my wasted youth, I read most of Robert A. Heinlein’s published writing. I cannot recommend doing that. But that inheritance from my yo...

I have ambivalence about the memory of the breathlessness of the Occupy movement, but A Message From Occupied Wall Street (Day Five) st...

A fragment I created thinking about worldbuilding for a superhero TTRPG setting. The rough idea was to identify every power as using a ty...

Putting a little internet classic here for my convenience: personsonable me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of g...

I have been tinkering with a rules summary sheet for the Fate tabletop roleplaying game for a long time. A sharp-eyed forum commentato...

A capture (and slight refinement) of a bushy Bluesky discussion starting from Starfish saying: I think [older Democratic electeds] do...

I’m just an interested amateur, but I said this in an exchange with some people with rather different politics who found it clarifying, s...

It is well-known that in the original conception of the TV series Supernatural , road-tripping monster-hunting brothers Sam & D...

I wrote this in a fit of insomnia. As a kid, I inherited hatred for Richard Nixon from my parents. In the years since, I have go...