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Artist paints Lovecraft's Great Old Ones into all 46 of Hokusai's woodblock prints

Katsushika Hokusai drew tentacled sea creatures in the 1800s. H.P. Lovecraft built a mythology around them in the 1920s. Japanese illustrator Goki Yamada has now put them together in Thirty-six Views of Evil Gods (邪神三十六景), a 128-page art book that inserts Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and other Great Old Ones into every plate of Hokusai's famous ukiyo-e series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" — the woodblock prints that gave us "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."

We're down to sub ~250ms load times now that I've moved the site behind the Bunny.net CDN! Additionally, I've added swipe support to photos. Web Mentions may or may not be fully functional at this point as well. I'll update last week's post with more of the changes for those interested.

Poem type for Creative Works in Schema

I proposed this addition to the Schema Bib Extend Community Group in 2015, and then fell off following the discussion. I probably wasn't the first, but I wrote the proposed schema itself. Turns out, it was accepted some years later. This my first real contribution to the web of any substance. Now that AI is using Schema to help ingest data, I'm hoping more folks find it and find it useful.

Just a note: I made the move from Nuxt to Astro, and in the process dusted off a few things around here. I’ll do a more detailed writeup soon. If things are breaking, do a hard refresh.

Other People's Email

Permafrost Magazine — Non-fiction

I get lots of other people's email, but this time was different. This is the first non-fiction I've published, about scams, relationships, and private communication on the public internet.

The Rules of Fear

Now that I'm an adult, you'd think the logic of my rules would be more complete, but the logic remains the same.

I Don't Understand Poetry

I must admit something, and it's embarrassing: I don't understand a lot of poetry... On paper, I've got all the tools I need. Then why do I feel like such a confounded failure?

On Feeling Alive

This is the promise of van-life. To live bold so that every moment feels, if not planned, deliberate. Earned. Well spent. Alive.

On Forgetting

There are some memories we think we'll never forget. And that may be true, especially of life's defining moments. A first kiss. A winning shot. Famously, the first time experiencing ice. How could we ever let them go?

A RedMonk Conversation: Documenting the Alternative Cloud

RedMonk — Documentation

I sat down with KellyAnn Fitzpatrick of RedMonk to discuss documentation and the alternative cloud. At Linode, we are a very public documentation team: we work in the open on GitHub using Docs as Code, and we document use cases and learning paths in addition to our own products. It helps that we are on the Marketing team; that gives us a different perspective on documentation's reach, and the leaway to take advantage of that perspective.

Winner, Tampa Bay Hotel / Plant Hall Beautiful-Weird-Cool-Spooky Old Place Writing Contest

University of Tampa

Finalist, Norton Girault Poetry Prize

Old Dominion University

ASPEC Mason Daly Poetry Award

Eckerd College