Went to see Brazil at the Brattle tonight. Wow!
Went to see Brazil at the Brattle tonight. Wow!
I wrote about 2025 in scenes: gift economies, pattern languages, one kid getting lost and found, keeping the chatbots at bay.
Best time of semester — a whole riot of finished models and also-ran models and early trashed prototypes and scraps in every direction. World building.

Our daughter just submitted her Christmas image for the church bulletin. Coming soon…


Unclear why it took me this long to read Thomas Cahill. That irreplaceable experience of seeing and hearing a lively intelligence on the page.
“Floating above the graphics are abstract sleeping babies, well swaddled and capped. A proprietary onesie and hat declare, “NYC loves me.” sarahendren.com/2025/12/0…

If, like me, you’re still enjoying homages to Alisdair MacIntyre and his long strange career, let me recommend this fine essay by Notre Dame’s Michael Baxter.
Christina Bieber Lake: “It is too facile to say that a reader learns a ‘moral’ by reading a story. What a reader learns is how to think about contingency when it appears in his or her own life…‘one learns it by guidance rather than by formula.’”