Ars Nihil

Apparently, International Jazz Day is a whole thing! I was originally planning on making this just a micro-post, let's just go ahead and...

Tonight I'm attempting to make a "Biff" Wellington. Beef Wellingtons are notoriously tricky and expensive to make, so I'm basically...

I've picked up a couple obsessions during the last couple days and am trying to figure out how to deal with them while also getting...

Waiting to get through the day seems to be better for doing a write-up than just doing it first thing in the morning. While it gives a...

Most of today was about cleaning up the patio for spring/summer, so the heat was welcome while spraying down the tiles (spouse did the...

"Mr. Hamilton's fight with the sea-lion" from Andrew Lang's The Red True Story Book . Today's a rainy Saturday - just getting started and...

While my spouse was at a work event last night, I decided to check out about 4-5 episodes of an anime called Sakamoto Days that was...

Woke up this morning feeling very loved by my little family and quite refreshed, so I'm carrying good vibes today. Looking at Reddit this...

For someone who's been starting and abandoning blogs for over 20 years, 100 posts is really quite something (I'm not counting Tumblr ,...

"The actor must constantly respond to stimuli that are imaginary. Although he can do things in life quite easily, when he has to do the...

I'm debating whether or not to just stop doing these daily journal entries since it seems I don't have a whole lot to add lately. I don't...

When I work on projects for my office, I usually put on earphones and either play a podcast or a playlist of my favorite songs. Last...

Not a lot to comment on - mostly focused on work and filling out during the evenings the upcoming Something Interesting post I might put...

"The Making of the Buru Quartet" by Joel Whitney (The Believer) An interesting longform piece I found several days ago through Arts &...

It's surreal the first thing I woke up to this morning is that the Pope is dead right after Easter. As far as popes go, he seemed OK as...

The willingness for how strange and period-accurate this guy is willing to go is always impressive. (Image for front page is designed by...

Easter is a big deal for my Yinzer in-laws, especially the Slovak side. This means today’s focused around a large post-Mass feast with...

Slept funny last night due to a number of strange dreams and my dog waking me up at weird hours to go out. Almost decided to go read a...

Not growing up Catholic, Good Friday was never a huge deal for my family. The Methodist Church we went to had services but I don't recall...

I only heard about Winter in passing (something about him recording this album at a Guitar Center ) and never heard of Geese before but...