Ars Nihil

While I've been more focused on other things, I also want to take a moment to acknowledge that today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day (...

This is going to be a busy weekend for me for reasons I'll explain on Sunday/Monday but mostly gearing up to be out and about with...

For some good ol' queer swashbuckling fun, here's a few videos about one of the coolest women in history, the French opera singer Julie...

Stonewall is often the key event when talking about LGBTQ+ rights here in the United States but there was an equally important event...

Chess boxing is one of those weird things I've come across here and there throughout the years, so I finally looked into some videos and...

Same story as before: sunny, hot, nothing of real note. Been listening to this week's Behind the Bastards about the scientist behind the...

Today was apparently National Cheese Day but also only one of many cheese days . Regardless of whether this was the superior Cheese Day,...

I asked my spouse - a Queer both personally and professionally - what some good post topics for Pride Month could include. They...

One of the best aspects about public domain is that people find ways to gather cool things and spruce them up to showcase them in...

Found out recently that Nozomi Entertainment (the successor to the anime retailer known to 1990s anime fans as Right Stuf ) has been...

Nothing major today, just working and holding down the fort. Sunny outside so might take advantage of that later on but also thinking it...

Lao Gan Ma ( 老干妈) ("Old Grandmother") is a Chinese condiment brand that apparently makes an amazing meat-infused black bean chili crisp...

Today's pretty light - spouse is busy with work stuff and I'm focused on the house and my own work. Did see a video this morning that was...

Don’t know if this would fall under Pride Month stuff but the episodes about Liam Kyle Sullivan on Jamie Loftus's podcast Sixteenth...

While I've built up a large set of knowledge regarding popular music, I'm still a relative neophyte when it comes to understanding...

One of the frustrating parts of writing these journal posts is that there's actually some interesting things I can talk about but I feel...

This weekend was dedicated to kicking off Pride Month with a two-day cornhole tournament, which we somehow (miraculously) won! Weather...

The Dutch YouTube channel Hoog does a lot of cool videos, especially about places that are hard to access for outsiders. One such place...

"I’d Like to Report a Murder" by Hannah Baer, Lauren Oyler, and Brandon Taylor (Pioneer Works) A lively conversation between literary...

Sometimes, these micro-posts are also going to just be lists or short definitions of cultural literacy-kind of things. Here's one of...