The Housekeeper and the Professor is a great book. But man, could I love this reissue’s cover any more? (Spotted at the surprisingly fun Barnes & Noble at the Grove.)

Lisa on the Fires: https://www.jasper.land/2026/01/09/lisa-on-the-fires.html

If you see them in a grocery store, why not buy some kiwifruit, quarter them, peel their hairy skin, and slurp down a few wedges of alien-green, tart-sweet flesh?

10 East and 10 West: https://www.jasper.land/2026/01/03/east-and-west.html

Zoom Zoom Revisited: https://www.jasper.land/2026/01/03/zoom-zoom-revisited.html

Keep Warm: https://www.jasper.land/2026/01/03/keep-warm.html

Puppetry and Pleasure: https://www.jasper.land/2026/01/03/puppetry-and-pleasure.html

Last week when I wrote about reading a Big Winter Book™ and taking lots of baths, I somehow neglected to include the reference photograph of Mason & Dixon resting upon the requisite next-to-bath hand-drying towel. I apologize for the oversight.

Lit-gooners of the world, unite!: https://www.jasper.land/2026/01/03/litgooners-of-the-world-unite.html

Mussel Beach: https://www.jasper.land/2026/01/03/mussel-beach.html

Gecs -> Brat: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/27/gecs-brat.html

this @sirosenbaum.bsky.social comic is so fuckin good, imo flaminghydra.com/teeth-beach-...

More melt report, courtesy of Leo: The kid saw this and said, “He’s wearing a dress!”

I’ve been reading the pamphlet, Radical Witchcraft: Oppression and Resistance, which I picked up a few years ago at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall. Lots of good stuff, including this Hitler pincushion... https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/10/ive-been-reading-the-pamphlet.html

Hunger; Edging; Intellectuals: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/10/hunger-edging-intellectuals.html

Less useful tip but more pleasureable: you can turn Apple Maps on your phone into a fidget spinner just by engaging streetview and looking straight up. (Sadly, Google Maps doesn’t let you whip around nearly as fast.)

Spam Text Opt Out Works?!: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/10/spam-text-opt-out-works.html

Zoom Zoom: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/10/zoom-zoom.html

To whoever designed this institutional thermometer’s legend, I tip my cap. That butt! That snail! That crawling child!!!

The Melt Report: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/03/the-melt-report.html

An Intercepted Signal: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/03/an-intercepted-signal.html

To Avoid Having to Experience the Experience: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/03/to-avoid-having-to-experience.html

For the Love of Slop: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/03/for-the-love-of-slop.html

The President Comes to Hollywood: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/03/the-president-comes-to-hollywood.html

Related: a skit titled “We’re the New York Times!”

Mummy Brown and Rudyard Kipling: https://www.jasper.land/2025/12/03/mummy-brown-and-rudyard-kipling.html

This GxAce video, “I Visited a Camera Lens Factory and Saw Something I Didn’t Expect” seems clearly to be a piece of sponcon. It’s also a sweet prose poem—a paean to the workers who actually make the lenses ostensibly being reviewed. An interesting artifact, beautifully made.

I hope they find Mango!

One Leo After Another: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/19/one-leo-after-another.html

Michael Jackson, Shaman: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/19/michael-jackson-shaman.html

Ground Up Ancient Egyptians: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/19/ground-up-ancient-egyptians.html

If you have some leftover pie, why not cut it up into big chunks and eat it with your hands?

A Crime Against Color: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/12/a-crime-against-color.html

Least Hierarchical: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/12/least-hierarchical.html

Seriousness Kills!: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/12/seriousness-kills.html

Yamamoto of the East (?): https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/12/yamamoto-of-the-east.html

Barnslop: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/12/barnslop.html

The Fires Last Time: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/12/the-fires-last-time.html

What Is It About Sunsets in L.A.?: https://www.jasper.land/2025/11/12/what-is-it-about-sunsets.html

All Protests Should Be This Fun: https://www.jasper.land/2025/10/20/all-protests-should-be-this.html

Quilt Zine Delight: https://www.jasper.land/2025/10/20/quilt-zine-delight.html