Currently Reading: THE WEARY BLUES by Langston Hughes For Prof. Jemima Walsh

Currently Reading: BAD ASIANS by Lillian Li

New Substack post: in which I list 10 of the writers who had the biggest influence on me as a writer during my formative pre-college years, from early childhood to my Senior year at high school: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Hazel's not really a lap cat with me but she is a "curls up between your legs if you're in bed" cat (I could say the same about Spencer, but that's a less frequent occurrence)

Currently Reading: BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER by Herman Melville For Prof. Perkins

Also Currently Reading: WHEN THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED by Emi Yagi

Currently Reading: CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS by Sigmund Freud For Lily

Currently Reading: CAT DREAMS by Ursula K. Le Guin

I finished my first playthrough of PERFECT TIDES: STATION TO STATION yesterday! I decided to post my review of it on my new Substack (mostly free of major spoilers). Anyway, I highly recommend it! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Also Currently Reading: WHY NOT ME? by Mindy Kaling I found Kaling's first book very amusing so I hope the second doesn't disappoint

Currently Reading: THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE by Frances A. Yates

Andy Warhol, "Cat in Front of Church" (1959)

Currently Reading: SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS: THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED POEMS by William Shakespeare

Currently Reading: CATS, CATS, CATS by Andy Warhol

Today is the launch day for PERFECT TIDES: STATION TO STATION! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUK...

A list of some of the more commonly encountered reoccurring elements + in-jokes that oft appear in my fictions: jameschampagne1.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...

Also Currently Reading: THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD PICTURE by E. M. W. Tillyard

Currently Reading: GODZILLA MINUS ONE by Takashi Yamazaki

BEFORE SUNRISE (1995)

Today I watched the movie IKIRU (1952), one of the films I had gotten as a Christmas gift last year. I really enjoyed it, a very lovely made and emotionally harrowing film, well-directed and with a great lead performance by Takashi Shimura.

Also Currently Reading: THE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONS by Émile Zola This is the second book of his I've picked up, the first being NANA a few years ago

One final 2025 summary report, this one in regards to my health

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: December (Finale) onyxglossary.blogspot.com/.../2025-rea....

I will share a secret with you that until now only a small percentage of the human race knew: this year peaked on March 8, 2025, when Lady Gaga appeared on SNL www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrPN...

2025 Creative Writing Productivity Report

Merry Christmas! Here's a picture of a Santa ornament I made in 1999. I think I was trying to be "edgy" then . . .

The Insect's Christmas (1913) www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_dL...

Aaron Lange interviews Justin Isis, one of my favorite people to argue/disagree with! All joking aside, there are some areas on which we stand on common ground. neopasseism.substack.com/p/justin-isi...

Currently Reading: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway This is actually a reread. I first read the book in 10th grade, around 1996, so it's been almost 30 years

I recently found out that years ago there was an OCTOPUS PIE Christmas video of sorts vimeo.com/8303495

Currently Reading: CONSCIOUSNESS: A NEO-DECADENT MANIFESTO by Siobhán M. La Grippe (Church Ghost)

Currently Reading: PASSIONS AND TEMPERS: A HISTORY OF THE HUMOURS by Noga Arikha I think I'm going to REALLY enjoy this book, having long had a fascination with the humours, a fascination which has only increased in recent years what with my readings + researches into medievalism & Shakespeare

Currently Reading: LIKE YOU HAVE A CHOICE by Ivan Niccolai

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: November onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...

You know it's the end of November when I put up my annual Cat Nativity Scene. The Bradford Exchange only sent me one figurine this year (the Traveling Musician), which is for the best because I'm running out of space (and also, these things are expensive).

Neo-Decadents vs. AI. My own contributions to this series are usually 50% serious, 50% joking around, but this time the gloves come off and I let my hair down (so to speak).

Currently Reading: THE BROKEN SPEARS: THE AZTEC ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO by Various/Edited by Miguel León-Portilla

Currently Reading: THE OBLATE by J.-K. Huysmans (Dedalus) This is the second time I've read this book, though the first time I've ever read this particular translation

Currently Reading: PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE by me (Purple Bearded Uncle)

My author copies of PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE arrived in the mail today! It's always nice to be able to add a new member to my humble family of titles.

Currently Reading: THE ABSENCE: MEMOIRS OF A BANSHEE DRUMMER by Budgie

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: October onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

Currently Reading: THE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW SPAIN by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (edited by David Carrasco)

Recently got a new friend for my bookcase skull

Currently Reading: THE DECADENT BESTIARY: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE ANIMAL POEMS & PROSE by Various Authors/Translated by Sam Kunkel + Jessica Gossling (Strange Attractor Press)

Currently Reading: SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW by Tom King (writer) & Bilquis Evely (artist)

My 19th-century French Decadent short novel PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE has been published by Purple Bearded Uncle! You can order it here: purplebeardeduncle.com/pulp-fin-de-...

Also Currently Reading: FIFTH SUN: A NEW HISTORY OF THE AZTECS by Camilla Townsend

Currently Reading: SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon