Currently Reading: THE ODYSSEY by Homer (Emily Wilson translation) For Mara Whitefish

Recently Read: ART CAT by Smith Street Books

I often see Hazel on my bed, and less frequently Spencer, but it's rare that I see them both on my bed at the same time.

I think I may have finally figured out the cause of the Facebook issues that have been plaguing me: a conflict with a third-party extension that I thought I had turned off, but which has actually been on for awhile now. I've deleted it, so now I'll have to see if that helps things any

As a comic strip BALDO is usually insufferably lame (like most modern comic strips it tends to recycle the same 4-5 jokes on a weekly basis), but I'll give this one a pass. Okay, it's because of the lady in yellow, so sue me.

Ever since my Facebook profile got hacked 2 years ago the glitchiness has never really gone away: posts sometimes vanish, people disappear from my Friends list, entire DM chats get erased, etc. It's very annoying and I've been considering deleting it entirely, it's just I have so much history there

Also Currently Reading: THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. Le Guin For Rosetta Welch

Currently Reading: THEATRE OF THE WORLD by Frances A. Yates

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality." -Virginia Woolf

Yeah, because the first thing that pops into my head when thinking about Le Fanu's classic Gothic novel UNCLE SILAS is V for Vendetta

NOW we're talking! simulationdaily.com/news/crusade...

Sometimes when Hazel is on my bed she looks like she's watching a ghost flying around behind me

Okay, I'm suddenly reminded why I skipped the 2024 NecronomiCon. Back then a general pass cost $160, which I thought was outrageous at the time. But now it's gone up even higher! as for single day tickets being $80+, well: back in 2013/2015, $80 got you a pass for like the entire 3 day event!

What I'm thinking in my head these days at work after the 10th phone call in a row where someone asks "You guys got any NeeDoh in stock?" Runner up: Pokémon cards

Currently Reading: A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by Virginia Woolf

Per: my own request, my first two collections, GRIMOIRE and AUTOPSY OF AN ELDRITCH CITY, will no longer be available through Rebel Satori Press. All rights have reverted back to me. Having said that, I'm in no hurry to rush them back to print.

Also Currently Reading: DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter

New Substack article, where I reminisce on my college years: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Currently Reading: AGAINST INTERPRETATION by Susan Sontag

Currently Reading: THE ELIZABETHANS by A. N. Wilson

Currently Reading: ALL ABOUT LOVE: NEW VISIONS by bel hooks

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