On big issues and small details
If you let them come for your milk and say nothing, next they will come for your apples, and before you know it, they come for your freedom, your life, and no amount of bleating will stop them.
On (un)healthy relationships with the metal pet
"And then I realised, geez, how dependent I have been on my cellphone. But I should confess, you know, after the first day, I felt liberated."
On how short a short story can possibly get
“I saw! I know!” "He knows! Don't go home!"
On my tsundoku pile for this year
Whatever you’re reading at the start of 2026, I wish you joy in discovering some new friends and in reconnecting with some old ones.
On waving goodbye to 2025 and saying hello to 2026
Here's to a 2026 filled with daily bread — the kind we bake for ourselves, with craft and sweat and discipline and love.
On the present and the future
Ballard's trick, or technique, or whatever you want to call it, is deceptively simple — observation, which gives the impression (especially with hindsight) of being extrapolation.
On the 88 Club
The thing I will always love about Tom Stoppard is his spectral hand in the script for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
On being more ant or being more dinosaur
Is dickishness, I wonder, a price worth paying for access to the joys and freedoms of curiosity and imagination?
On the brain being mostly right, then a little wrong
Interestingly, I have never yet met a woman who had a good word to say about Arrival.
On green ink, shenanigans and tomfoolery
"The vast majority of novels, including those with explicit scenes, use standard black ink. This keeps production costs down and follows the established norms of the publishing industry."
