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Montecristi, Dominican Republic, March 2025 Good morning (12:01 a.m., as I write this), all.It's been a long day! Thankfully, though, it's not been a long winter. Moving to Georgia has provided my freeze-baby soul with a great boon: short winters and longer springs and falls. In Iowa and Connecticut, where I lived for longer periods of time, the outside world basically became unbearable for me for…
Basilica Nuestra Señora De La Altagracia in Higüey, Dominican Republic. Taken in March. Summer is here, and with it a new set of moods, activities, reflections, and stirrings. I love summer very deeply. While I am also moved by the transitional seasons of spring and autumn, there is something about summer that is hard to put my finger on. It is a season of physical activity and outdoor…
The windswept shores of Acadia National park, Maine, U.S.A. Taken last month. This post's title may make it seem as though I've gone cross-eyed, and, in a way, I suppose I have. My future eye is already looking to tie up loose ends as I finish my Ph.D. My dissertation is complete, defended, and in the final stages of edits. A major job interview within two weeks. Graduation in less than a month.…
Good evening, all,Stormwind Ark article up and running. Please let me know if you see any egregious mistakes; I was sick for a bit, and my mind still seems somewhat foggy. (Getting better, I hope.)Life goes on: dissertation, applying for jobs (among my least favorite activities), work, scholarship, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum. Despite the list, I love it all. Hope you're all well, Talbot Dusk at…
Hey, all,I'll be doing a Q&A with Linktober's Creator Con on Saturday, June 15. The time hasn't been decided yet, but I've opted for a slot in the late morning or early afternoon, EST. If you have any questions for me that you'd like me to know up front, please submit them here: https://forms.gle/gvt6WRzLrsDe48EEAIf it's a simple question or you just want to hang out, no need to prepare anything…
Sundown by George Inness (1884) Hello, all, It's been a while, hasn't it? I've been as busy as I've ever been this semester, which has left precious little time for Zelda. (I have been spending my scant free time reading Hesse and Eliot and playing Oracle of Seasons/Ages.) All that being the case, I have finally finished my Tears of the Kingdom review (which has kindly been helped along by a few…
San Antonio Missions, Texas — Mission San José Howdy, folks, I realized about a year ago that the riddles needed some love. They had been in autopilot for a while, and so I decided to reorganize them with a close friend. Most remain in the same place, many have moved, and some have been rewritten. They have all, I hope, been made better. The balance between beginning, middling, and…
Well, a new Zelda game is once again upon us. Tears of the Kingdom (as is news to no one at this point) drops tomorrow. Already the reviews are rolling out, but I'm avoiding them like lice. (A good review is like a good stew: it takes a lovely simmering of a good many things over a long period of time.)To mark the occasion, I just finished the article on Hyrule's Lodges, which is now up. Happy…
West Lake, Hangzhou, China. Taken by me. Well, it's been a while, which is par for the course. Life goes on, with me feeling like butter scraped over too much bread. Welcome to modernity, eh? But, overall, I'm as content as a clam doing what I'm doing. Life is continually interesting, and I've no complaints. (And what good does complaining do, anyway?)New article up on Monster Strongholds in…
More and more I feel like these three absurd apes building a trestle table: I have vague pretensions to understanding or knowledge, but then I realize my primate fallibility and wonder just what my trestle table is for: is it a firm foundation for understanding, a platform for greater knowledge, or just a nice place to sit and eat bananas? Ultimately, it's a bit of all three. I really do view…