#460: Rules for Farting Around
Planning to idle – jigs and workshops – a new Instant Pot
Jack Cheng: Sunday
Sunday posts from Jack Cheng.
Latest posts
#459: Choo Choo Has an Ouchie
Object sentience – site updates – a new blog
#458: A Fistful of Firsts
Spring fun – Google I/O
#457: Sweaty Poets
Ross Gay’s basketball poems – Living Software – Jurassic Park: The Musical
#456: A Working Writer
I’m thinking about formats today. Though, it’s more accurate to say I’m often thinking about them for this newsletter. In the past, it’s been a book publishing dispatch, travelogue, link grab-bag, weekly pieces of first-draft poetry, and other, more shortly lived experiments. Since 2021, I’ve been pretty good about including a photo with every issue, though my cadence has slipped from weekly to…
#455: Find Your Crew
I got a new job
#454: Scattered and Productive
An essay on taste – Claw – long-overdue Bebop updates
#453: What the Situation Demands
Plant aggression – Pluribus – JRPGs cont’d
#452: New Year Notes
A new essay – a year of maintenance – some winter entertainment
#451: Fractal Nature of Days
Dopamine withdrawal – Peter Hujar – Light and Magic
#450: Rest or Rot
Best autumn – filling or draining – distraction Whac-A-Mole
#449: for marty
Tribute to a mentor; Fewer, Better Things; philosophical tools
#448: Twice Attested
Alexander house tour; karting; garden infantry
#447: Thermal Delight
Plus: The Night Feeling, American Animals
#446: Financial Safe Word
Plus: some recent freelance work
#445: Expansion through Compression
Recalibrating free time; on Ridley Scott’s “Layering”
#444: Induced Demand
On directing, poisoned access, and Mission Impossible.
#443: Befittingly Mysterious
Looking for daily wins; a mending circle challenge
#442: Ugly Sugar Daddy
Media diet and photos from my China trip.
#441: China Core Sample, 2025
What I’ve noticed in my first post-pandemic trip