It seems like it has been another year of distractions and head-hopping between all my various interests and hobbies. I had really wanted to start a weekly column here on the blog and I keep thinking I should try again, but when I start to write the essays I realize I have very little I …
Uncle Josh on Impatience and the Pixel 7
My phone, a hardy Samsung Galaxy S7, has been through some rough times and got old. The battery life was measured in minutes, not hours. I could not find a case that didn’t lift the protective screen up enough to turn it into a touch-insensitive surface. The screen protector itself had taken several blows and …
Uncle Josh on Fucking Up
This week, and part of last week, and the week before, seem to be a deluge of fuck-ups. Not current fuck-ups, either, but things I fucked up weeks ago that nobody noticed until this week. It’s a haunting of past mistakes. Many of them are oversights and there are quite a few false memories involved …
Uncle Josh on Uncle Josh
One of the lies I tell myself regularly is that I’m a writer. Only I haven’t written fiction in months, and I haven’t edited any of the work I have written, and I haven’t submitted anything for a long time, either. So can I call myself a writer anymore? I have several non-personal writing assignments. …
Uncle Josh Checks In on the Multiverse
Multiverses are the THING these days. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has already started exploring theirs, Marvel Comics has been doing it for years (see Cable/Nate Grey/Nathan Summers/Stryfe/Starglint), DC has done it informally and might be doing something in their TV show (I read on the geekfeeds that they got Michael Keaton[1]the best Batman to rubber …