#Spooktober 26: Katsukawa Shun’ei “Ghost Stories”

October 26, 2022

Katsukawa Shun’ei (1762 – 1819) is a Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e aesthetics. Today on my Patreon we take a look at his 1790 Book of Ghost Stories preserved at the MET.

books and literature

Arthur Machen’s Ornaments in Jade

Arthur Machen (1863–1947), born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was an influential Welsh novelist and essayist widely regarded as a forerunner of 20th-century Gothic science fiction and a pioneer of “weird fiction,” so it’s a man after my own heart. Machen lived most of his life in

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movies and tv

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die — and Other Things We Say Instead of Grieving

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a 2025 science fiction comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) and written by Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying). It was released early this year, but I just got around to seeing it now.

June 20, 2026 9:00 am

games, gamification and rpg

Why LEGO? Medium and Mode in the theory of LEGO® Serious Play®

Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Bricks? You wouldn’t believe it, but there’s a question I get asked, in various forms, every single time I introduce LEGO Serious Play to a professional audience. Sometimes it comes as a practical concern: “Do we really need the

June 19, 2026 9:00 am