• Severance and Montaigne

    The connection between the cultural phenomenon TV show Severance — which I am currently blogging about at severanceblog.com — and Michel de Montaigne is most clear in the sage’s brilliant “Of the inconsistency of our actions” essay and especially his bits and pieces quotation: We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition…

  • Translations Update

    I have completed my first round of translations, all of the Montaigne Volume 1 essays have completed round one. I’m going to go back now and standardize my process, which I invented on the fly somewhere in the middle. Once that is done, I will move on to applying any new thoughts that came up…

  • New Project: Severance Blog

    I’ve taken the last couple days to begin some Spring Cleaning of my blogs and to open up a new project. My next blog-to-book project is about the AppleTV+ series Severance, and you can find it at severanceblog.com. As for all of my other content, I’m in the process of bringing it all under this…