welcome

This is my personal website and blog. It is increasingly an online commonplace book or digital garden as I try to migrate away from blogging, though I prefer the former metaphor.

You are welcome to bookmark this website or subscribe to one of my feeds. If you have any questions or comments, or just want to say hi, by all means email me.

In addition to maintaining a grimoire and blog, I also use this website as a self-publishing platform for my fiction. The vast majority of my fiction is part of a science fantasy saga that serves as this website’s namesake: Starbreaker.

The dark lord wears white.
He already rules the world.
Now he means to save it.
He just might succeed, too...
...with a little help from his enemies.

If you want to know more, all of my novels and shorter works are available on this website.

Disclaimers

You might want to read this before continuing, but I won’t force you.

caveat lector: let the reader beware!

This is a personal website. I make liberal use of profanity in my writing and discuss topics that are not appropriate workplace reading. I publish fiction here that may not be appropriate for young or sensitive readers.

I operate this website in my leisure time and at my own expense. All opinions posted are my own unless attributed, and free to a good home. I do not speak for or represent my employers, or their clients and partners, on this website.

None of my viewpoints should be construed as neutral or objective. I am thoroughly biased. My worldview is generally irreligious, anticapitalist, and antiauthoritarian.

I am neither a journalist nor an expert in any of the topics in which I take an interest, though I make an effort to do research when writing. Nevertheless, nothing I post here should be considered factual unless independently verified. Discretion on the part of the reader is required. Children under 13 must consult a parent or guardian before reading further.

Latest Posts

2024-10-12 Recursive Bulk File Renaming
a HOWTO for renaming a bunch of files in a directory tree in a terminal with UNIX tools
2024-10-08 Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Director Todd Phillips shows that Arthur Fleck can't live up to the legend he created.
2024-10-07 Dracula (1931)
I wanted to like this classic starring Bela Lugosi, but I can only appreciate it.
2024-10-07 Power Underneath Despair: Roundup
Not all of my respondents had a single darkest hour; some still haven't come out the other side yet.
2024-10-01 Power Underneath Despair: Roundup
Not all of my respondents had a single darkest hour; some still haven't come out the other side yet.
2024-10-01 The (Plain Old) Web
I don't need a POSSE, and whether you rebrand ActivityPub as 'the social web' or not, you can keep it.
2024-09-30 Power Underneath Despair: Last Call!
This is the last call for September 2024 IndieWeb Carnival/Suicide Prevention Month submissions.
2024-09-29 RE: The Right to Remain Silent
I'm tempted to rebel against Kev Quirk's opinion, but it makes sense.
2024-09-27 Let God Speak, Dammit
She's a big God; She can use Her words and speak for Herself.
2024-09-25 The Substance (2024)
Brilliantly written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, with killer performances by Demi Moore and Dennis Quaid

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