First Cup of Coffee – March 17, 2025

I was going to say something pithy about the time-consuming tricks we do for social media, but you’ll have to extract that lesson yourself from my tale. Owl Crate tip-ins are done! Also: why something being your livelihood isn’t reason enough.



First Cup of Coffee – January 24, 2025

I’ve been seeing the cyclical debates on “we need ratings for books like we have for movies!” so I’m doing a Brief History of Art and Censorship in the last 100 years, why movie ratings were developed, Communism, McCarthyism, and how housework was deliberately created to keep women at home.