The A24 Movie Log: A Brief Review
A couple weeks ago, I decided I wanted to start keeping a film journal to track my increasingly frequent movie watching. Previously, I’d just been keeping...
Author: Shawn Mihalik
AI doesn’t belong in journaling | The Verge
AI doesn’t belong in journaling | The Verge At my demo, Google told me the idea was to make journaling easier — much in the way that Gemini simplifies other wri...
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump | The New Yorker
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump | The New Yorker The book opened like a flower, like a hinge, like a butterfly, like a pair of hand...
Four Inked Pens
I own seventeen fountain pens. That’s a lot less than many people, I know, but to most people, especially those who don’t care about pens or stationary, it’s a ...
A Type-In to Say Goodbye to a New England Institution
A Type-In to Say Goodbye to a New England Institution In 1980, Mr. Furrier was working for a tree trimming company when his childhood friend and neighbor, Teddy...
Learning What I Like (and My First Vintage Pen)
At the end of the first day of last year’s California Pen Show, because I had about $600 left in my budget for the weekend, I impulse-bought a Sailor Cylint. Li...
One New Desk, Three Modes
For the last few years, I’ve worked at a simple white Amazon Basics sit-stand desk. When I bought it, I was still deeply into the whole “minimalist” aesthetic, ...
I Write Novels with Fountain Pens
Ricardo, over at Extra Fine Writing, asks the question “Does anyone actually use a pen to write a novel?” When I hear that some famous author drafts their novel...