Just A Peck 0040 // Easter, Artemis, Raiders

Easter family group photo Issue 40 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Easter, Birster, Moon Cake, Moon Joy, Artemis II, Singing with the Stars, ex-pats, Raiders, Spielberg, Kehlmann, lab notebooks, orbital mechanics, Miyazaki, typography, banner ads, The Odd Couple, Muppet colors, and lots of other things I’m excited about.

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Just A Peck 0039 // Artemis, NASA, Hope

Artemis launch Issue 39 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention the space program, my grandpa, anime, Aki Kaurismaki, music videos, remote islands, reading modes, tall buildings, and lots of other things I’m excited about.

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Just A Peck 0038 // Construction, Drama Club, No Kings

Drama Club Leaders
Issue 38 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention construction, munchkin mediation, fasting, No Kings rallies, board games, Walter Hill, Bi Gan, Willa Cather, Gödel, crayon portraits, magnified sand, the atomic space age, seafoam green control rooms, Monet’s teenage caricatures, sorting algorithms, Windows 3.1, astrophotography, and lots of other things I’m excited about.

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Just A Peck 0037 // Detling, Project Hail Mary, MST3K

Detling Crew
Issue 37 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention college friends, board games, Project Hail Mary, MST3K, insect wings, niche museums, quiet things, postcards, computer game packaging, VHS, Lauren Groff, garage punk, low-budget 90s indie film, petri dish art, volume control UI, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0036 // Blizzard, Pie Day, Little Shop

Sunrise
Issue 36 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention blizzards, Pie Day, Little Shop, Wrecktangle Pizza, Fame, Agnes Varda, color perception, medieval manuscripts, short stories, HyperCard, pancakes, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0035 // Penka, Pella, Powers

Toddler Spencer
Issue 35 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Spencer's birthday, Sirat, windows, Hiyao Miyazaki, short films, Richard Powers, Helen DeWitt, mobile games, the Lumière brothers, the Duluth Union Depot, Harrison Ford, Minnesota celebrities, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0034 // Méliès, Slide Rules, Bald Eagles

Screenshot of Gugusse and the Automaton
Issue 34 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I talk about Méliès, Slide Rules, Bald Eagles, commercial buildings, Phantom Thread, Jarmusch, walkmen, projection mappings, marginalia, Japanese Death Poems, historic maps, dreaming big, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0033 // Board Games, Blizzards, Big Apple

Spencer, Justin, and Jody in mixed-reality glasses
Issue 33 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I talk about our trip to New York, and briefly mention board games, Back to the Future, Carnegie Hall, collective nouns, ramen, Winnie the Pooh, car trip raps, stacked ice, de-icing planes, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0032 // Surprise Party, Sickness, Soiree

Oura Ring Biometrics
Issue 32 (25) of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention suprise birthday parties, biometrics, disco parties, broke wave filmmaking, anti-memes, ice bikers, inappropriate valentines, drywall, bird data, The Empire Strikes Back, Jim Thompson, Commodore 64, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0031 // Deliverance, Dial M, Sanibel

Deliverance paperback
Issue 31 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention haircuts, Deliverance, Sanibel, the Nostromo, mass market paperbacks, day-for-night shots, knots, looms, underappreciated movies and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0030 // Ice stacking, Twin Cities, Catherine O'Hara

All of us but Kaylee at AMC
Issue 30 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention ice stacking, Catherine O'Hara, the Challenger, the Japanese New Wave, Ferrymen, ASCII rendering, 3 Musketeers candy bars, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0029 // ICE, ice, and my favorite (non-2025) watches from 2025

Rebel Alliance Loon
Issue 29 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I share my favorite (non-2025) watches/rewatches from 2025, and briefly mention ICE, ice, sea smoke, Hamnet, Joachim Trier, isometric pixel maps of NYC, the Apollo moon landing, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0028 // 2025: Favorite Reads

The Mountain in the Sea
Issue 28 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I share my favorite reads from 2025, and briefly mention brunch, boxed escape rooms, winter hikes, Duran Duran, LitRPG, Muybridge, triptychs, Michelangelo, Miyazaki, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0027 // 2025: Favorite Theater Experiences

The 39 Steps
Issue 27 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I share my favorite theater experiences from 2025, and briefly mention poker, Italo Calvino, rhythmic gymnastics, MTV, banana hammocks, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0026 // 2025 - Year in Review

Year in Review
Issue 26 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I share some of my highlights from 2025.

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Just A Peck 0025 // Birthday, Christmas, "Make Or Do"

Family photo
Issue 25 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention my birthday, Christmas, crepes, Guess Who, ball dropping, Wikipedia, ILM, Salvador Dali, Terry Gilliam, Jingle Bells (Batman Smells), Humpback Whales, penguin ornaments, baseball pitches, sink disasters, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0024 // Family, Holidays, Construction

Family photo
Issue 24 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention holiday events, game recommendations, Muppets, cookies, Wallace & Gromit, The Iliad, Adventure Games, Jane Austen, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0023 // Pynchon, Panahi, Warehouse Work

Strikepoint
Issue 23 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Strikepoint, the solstice, Rubber Chicken, The Nutcracker, Hans Gruber, Pynchon, Panahi, Varda, Muppets, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0022 // Boubville, 100 Days, DSSO

Boubville
Issue 22 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Boubville, Star Wars, funny people, Four Mile Portage, David Lynch, hurricanes, cheese, sea smoke, Disney World, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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Just A Peck 0021 // Stoppard, Snowstorms, Dictionaries

Tom Stoppard
Issue 21 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Stoppard, holiday lights, dictionaries, snowstorms, model makers, plant timelapses, nerds, Bourdain, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

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