Issue 60 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention birthdays, APT, As You Like It, ticker-tape parades, carryout pizza, Wingspan Pocket, magicians, cryptids, Gooseberry, unforgivable kerning, Papyrus, Bob-B-Que, Twelfth Night, Castle Danger, Idiocracy, taxidermy, the Depot stage, record players, mechanical movements, woodcuts, Weird Al, adult friendship, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 59 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention poker, BigBadLaunchPad, Non-Playable Characters, Zoo School, passenger vans, Spring Green, American Players Theatre, Aaron Posner, Ionesco, Chekov, Sasquatch, Atari, the Pipes screensaver, brilliant birds, book-buying, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 58 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Mothership, Excalibur Con, monkey bums, voting, eclipses, our Anniversary, Stony Point, Iona's Beach, meat logs, Richard Brautigan, Spamalot, Twelfth Night, drums, ocean photography, award-winning nonfiction, Godard, boat names, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 57 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention work crunches, broken heat pumps, revisionist westerns, Algis Budrys, Hadestown, proto-performances, Skyline Drive, broken toes, treehouse parties, Roger Deakins, anime interfaces, Moby Dick, thrillers, Bobby Fingers, Soderbergh, Jaws, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 56 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention redwoods, anemones, the Oregon coast, Jen Silverman, fishing, Hadestown, Gilead, Gichigami Hearts, Furst Farms, Wikipedia, maps, words, museum art, Grace Cathedral, fonts, Studio Ghibli, garage punk, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 55 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention playwriting, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Elizabethan Theater, Kate Hamill, August Wilson, Marilynne Robinson, braids, castles, birds, drawing countries, the etymology of "weird", science fiction, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 54 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention wildfire smoke, 35mm, The Odyssey, Shakespeare, Amy Berryman, Grachtenpand, marine art, GM-full TTRPGs, Catcher in the Rye, short films, The Legend of Zelda, Jurassic Park, cyberpunk, aerial photographers, collages, natural history illustrations, Earth's deepest holes, digital clocks, The Blues Brothers, the Spiel des Jahres, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 53 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention the anniversary of this newsletter, dancing, My Ántonia, pinball, Bertrand Russell, pirates, Soviet control rooms, Terminator 2, State Fair foods, theories of consciousness, LEGO, Sagrada Família, Umberto Eco's library, the Milky Way, Shakespeare, 35mm projection, architectural watercolors, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 51 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Father's Day, crepes, kayaking, hernia repair surgery, Armenian avante garde film, Jacqueline Harpman, Han Kang, Susanna Clarke, Toni Morrison, Quisisana, Chrono CCG, Concerts on the Pier, the Complete Kubrick, Duluth's Fourth Fest, Starlog, penguin relationships, fictional videogame stills, sci-fi, San Diego, the origins of hacker culture, Chinese cigarettes, the Criterion Closet, fatherhood quotes, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 50 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention A Little Night Music, D&D, baby limes, Park Point, melons, Ole & Lena, tater tot hotdish, Grandma's Marathon, sunsets, Michael Mann, Dyson spheres, Jenny Offill, the NorShor Theatre, Bach, Victorian slang, mechanical watches, flip phones, rejected emoji, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 49 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention malts, burgers, glassworks, APT's Tony, intermittent fasting, weddings, window shades, new play festivals, jazz(ish) trios, book discussions, poker, Spielberg, Mumbai, herring, gravity, astronauts, Noah Webster's dislike of cats, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 48 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention the BigBadGameStore, home repair projects, The Comedy of Errors, Lauren Gunderson's Little Women, the Guthrie, Apollo 13, Alec Guinness, Dortmunder, Kate Beaton, writing, dance recitals, Kurosawa, Marjane Satrapi, bird names, book dedications, trumpets, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 47 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention deck parties, hail, early-morning movies, temperature swings, lemonade stands, flat tires, backyard marmots, 4chan, maximalism, colonialism, corridors, Thornton Wilder, the Mariana Trench, Marcia Lucas, tiny witches, The Muppet Show, '60s counterculture art, medieval notebooks, BigBadGameStore, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 46 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention the Smelt Parade, rotten stairs, miter saws, Crocs, board games, production design, Take It With You, American Players Theatre, The Comedy of Errors, Ray Nayler, Captain Carrot, star charts, DOS games, Van Gogh, Ojibwe nouns, blackout poetry, fake courtesy, clichés, typesetting, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 45 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention window tint, trolls, intermittent fasting, Duluth temps, pickles, fire pokers, garage updates, Edward Tulane, the Hindenburg's smoking room, great novels, Windows XP, Kyle Orla, childlore, punch cards, Mothership, moody book recommendations, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 44 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention birds, the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Morpheus, Natalie Portman, senior-year lasts, painted rocks, satellite typography, solar eclipses, optical illusions, woodblock prints, puffins, miniature books, Star Wars, J. Wellington Wimpy, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 43 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention the Homegrown Music Festival, theremins, Spencer's visit, kayaks, sidewalk art, GLAFA, Nausicaä, Ray Nayler, silhouettes, movie posters, the Chipmunks, Sharon McMahon, cool choreography, nature photography, flight tracking, music theory, children's books, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 42 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Corey's birthday, Seussical, SpongeBob, the Singing Statesmen, indie bookstores, Zoo School, the NorShor Theatre, Homegrown, GLAFA, Cheese Maps, bodega cats, baby names, Intellivision, and lots of other things I'm excited about.
Issue 41 of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I briefly mention Kaylee's 25th birthday, Middlemarch, Duluth theater, Mrs. Orwell, anti-fascist political activists, American English dialects, Milwaukee bus tickets, Swedish linocut posters, 8-bit typography, Guernica, GPS, retro-futurism, bird data, Seussical, the Singing Statesmen, and lots of other things I'm excited about.