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November 2025

Happy month-before-Xmas! This latest in an occasional series of newsletters has one aim and one aim only: to take you, if only for a few minutes, to a happy place. Come on, let's deny reality, just for a moment. First, I wanted to celebrate you - my uninterested,

When the YouTube Algorithm Sends Me Camping in South Korea

When the YouTube Algorithm Sends Me Camping in South Korea

We are all slaves to the Algorithm at this point – prisoners of the bubble we’ve created by consistently clicking on Daily Show clips, comic book reviews, and the endless videos of touring comedians doing crowd work. That said, sometimes the Algorithm gets a little quirky. Sometimes, it offers a

Pugs As People

Remember the Dolly Parton Challenge? Probably not; it was old and tired by the time Jordan and I made the quartet of images here. It was the first time I think I jumped on an internet meme bandwagon - and so late I probably missed. But AI allows us to

Training (the Untrainable?) Jordan

Training (the Untrainable?) Jordan

Jordan, once she settled in, turned out to be something more challenging than we’d first expected . . . an angry, protective whirlwind of intimidation and violence. Like so many tiny dogs before, she was just so full of hate. The reality of this is a little . . . stressful. She seemed very very