DOCUMENT FIRST, INTERPRET LATER There is a particular kind of modern nightmare that begins innocently enough. Someone makes a comment about you. Then someone else repeats it. A friend asks…
Margaret Fuller’s Birthday and a Chimpanzee An early morning on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in South Africa still smells of woodsmoke and Impepho trodden underfoot in the…
The MAY Newsletter: Somewhere between the collapse of attention spans, the rise of artificial intelligence, the return of world wars to the nightly news, and trying to remember why we…
A Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device, FRED, has given me back my Fingerspitzengefühl, in this Room Of My Own. That is to say: it (not HE!) exists politely in my life…
An Introduction to What Forensic IT Can Establish About Social Media Stalkers It’s wonderful to be on the blogs again. Those friends who have blogged with me since the birth…
from my Substack archive: Cindy Phillips, Looking ahead, ten years after, 24 July 2025 One way I’ve come to understand my own condition is to write something and spend a…
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, Jul 11, 2025 The Bar Room and the Lecture Hall “It is always nice to see you,” Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to…
from my Substack archives: 4 July 2025 / Topics in this post, for reader discretion: Poultry Porn, things that lead to a lede, and drunk texting in a Town and…
from my Substack archives: 1 July 2025 It’s a nice day for music birthdays. There’s Jeff Wayne, turning 82 today, the guy who gave us the prophetic Jeff Wayne’s Musical…
from my Substack archives: Perfect album for today, how come I know Marla Maples, and holding on for 80 000 rabbits. Cindy Phillips, June 30, 2025 The noise of post-Glastonbury…
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