Part Two of a career retrospective

CDK, Peter Falk, Wright of Derby, Michael Herr, The Train

All the news that's news.

Slow Watches, Carl Pullein, Spine Chiller, Canal house, Vivaldi

Hobonichi, Anytype, MindNode, The Assassination Bureau

A few thoughts for 2026

The wind-down should be well and truly underway here at Gravity Towers. But, typically, as everyone else is putting their feet up, I find myself midway through a movie script I really wasn't expecting to write. Such is the way of things. It's nice to know that I still enjoy what I do enough to choose to do it for pleasure sometimes. It has been a big year, from the launch of the Cartoon Gravity Club, which is still going strong, to the Kickstarter etc. I don't yet know what 2026 will bring to this community, but I want to go a little broader and a little deeper, in terms of the kinds of pieces I put up here and the regularity of posts and newsletters. To that end, I'm thinking about opening up to some guest writers (let me know if you're interested), and I'm also giving semi-serious thought to audio pieces and maybe some interviews etc. In the meantime, I want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday. Ordinarily, I would say "Let's hope 2026 is better than 2025 has been." But actually, let's just wrestle that thing to the ground from the get-go and force it to play nice. Have a good one.

Shouts and murmurs.

Jay Kelly, True Crime, Everest, The New Yorker, Landscape photographs

More of the usual nonsense.

Joachim Trier, Pocket Bullet Journals, James Cameron, The Barbican, Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bright Sword, Capacities, The Stahl House, John Truby, Typewriters

Midori Codex, Cross Peerless, Grind Coffee, Noteplan, Cinta Vidal

The Thompson Fields, Hasselblad, Homes inside ruins, The Oracle Deck, A strange hotel.

CDK, Snarky Puppy, Logitech MX4, Hauschka, Jana Carpenter

The Blacklist, Lee Madgwick, Querkywriter Keyboards, Ozone Coffee, Covent Garden

Proof of life and little else.

The Department of Truth, After the Plague, Deep Questions 373, Being Offline, Magazines.

Craft, Austin Kleon, Sven Wunder, Qobuz, Secrid.

The midweek lift.

A couple of things for your eyes and ears.

The world's best coffee machine, a new local bookshop, The Magicians, Hungarian stationery, Tony Curtis.

On rage-bait, attention farming and *waves hands* all this.

IA Writer, Last Dance, Kowloon's Walled City, Yoshitoshi Kanemaki.

5 things to improve Wednesday.