The Geecologist

Professor Sea Gull

Professor Sea Gull

Jun 20, 2026 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Throughout the nineteen-twenties Gould haunted the office of The Dial, now dead, the most highbrow magazine of the time. Finally, in its April, 1929, issue, The Dial printed one of his shorter essays, “Civilization.” In it he rambled along, referring to skyscrapers...
Persuasive Writing with AI for Non-profits

Persuasive Writing with AI for Non-profits

Sep 24, 2025 | Geekery | 0 comments

Writing compelling emails for progressive causes should be easier than writing persuasive corporate emails. This just makes sense, with some obvious exceptions. Most progressive causes align with what the majority of people already want. Flight of the Conchords joked...
J R

J R

Nov 16, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Sixteen years like living with a God damned invalid sixteen years every time you come in sitting there waiting just like you left him wave his stick at you, plump up his pillow cut a paragraph add a sentence hold his God damned hand little warm milk add a comma slip...
On Writing

On Writing

Mar 16, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do — not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad....
The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths

Apr 1, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

To Victoria Ocampo In his A History of the World War (page 212), Captain Liddell Hart reports that a planned offensive by thirteen British divisions, supported by fourteen hundred artillery pieces, against the German line at Serre-Montauban, scheduled for July 24,...