Proud to formally announce my book, AUGUSTA: AN AMERICAN MUSE, coming in 2027. AUGUSTA expands on my November 2024 profile for @VanityFair, the second most read piece in the magazine that year, to cover the full half decade relationship between Augusta Britt and Cormac McCarthy.

Drinking is very constructive. There’s something about that first flush that is very masculine. It’s like breaking through a dark wood at evening and stumbling upon something lighted. Everything is open from there. The flip side is that it is very feminine to be taken in by it. I think that’s where addiction to it breaks in: you set yourself up to conquer it this time, over and over and over again. In that sense it becomes like breathing and orgasm. A regular test of virility. The fight against it feminizes the body. But to never take it up is to never set your masculinity at hazard. No clue what it must feel like for women.

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys ride again! Hie to the battlements of Fort Ticonderoga ye Loyalist landjobbers! He’ll have all of Quebec before he’s through!

I need help from AI developers for an ambitious project. DM me! Ancient Greek mathematicians did not recognize zero as a number. They very nearly invented calculus 2000 years before Newton without using zero, but positive geometrical magnitudes instead. I want to train an AI on the furthest advancements of Ancient Greek mathematics, geometry and the Parmenidean precept that non-being (zero) cannot exist, and introduce it to experimental observations of classical quantum mechanics. I want quantum observations to be interpreted in an entirely different mathematics that does not admit of nothingness, non-being, non-quantity, zero, etc. to see if it reveals relationships obscured by our modern mathematics, makes major breakthroughs, or hits the same road block.

"I love being this close on your face. I'm so tight on your face right now."