Platypus of Truth

Well, all my grad apps are in. This time around, it's Brown, Princeton, and the University of Chicago. Wish me luck! I'll probably have news in February or early March. Best of luck to those of you out there applying to grad school this year!

Hi all! In an effort to declutter, I am now posting my thoughts on topics related to the Ancient World over at Old and Forgotten Ways . Currently, I am reposting my series on Shields and Ancient Witches from Eidos at Patheos but, in the future, I will have a new series posting there on the Greek invention of the "Barbarian". This doesn't mean that I'll be abandoning Platypus of Truth. All my thoughts on books, film, art, travel, and life will still be posting right here.

Adding some fine point pens to my collection and trying them out this week. Here, we have a illuminated manuscript doodle, a few doodles from Netflix's adaptation of Blame! and some fan art for Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle . October is almost over, and we will be watching the 2018 adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle  along with staples Coroline and Over the Garden Wall.  We are, of course, waiting for The Haunting of Bly Manor  as The Haunting  series continues. Speaking of Netflix horror offerings, I particularly enjoyed watching the French series Marianne . Fair warning, it's a binger. Also an unexpected delight was the Korean zombie flick Train to Busan . Good horror is never about the horror, but about how the horror sheds a new light on something otherwise mundane. Art, after all, is a way of seeing.