I did some "Easy Cooking" over the weekend, and wrote up some notes on what I did, how well it came out, and what I learned: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/easy-cooki...

Easy Cooking

Some elements of creative meal engineering

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Music Week: all the reviews that are fit to print this week, with a (slightly) expanded introduction: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week: select reviews from week 3 of October: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/music-week...

Music Week (10:3)

A few select reviews from week 3 of month 10 (October 2026).

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Music Week: 41 albums, 3 A-list, all the details and more introduction, including a dig at X: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week (10:2): 8 select reviews from this week's haul: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/music-week...

Music Week (10:2)

A few select reviews from week 2 of month 10 (October 2026)

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Apocalypse: Remembering Oct. 7, 2023 with Hussein Agha and Rob Malley: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/apocalypse...

Apocalypse

What happened on (and after) October 7, 2023.

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I added Robert Christgau's Xgau Sez: October, 2026 to his website: robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php?...

Music Week (10:1): 6 select reviews (from 40 albums this week): notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/music-week...

Music Week (10:1)

A few select reviews from week 1 of month 10 (October).

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I look back at my 16k word Loose Tabs post, and try to get to the heart of it, where unfortunately I find Trump and these clowns: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/loose-tabs...

Loose Tabs (9)

Further notes on the news of September.

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Loose Tabs: 328 links, 16414 words: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week (Sept. 26): 38 albums, 14 A-list, some new but also lots of long-neglected (at least by me) classics. tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week (9:4): select reviews from this week's haul, including much older music: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/music-week...

Music Week (9:4)

A few select reviews from week 4 of month 9 (September)

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I was a serious geography buff by the time I turned 5, so I WorldLE has been my game since I first discovered it. I can struggle a bit with the islands, but I almost never miss something continental. So sure, I got this one, but it's the first time it's appeared: worldle.teuteuf.fr

Worldle - Guess the Country

A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.

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Music Week: 34 albums, 6 A-list, better late than never introduction: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week (9:3): notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/music-week...

Music Week (9:3)

A few select reviews from week 3 of month 9 (September)

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Music Week: 29 albums, 9 A-list: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week (9:2): Select reviews from the 2nd week of September: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/music-week...

Music Week (9:2)

A few select reviews from week 2 of month 9 (September)

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I never got the point of "never forget," but seeing as how 25 years is exactly one third of my life, I thought I'd revisit what I wrote back then on the day/week/month/year, and see how it holds up today: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Remembering 9/11

Notes from a highly personal turning point

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Back to 2025 Jazz: 16 albums most people missed from my The Best Jazz Albums of 2025 list: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/back-to-20...

Back to 2025 Jazz

Remembering the best of the year’s unsung albums.

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New post on some of 2025's best non-jazz albums. Specifically, ones that few other people noticed: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/back-to-20...

Back to 2025 Non-Jazz

Remembering the best of the year’s unsung albums.

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Music Week up: 37 albums, 3 A-list, more introduction, including website notes: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week (9:1): 8 select album reviews for the first week of September: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/music-week...

Music Week (9:1)

A few select reviews from week 1 of month 9 (September).

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I did a rare database update to Robert Christgau's website, so now every album reviewed through August 2026 is accounted for (recent reviews refer back to his Substack, but the listings and grades are there). List of 2026 reviews: robertchristgau.com/get_elist.ph...

I posted a piece to my Notes on Everyday Life newsletter. It is a substantially edited version of an introduction I originally wrote for Music Week, mostly about possible writing ideas: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/more-intro...

More Intro Ideas

Rehashing a Music Week introduction with more and more ideas

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John Ganz on Trump's use of tariffs to channel graft. What's "third world" about this is that countries that are poor stay poor because their leaders loot them. Trump's tariffs are thinly masked looting: www.unpopularfront.news/p/trumps-thi...

Trump’s Third-Worldism

Nothing Left but the Mess

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My first future Loose Tabs link means we'll have more to say about Data Centers, AI, and the billionaires perverting American politics: prospect.org/2026/08/31/d...

Big Tech Crashes Headlong Into American Democracy - The American Prospect

The AI oligarchs thought they could stuff data centers down the throats of the American people. They thought wrong.

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Music Week: 38 (plus?) albums, 12 A-list, massively rewritten introduction: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Loose Tabs (8:2): Additional comments on re-reading my Loose Tabs post, covering most of August: notesoneverydaylife.substack.com/p/loose-tabs...

Loose Tabs (8:2)

Further notes on the news of August.

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Loose Tabs: news, links, and comments on much of what happened in August 2026 (330 links, 20766 words): tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Music Week (the complete, unexpurgated version): 41 albums, 6 A-list, more intro, more of everything (except graphics social media can find): tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...