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The Hitching Posts of Florence

April 26, 2022 Don

Around many of the old palazzos of Florence, you’ll see these sconces, made of wrought iron, with an iron hoop and sometimes with a sconce for a torch above, as […]

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Machiavelli Clearance Sale

January 21, 2019August 14, 2022 Don

I have sixteen copies of my Kickstarter special edition of Machiavelli left. They’re signed and numbered, and I’d like to clear them out as I’m starting (no really this time […]

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November Sketchbag

November 28, 2018 Don

I watched Beat Takeshi’s Zatoichi the other day and cranked out some art on the iPad using Adobe Draw. Takeshi had an incredible creatively fertile period in the 90’s and […]

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Rebuilding the Web

September 13, 2018August 14, 2022 Don

Brad Enseln has posted a nice call to action on rebuilding the Web. He argues, and I agree, that one way to reduce the dominance of social silos is to […]

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For the Union Dead

September 8, 2018September 8, 2018 Don

Finished my drawing of the Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment (you can see the work in progress here) and added some text from Robert Lowell’s […]

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Monday Sketchbag

August 20, 2018August 15, 2022 Don

A grab bag of delightful sketches and drawings from the past week

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Apple’s Unsocial Network

July 21, 2018August 14, 2022 Don

Apple skepticism is de rigueur these days, as stumbles in hardware and software (particularly MacOS software) leave observers wondering if the company has lost a step, or lost the plot […]

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Don’t Feed the Trolls, and Other Hideous Lies

July 12, 2018 Don

The pseudonymous Film Crit Hulk writes in the Verge today about the ways we have accepted troll behavior as kind of a given on the Internet, and the way that […]

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On Chernow’s Grant

July 1, 2018August 14, 2022 Don

I recently read Chernow’s Grant. It is magnificent, and continues the important work of refuting the denigration of Grant and Reconstruction by racist Twentieth Century historians of the Dunning School […]

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June 30, 2018July 2, 2018 Don

RISE UP

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