Colin Howells
@colinhowells.com
Wishes he was a headlight on a northbound train
Now #reading:
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann trans. John E. Woods, 1993)
Cannot put this down, fantastic. For TV people, there is a 1979 adaptation: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Gustav Mahler (Jens Malte Fischer trans. Stewart Spencer, 2013)
Extremely lucid bio, comprehensive and even-handed
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann trans. John E. Woods, 1993)
Cannot put this down, fantastic. For TV people, there is a 1979 adaptation: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Gustav Mahler (Jens Malte Fischer trans. Stewart Spencer, 2013)
Extremely lucid bio, comprehensive and even-handed
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Now #reading:
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann trans. John E. Woods, 1993)
Cannot put this down, fantastic. For TV people, there is a 1979 adaptation: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Gustav Mahler (Jens Malte Fischer trans. Stewart Spencer, 2013)
Extremely lucid bio, comprehensive and even-handed
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann trans. John E. Woods, 1993)
Cannot put this down, fantastic. For TV people, there is a 1979 adaptation: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Gustav Mahler (Jens Malte Fischer trans. Stewart Spencer, 2013)
Extremely lucid bio, comprehensive and even-handed
Reading (finally):
#Schattenfroh (Michael Lentz trans. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich, 2025)
overcast.fm/+x6bYvbi8g
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...
#Schattenfroh (Michael Lentz trans. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich, 2025)
overcast.fm/+x6bYvbi8g
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reading (finally):
#Schattenfroh (Michael Lentz trans. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich, 2025)
overcast.fm/+x6bYvbi8g
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...
#Schattenfroh (Michael Lentz trans. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich, 2025)
overcast.fm/+x6bYvbi8g
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...
Reading:
After rereading Vineland ahead of new PT Anderson, on to prep for #Schattenfroh
From 1810, absolutely hilarious: Michael Koolhaas (Heinrich von Kleist trans. Michael Hofmann, 2020)
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Lyndal Roper, 2025) – lecture: youtu.be/xuB6mNJEjVc
After rereading Vineland ahead of new PT Anderson, on to prep for #Schattenfroh
From 1810, absolutely hilarious: Michael Koolhaas (Heinrich von Kleist trans. Michael Hofmann, 2020)
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Lyndal Roper, 2025) – lecture: youtu.be/xuB6mNJEjVc
September 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Reading:
After rereading Vineland ahead of new PT Anderson, on to prep for #Schattenfroh
From 1810, absolutely hilarious: Michael Koolhaas (Heinrich von Kleist trans. Michael Hofmann, 2020)
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Lyndal Roper, 2025) – lecture: youtu.be/xuB6mNJEjVc
After rereading Vineland ahead of new PT Anderson, on to prep for #Schattenfroh
From 1810, absolutely hilarious: Michael Koolhaas (Heinrich von Kleist trans. Michael Hofmann, 2020)
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Lyndal Roper, 2025) – lecture: youtu.be/xuB6mNJEjVc
Maybe my favorite 2000AD cover
September 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Maybe my favorite 2000AD cover
Current reading:
Milo Manara – Caravaggio: bio filled with gorgeous art references (Paranesi etc) and classic Manara women
www.fantagraphics.com/products/car...
Dante – Divine Comedy, trans. Mandelbaum: picking a translation is difficult!
Excellent lecture series:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Milo Manara – Caravaggio: bio filled with gorgeous art references (Paranesi etc) and classic Manara women
www.fantagraphics.com/products/car...
Dante – Divine Comedy, trans. Mandelbaum: picking a translation is difficult!
Excellent lecture series:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
August 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Current reading:
Milo Manara – Caravaggio: bio filled with gorgeous art references (Paranesi etc) and classic Manara women
www.fantagraphics.com/products/car...
Dante – Divine Comedy, trans. Mandelbaum: picking a translation is difficult!
Excellent lecture series:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Milo Manara – Caravaggio: bio filled with gorgeous art references (Paranesi etc) and classic Manara women
www.fantagraphics.com/products/car...
Dante – Divine Comedy, trans. Mandelbaum: picking a translation is difficult!
Excellent lecture series:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
August 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A lesser-known Steve Moore/Alan Moore thing
Eclipse was a great ride while it lasted: I will always love them for Miracleman, though they put out a lot of fun stuff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...
Eclipse was a great ride while it lasted: I will always love them for Miracleman, though they put out a lot of fun stuff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...
August 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
A lesser-known Steve Moore/Alan Moore thing
Eclipse was a great ride while it lasted: I will always love them for Miracleman, though they put out a lot of fun stuff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...
Eclipse was a great ride while it lasted: I will always love them for Miracleman, though they put out a lot of fun stuff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...
By the way there's a subscription available for PBS, called 'Passport', which you can set to benefit Cascade, I believe: www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
July 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
By the way there's a subscription available for PBS, called 'Passport', which you can set to benefit Cascade, I believe: www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
Reading:
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2010)
Given not that much is known about Caravaggio, this is filled with informative and rich historical context, and insightful analysis of the paintings. Extremely enjoyable
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2010)
Given not that much is known about Caravaggio, this is filled with informative and rich historical context, and insightful analysis of the paintings. Extremely enjoyable
July 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Reading:
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2010)
Given not that much is known about Caravaggio, this is filled with informative and rich historical context, and insightful analysis of the paintings. Extremely enjoyable
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2010)
Given not that much is known about Caravaggio, this is filled with informative and rich historical context, and insightful analysis of the paintings. Extremely enjoyable
Reading:
Goethe – Faust Pt 1, trans. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth & Frederick Turner (Turner supplies an excellent introduction to themes): store.deepvellum.org/products/faust
PK Dick – The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, in the LOA edition: www.loa.org/books/305-va...
Goethe – Faust Pt 1, trans. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth & Frederick Turner (Turner supplies an excellent introduction to themes): store.deepvellum.org/products/faust
PK Dick – The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, in the LOA edition: www.loa.org/books/305-va...
July 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reading:
Goethe – Faust Pt 1, trans. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth & Frederick Turner (Turner supplies an excellent introduction to themes): store.deepvellum.org/products/faust
PK Dick – The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, in the LOA edition: www.loa.org/books/305-va...
Goethe – Faust Pt 1, trans. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth & Frederick Turner (Turner supplies an excellent introduction to themes): store.deepvellum.org/products/faust
PK Dick – The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, in the LOA edition: www.loa.org/books/305-va...
Reading:
The Kingdom (Emmanuel Carrère trans. John Lambert, 2017)
The English-language reviews of this … nonfiction novel? Religious memoir? are excoriating but I think the book is incredible, with an ineluctable prose style which I can’t put down
The Kingdom (Emmanuel Carrère trans. John Lambert, 2017)
The English-language reviews of this … nonfiction novel? Religious memoir? are excoriating but I think the book is incredible, with an ineluctable prose style which I can’t put down
June 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reading:
The Kingdom (Emmanuel Carrère trans. John Lambert, 2017)
The English-language reviews of this … nonfiction novel? Religious memoir? are excoriating but I think the book is incredible, with an ineluctable prose style which I can’t put down
The Kingdom (Emmanuel Carrère trans. John Lambert, 2017)
The English-language reviews of this … nonfiction novel? Religious memoir? are excoriating but I think the book is incredible, with an ineluctable prose style which I can’t put down
Oops, hit publish before I added this cite: markets.businessinsider.com/news/etf/app...
June 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Oops, hit publish before I added this cite: markets.businessinsider.com/news/etf/app...
Reading:
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell: lesser-known Middle East religions (Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Copts ...) youtube.com/watch?v=WNlC...
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins – journo travels with Afghan refugees, 2016 coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell: lesser-known Middle East religions (Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Copts ...) youtube.com/watch?v=WNlC...
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins – journo travels with Afghan refugees, 2016 coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...
May 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reading:
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell: lesser-known Middle East religions (Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Copts ...) youtube.com/watch?v=WNlC...
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins – journo travels with Afghan refugees, 2016 coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell: lesser-known Middle East religions (Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Copts ...) youtube.com/watch?v=WNlC...
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins – journo travels with Afghan refugees, 2016 coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...
Current reading:
António Lobo Antunes – The Inquisitors’ Manual, trans. Richard Zenith; Faulkneresque fantasia on last days of Portuguese Salazar regime
youtube.com/watch?v=KCjJ...
Philip Freeman – In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor, 2024
burningambulance.substack.com
António Lobo Antunes – The Inquisitors’ Manual, trans. Richard Zenith; Faulkneresque fantasia on last days of Portuguese Salazar regime
youtube.com/watch?v=KCjJ...
Philip Freeman – In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor, 2024
burningambulance.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Current reading:
António Lobo Antunes – The Inquisitors’ Manual, trans. Richard Zenith; Faulkneresque fantasia on last days of Portuguese Salazar regime
youtube.com/watch?v=KCjJ...
Philip Freeman – In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor, 2024
burningambulance.substack.com
António Lobo Antunes – The Inquisitors’ Manual, trans. Richard Zenith; Faulkneresque fantasia on last days of Portuguese Salazar regime
youtube.com/watch?v=KCjJ...
Philip Freeman – In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor, 2024
burningambulance.substack.com
From this morning's HN thread on JS weirdness, an excellent example I hadn't seen before:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358...
April 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
From this morning's HN thread on JS weirdness, an excellent example I hadn't seen before:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358...
I'm not an online games guy but this is right up my alley and I dig it. Well done
Time Portal guessing game (where and what year is this?): www.eggnog.ai/entertimepor...
HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4334...
Time Portal guessing game (where and what year is this?): www.eggnog.ai/entertimepor...
HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4334...
March 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm not an online games guy but this is right up my alley and I dig it. Well done
Time Portal guessing game (where and what year is this?): www.eggnog.ai/entertimepor...
HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4334...
Time Portal guessing game (where and what year is this?): www.eggnog.ai/entertimepor...
HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4334...
Stolen from @terriblemapshq.bsky.social’s tweet on the other site
March 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Stolen from @terriblemapshq.bsky.social’s tweet on the other site
Current reading:
Antonio Scurati’s M: Son of the Century (vol 1 of 4; only translated vol so far) – TV adaptation is very good
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
youtube.com/watch?v=8so3...
Antonio Scurati’s M: Son of the Century (vol 1 of 4; only translated vol so far) – TV adaptation is very good
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
youtube.com/watch?v=8so3...
March 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Current reading:
Antonio Scurati’s M: Son of the Century (vol 1 of 4; only translated vol so far) – TV adaptation is very good
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
youtube.com/watch?v=8so3...
Antonio Scurati’s M: Son of the Century (vol 1 of 4; only translated vol so far) – TV adaptation is very good
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
youtube.com/watch?v=8so3...
When the AI finally does become sentient, do you think it might hold a wee grudge
simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/...
February 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
When the AI finally does become sentient, do you think it might hold a wee grudge
simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/...
This is a very weird company
February 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is a very weird company
February 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM