October 2025 Brain Dump

Noting two major developments, before more life happens and washes me away.

Constellation of Complicity & Cold War History in Bangkok

Sketches from Phnom Penh

Submitting to unexpected hospitality and food on my first Cambodia trip.

A 14-Day Attempt to Walk Across Japan

Checking out the historic Nakasendo footpath linking Tokyo to Kyoto.

I Tried Housesitting in My Own Country

A 3-month side quest to figure out which areas are nice to live in

Longing for Belonging

How Manfred Max-Neef helped resolve my job and identity hangups

Weeks Where Decades Happen

Get ready to read about the pleasantest divorce ever

Being a Class Traitor Gives My Life Meaning

I’m in my Friedrich Engels era. Hit me up, radical Marxist sugar babies!

Compensatory Consumerism

Capital Vol. 1 - Rules for Radicals - Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

Baguio Was a Literal Shitshow

How traveller's diarrhea led to a long overdue relationship powwow.

What Is vs. What Could Be

Man's Search for Meaning - The Narrow Road to the Deep North - The Mayor of Casterbridge

Around the UK in 6 Housesits

We "lived" in London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Kent & Cumbria for 2 months

Processing Marriage, feat. Jude the Obscure

Sue Bridehead: "it is only a sordid contract, based on material convenience in householding, rating, and taxing"

Hello 2025! I Did a Year Compass

+ sexy Midori notebooks + how I spent the last week of 2024

The Travelogues of Robert Louis Stevenson

An Inland Voyage - Travels with a Donkey - The Amateur Emigrant - Across the Plains - The Silverado Squatters

The 12 Classic Books I Read in 2024

*throws War and Peace across the room* THUNK

Still Unemployed: 5 (More) Career Paths I Tried in 2024

Jobless but joyful