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Continue reading →: Two Books: Vacationland and Inferno
I’ve read my first two books of the new year, both very different. John Hodgman’s (@hodgman) “Vacationland” is a funny, smart and melancholy rumination on adulthood, childhood and special places that define our lives. I envy him deeply as a writer. Second book, which I just finished a few minutes…
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Continue reading →: Kneel Before Zod archived podcasts
The Kneel Before Zod podcast (which I have a goal to resume in some form in 2018) ran for a few months in late 2016 into early 2017. My co-conspirator, Adam, and I had fun but lost the thread. I have archived the old episodes below since SoundCloud deactivates your…
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Continue reading →: Comprehensive Goals List
I’ve broken my 2018 goals into six areas — running, writing, working, personal, development and extracurricular — where I believe that I can make focused, tactical improvements over the coming months. My focus, as much as possible, is on specific areas where I find myself wanting to grow and modify…
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Continue reading →: Setting Goals for 2018
I’ve had this blog in various permutations now for the past 20 years. I started clontzville.com back when I was in graduate school as an early experiment in personal Web publishing and have come in and out of it ever since. As for the name, an email broker had, unbelievably,…





