An extended sample from my first book of fiction, At Dawn: Early Short Stories, has been added to my site and can be downloaded or flipped through in the embedded viewer.
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One of the 124 chapters from Art & Love, Vol. 2, which will be published worldwide next week. Supporters of my Patreon have already received their Early Access copies, as with all my new works.
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I’m glad Instagram has kept this screencap alive. I still occasionally get notified of new reactions for it, like yesterday.
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After today’s 26th post, one more month of weekly 3-chapter entries to go until the publication of my kaleidoscopic David Lynch book of 90 concise chapters on the first of May.
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Two interesting quotes from a source mentioned after:
Pierre Boulez: “If you kill imagination, that is a kind of long-term suicide.”
Max Beerbohm: “Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.”
From Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, February 1987.
Today’s Patreon posts (23 March 2026):
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The first Better Patreon book is now available worldwide!
$3 from my Patreon Shop (complete with the File Vault of the month’s attachments) or in the Kindle format from Amazon (no File Vault, as that’s a Patreon exclusive). 404 pages of creativity:
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After my recent move to a fresh start and new day, my Patreon is again picking up steam for ever renewing directions. For anyone interested in creativity, David Lynch, Northern Exposure, health, and more, The Better Patreon has your back.
Finally so much light in my new place and an end to dark, murky, depressing apartments. Through some amazing providence and an unlikely series of events, I ended up finding my ideally bright, spacious, yet also minimalist apartment at last.
Second-to-last feature in the series Monday Midnight Movies at my Patreon until I finish further works in this medium. An ancient cave painting on her way from Lascaux to Iceland and a luminous butterfly in London.
“Unstable governments, like unstable works of art, are such as they are because values have not been appreciated.”
—Robert Henri, The Art Spirit (from tomorrow’s entry for the full serialisation with commentaries at my Patreon)
⭐️ 2026: a new era for The Better Patreon ⭐️
Today my Patreon expanded into a book series as well as the online site. That’s right: The Better Patreon can now be followed in either book or online form. More in this Instagram post:
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Welcome aboard!
The Better Patreon also has its own unlisted, exclusive YouTube playlist for various videos. In 2026, it will receive many new entries.
The first of my Northern Exposure appreciation posts for 2026: 3.17 “Lost and Found”:
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2/2 All members at the time of publication will receive the first volume for free (and the same with all subsequent volumes).
Also coming in January, likewise free for members and before general publication: Art & Love, Vol. 2.
1/2 The final post and newsletter issue for the year 2025.
Starting in January, The Better Patreon will receive a whole new dimension and way of enjoying it by also becoming a book series.
Second-to-last issue of the newsletter this year. This continuing illustrated chronicle has been published every Monday since I started my Patreon in April 2025.
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One of my greatest achievements in life.
Try, Colonel. Just try. Watch that episode without all your defenses crumbling. Keep in mind on the other side is the voice of Orson Welles. Just try.
My tribute to Rob Reiner’s film Stand by Me (1986), from my book Art & Love, Vol. 1 (2020).
My very first film work, 2015, remastered in 2024. One of the tasks I’m near to completing, thanks to the lift my Patreon supporters give me every day and night, is adding to IMDb a selection of still frames from all my filmed or film-type works so far.
Here’s one of the most important things I’ll ever write: my loving appreciation of this episode of Northern Exposure, more timely now than at any point before within my lifetime.
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Photos of the hardcover of What Now with Simo, Season 4, both by itself and with the Season 3 volume.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
“Bring me my bow of burning gold. Bring me my arrows of desire. Bring me my spear. Oh clouds, unfold. Bring me my chariot of fire. I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”
Introducing a bit more widely some of the banner variants I’ve come up with, originally for specific contexts.