Curent Project: Krzysztof Kieslowski

We’ve entered the final weekend of my Dekalog series. This will be a short essay because there’s very little story to tell in this segment, it just moves the plot The brothers meet with the stamp broker. He asks them if they’ve become aware of the Austrian

The brothers are outside sizing up the security issues of their father’s flat, conceiving of bizarre ways people could enter via the balcony and break into the premises. So they think of elaborate new security measure to keep them out. Then it occurs to Jerzy — he’s really enjoying

I don’t expect anyone to really understand this essay. Plenty of people have no interest in baseball. Most who love the game think of the New York Yankees as the game’s villains. But I grew up in New Jersey and have been a Yankee fan all my life.

Before I begin, I want to check back in on that foreign exchange rate that I mentioned in the last essay. The zloty of 1988 was extraordinarily weak — from my research today, I figure that 1000 zloty could buy you an ice cream. So if 1000 zloty is roughly $5,

So the brothers have some expenses — and there is clear interest in this stamp collection. But they aren’t sure exactly what they have their hands on. But they want to preserve at least part of the collection, so Artur suggests that Jerzy give his son a series of three

Earlier this year, I spent some time on a project I labeled The Drift — which is no longer online, it’s just sitting in my Ulysses writing software, gathering dust and looking for a purpose. I saw yesterday that Claude had just released a new model, Sonnet 4.5, so