The personal website and blog of Shawn Huelle. 2026-07-24T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/ Shawn Huelle 2026-07-24T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2026-07-24-helloAgaginAgain/ <h2 id="what-is-this">What is this?</h2> <h3 id="i-have-written-this-before-havent-i">I have written this before, <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2020-12-31-hello-again/">haven't I</a>?</h3> <p>In March of 2005 (more than 20 years ago), I started writing a blog. I wrote there sometimes regularly and sometimes only intermittently for a little over ten years. That blog was called <em>rocket to nowhere</em> and was hosted first at blogger and then at rocket2nowhere.com/blahg. Quite a lot happened there. The thing that eventually became my doctoral dissertation <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/tags/vs">started there</a>. I wrote about <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/tags/the-loop">books</a> and <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2014-02-19-a-miniature-film-festival/">film</a> there. I posted a whole bunch of <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/tags/photography">photos</a> as well as the occasional <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/tags/empeethree">mp3</a> there. I made and broke blogging rules for myself there. I published a lot of thoughts there.</p> <p>I eventually abandoned that blog. It had been infected by some kind of fake pharma hack/virus thing, I felt as though the intermittently was becoming ever more intermittent, and blogs were dead or dying. (If you subscribe to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory">Dead Internet Theory</a>, the whole internet was starting to die right around then.)</p> <p>Just about six years later, I missed it. I missed having a public place to put words and ideas and photographs online that wasn't &quot;social media&quot; or overrun with/by algorithms (see &quot;Dead Internet Theory&quot; above). So I started another blog.</p> <p>I called that one <em>Any Minor World That Breaks Apart Falls Together Again</em>. It still exists, but more on that in a moment. I wanted that blog to be a completely stripped down version of <em>rocket to nowhere</em>. There would be no &quot;blogroll.&quot; There would be little to no styling. There would be writing (usually short form), and there would be photographs (without context or explanation).</p> <p>That worked well for about two years, until I started a project that ended up taking the blog over. A description of that project (as well as the project itself which is slowly ongoing) can be found <a href="https://anyminorworldthatbreaksapartfallstogetheragain.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/1000p/">here</a>, but the gist of the project is this: I am reading <em>A Thousand Plateaus</em> by Deleuze &amp; Guattari one random page at a time and transcribing whatever I mark in the text.</p> <p>I have <em>not</em> decided to abandon that blog. Or rather, I have decided to abandon the &quot;blog&quot; part of that blog and let that space simply be the <em>Thousand Plateaus</em> project. The project turned the space into its title even more than it already was its title.</p> <p>To that end, I have removed all non-<em>Thousand Plateaus</em> posts from that space and put them here in this new blog. They are all collected under the tag &quot;<a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/tags/any-minor-world">Any Minor World</a>.&quot;</p> <p>I also dug up the <em>rocket to nowhere</em> archives, converted them into ~650 markdown files, and then put them here in this new blog, too. They are (almost) all collected under the tag <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/tags/blahg">blahg</a>.</p> <h2 id="so-what-is-this-going-to-be">So what is this going to be?</h2> <p>In the <a href="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2020-12-31-hello-again/">previous version of this post</a>, I stated clearly (?) what I thought the blog was <em>not</em> going to be:</p> <blockquote> <p>It will not have a theme [in that it will not be single-theme]. It will not attempt to monetize itself or anything else. It will not be concerned with SEO or number of visitors.</p> </blockquote> <p>I would like to add two things: It will not be coherent, and it will not be consistent.</p> <p>And while all of those things are and will hopefully remain true, they still don't really answer the question <em>What is</em> this blog <em>going to be?</em></p> <p>In terms of how it looks, this blog is already somewhere between <em>rocket to nowhere</em>'s aughty aesthetic and <em>Any Minor World</em>'s forced minimalism. In terms of content, this will hopefully be a continuation of what my blog has always been. Or, to make a gesture toward my personal (blogging) philosophy/aesthetic: This is going to be random. It's going to be stupid. It's going to be cheap. It's going to be shitty.</p> <p>Stick around anyway.</p> 2025-01-08T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2025-01-08-books-read-in-2024/ <ol> <li><em>The Stone Sky</em> by N.K. Jemisin</li> <li><em>Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale</em> by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon and Chris Samnee</li> <li><em>Demon Slave: Band 1</em> von Takahiro und illustriert von Yohei Takemura</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 1</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>Demon Slave: Band 2</em> von Takahiro und illustriert von Yohei Takemura</li> <li><em>Dick Fight Island: Band 1</em> von Reibun Ike</li> <li><em>All You Want, Whenever You Want</em> von Omayu</li> <li><em>Neon Genesis Evangelion (Perfect Edition): Band 1</em> von Yoshiyuki Sadamoto</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 2</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>MADK: Band 1</em> von Ryo Suzuri</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 3</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>MADK: Band 2</em> von Ryo Suzuri</li> <li><em>Demon Slave: Band 3</em> von Takahiro und illustriert von Yohei Takemura</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 4</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>Demon Slave: Band 4</em> von Takahiro und illustriert von Yohei Takemura</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 5</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>MADK: Band 3</em> von Ryo Suzuri</li> <li><em>Demon Slave: Band 5</em> von Takahiro und illustriert von Yohei Takemura</li> <li><em>Demon Slave: Band 6</em> von Takahiro und illustriert von Yohei Takemura</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 6</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 7</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 8</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>Carnival of the Animals</em>: The Fossil Record Lecture: 39 minutes: Links Hall, Chicago: Friday, October 27, 2023 by Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson &amp; Essi Kaussalainen</li> <li><em>Uzumaki</em> von Junji Ito</li> <li><em>Roland Barthes</em> by Roland Barthes</li> <li><em>Small Things Like These</em> by Claire Keegan</li> <li><em>Into the Desert, Across the Ice</em> by Ursula K. Le Guin</li> <li><em>Running Naked: Surviving the Legacy of Family in Rural Nebraska: A Coming of Age Memoir</em> by Colby Coash</li> <li><em>Fight Night</em> by Miriam Toews</li> <li><em>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</em> by Shirley Jackson</li> <li><em>Refuse to be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts</em> by Matt Bell</li> <li><em>Chainsaw Man: Band 9</em> von Tatsuki Fujimoto</li> <li><em>His Cold Hands</em> by J.L. Keyser (former student)</li> <li><em>Prophet Song</em> by Paul Lynch</li> <li><em>Die Kriegerin</em> von Helene Bukowski</li> <li><em>Neon Genesis Evangelion (Perfect Edition): Band 1</em> von Yoshiyuki Sadamoto</li> <li><em>Neon Genesis Evangelion (Perfect Edition): Band 2</em> von Yoshiyuki Sadamoto</li> <li><em>Neon Genesis Evangelion (Perfect Edition): Band 3</em> von Yoshiyuki Sadamoto</li> <li><em>Neon Genesis Evangelion (Perfect Edition): Band 4</em> von Yoshiyuki Sadamoto</li> </ol> 2024-01-04T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2024-01-04-books-read-in-2023/ <p>I am pretending that this list got published in the previous blog. I have backdated it.</p> <ol> <li><em>The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether</em> by Jack Spicer</li> <li><em>MONARCH</em> by Candice Wuehle</li> <li><em>Kinderland</em> von Mawil</li> <li><em>Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?</em> by Harold Schechter &amp; Eric Powell</li> <li><em>A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary</em> by Brian Eno</li> <li><em>Death Industrial Complex</em> by Candice Wuehle</li> <li><em>Behind the Wire</em> by Andrea Myers</li> <li><em>Atemwende/Breathturn</em> von Paul Celan/Pierre Joris</li> <li><em>Man wird doch wohl mal wütend werden dürfen</em> von Toon Tellegen und Marc Boutavant (trans. Mirjam Pressler)</li> <li><em>Letterlocking</em> by Stephanie Staab</li> <li><em>The Priory of the Orange Tree</em> by Samantha Shannon</li> <li><em>Their Four Hearts</em> by Vladimir Sorokin</li> <li><em>Madame X</em> by Darcie Dennigan</li> <li><em>Zorrie</em> by Laird Hunt</li> <li><em>The Fifth Season</em> by N.K. Jemisin</li> <li><em>The Obelisk Gate</em> by N.K. Jemisin</li> </ol> 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-27-649/ <p><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-27-649/1X2jfjpcQ3-768.avif 768w"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-27-649/1X2jfjpcQ3-768.webp 768w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-27-649/1X2jfjpcQ3-768.jpeg" alt="an image of a white wall or ceiling with rhombus-shaped splash of light and the shadow of an elephant within" width="768" height="1024"></picture></p> 2023-03-09T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-09-637/ <p><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-09-637/xdiIHx6utn-1024.avif 1024w"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-09-637/xdiIHx6utn-1024.webp 1024w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-09-637/xdiIHx6utn-1024.jpeg" alt="an image of a Playmobil streets and sanitation worker sitting on a mustard yellow child's chair next to an open front-loading washing machine in front of a heating register" width="1024" height="768"></picture></p> 2023-03-03T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-03-413/ <p><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-03-413/CSTtrFzULS-768.avif 768w"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-03-413/CSTtrFzULS-768.webp 768w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-03-03-413/CSTtrFzULS-768.jpeg" alt="a black pigeon sitting on a stone plinth upon which one can see the back of a statue against a blue and white sky" width="768" height="1024"></picture></p> 2023-02-11T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-02-11-658/ <p><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-02-11-658/bVR8Ll4e74-1024.avif 1024w"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-02-11-658/bVR8Ll4e74-1024.webp 1024w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-02-11-658/bVR8Ll4e74-1024.jpeg" alt="a particle board floor with three black cables criss-crossing across it and, in the lower-right curve of one of the cables, a tiny, ball-point-pen drawing of a horse and rider heading west" width="1024" height="768"></picture></p> 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-01-31-503/ <p><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-01-31-503/ECOq6amLTz-768.avif 768w"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-01-31-503/ECOq6amLTz-768.webp 768w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-01-31-503/ECOq6amLTz-768.jpeg" alt="a wooden door sporting a metal knocker shaped like a lion holding a heavy ring; the lion's eyes have been replaced by plastic googly eyes" width="768" height="1024"></picture></p> 2023-01-09T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-01-09-a-playlist-for-2022/ <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZJDrzBtCxqkSEQ4jJaKuU?si=dda52d9358ba4ded">a playlist for 2022</a></p> 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z https://shawnhuelle.com/blog/2023-01-06-books-read-in-2022/ <ol> <li><em>fumbling with matches / Herumfingern an Gleichgesinnten</em> von Monika Rinck</li> <li><em>Anatomie Narrative</em> by Samplerman</li> <li><em>Card/Clip</em> by Kirk Keen</li> <li><em>Anne of Green Gables</em> by L.M. Montgomery</li> <li><em>Silence: Lectures and Writings</em> by John Cage</li> <li><em>The Book of Form and Emptiness</em> by Ruth Ozeki</li> <li>A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin</li> <li><em>One Ingredient Recipes</em> by Martijn in ’t Veld</li> <li><em>Just Us</em> by Claudia Rankine</li> <li><em>The Tombs of Atuan</em> by Ursula K. Le Guin</li> <li><em>33 1/3: Trout Mask Replica</em> by Kevin Courrier</li> <li><em>Between the Lines: Jiangsu to Xinjiang 1980-81</em> by Adèle Ogiér Jones</li> <li><em>Mason &amp; Dixon</em> by Thomas Pynchon</li> <li><em>Telluria</em> by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton</li> <li><em>Acting Class</em> by Nick Drnaso</li> <li><em>A Shock</em> by Keith Ridgway</li> <li><em>White Noise</em> by Don Delillo</li> <li><em>The Return of the King</em> by JRR Tolkien</li> </ol>