Essay
In Defense of the Semicolon
An unhurried argument that the semicolon is neither a comma with ambitions nor a colon in decline, but a punctuation mark of settled and independent character.
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The Marginalia Review
A quarterly of essays on very little, published solely so that a tag manager has something to fire against. Every word below is invented.
Lecture
What the Cartographers Left Out
Delivered to an audience of eleven, this lecture considers the blank spaces on old maps and what a mapmaker chooses to admit ignorance about.
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Three Weeks Among the Beekeepers
Field notes from an apiary in a county that does not exist, recorded by a correspondent who admits to a mild allergy.
Read the excerpt →Why this site exists
Traffic on the real publication makes it hard to isolate a single hit in the GA4
DebugView. This site is quiet: whatever you see in the debugger is almost certainly
you. Click through the four pages in the navigation and each should register a
distinct page_view with its own page_location and
content_group.
- Four real URLs — full page loads, no SPA history shims.
- Consent Mode v2 defaults set to denied before
gtm.jsloads. - Page metadata pushed to
dataLayerahead of the container. - An on-page debugger (gear button, bottom right) showing live consent state.