The New Leaf Journal

Crescent shadows, beams of light, and the Sun seen over my shoulder: A collection of solar eclipse photos from a sidewalk in Brooklyn Heights.

La, the 17-year old co-protagonist of the excellent visual novel True Remembrance, has silver hair. The rest of the cast have seemingly natural and expected hair colors. I study La’s unexpected silver mane.

I use the case of an unnaturally intelligent 6-year old visual novel character to describe a specific character-writing flaw in fiction.

I use Retro Dodo’s complaints about a dramatic and unexplained decrease in its Google traffic to caution webmasters against relying solely on Google Search to deliver visitors.

A comprehenshive spoiler-lite review of the second season of the Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki anime.

I filtered all headlines and descriptions containing the word “Palworld” from appearing in my RSS and ATOM feed items. I did not know until April 1, 2024, that I also needed to filter “Pal World.”

Reviewing the month that was at The New Leaf Journal in March 2024 as we bring the first quarter of the year to a close.

I received a mailing from the NYC Board of Elections about the April 2, 2024 Presidential Primary. I already knew when the primary was but I came away impressed with a pigeon on the mailer.

I tried Carr’s Whole Wheat Crackers after purchasing a box when they were on sale. I enjoyed the crackers enough to recommend them with my own serving suggestion.

The winter 2024 adaptation of A Sign of Affection gave me five articles about anime hair color. Having written so much about it already, I decided to write a full review of the eseason itself, separate from its great hair color topics.

Although I do not use my “smart” TV’s operating system and thus cannot buy things from its store, I confidently recommend against buying smart TV games from a smart TV store.

I respond to an article about organizing feed collections that was written as a response to my first article on organizing feeds. Our purpose here is to evaluate the purpose of feed organizing.