Hang a tiny bell
from a hungry, agile cat,
and alter all things.
— Jean-Pierre Melville
What Is This Place?
It's not a bar without a television in a city without cars, but I think of it that way. I'll try to add new content a few times a week.
Site Legend
HERE posts focus on me and my own doings. These are the things in my personal life that I think others will find interesting. They may contain links to other sites.
THERE posts focus on and link to the doings of others. These are the things online that I find interesting. Obviously, I hope you do, too. These posts may also contain digressions and personal anecdotes.
EVERYWHERE combines the above two categories into one feed. This is the default setting of the front page. Using the drop down, you can choose to only view posts from the Here or There feeds.
NOTE: regardless of where a link appears on A Tiny Bell, it will never lead to a social media site. No Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Twitter, Reddit, Substack, etc. I make exceptions for MetaFilter, YouTube, and Vimeo, though I usually embed the videos.
NOW posts are ongoing personal projects, regardless of when they were initiated. These individual projects will change and new projects will be added to the Now section. Once a Now project is absolutely complete, I will move it to the Then section.
THEN posts are archived personal projects. These individual project postings won't change.
Who am I?
My name is Lincoln Stewart. I've had numerous blogs and mailing lists between 1994 and 2018, mostly under the heteronyms VS. Dobbs, HL Manhasset, and h bahar, among others.
The most popular of my projects were Victory Shag, and Wrestle the Future to the Fucking Ground (aka WTFTTFG), which were both Dobbsian.
At present, I live in Toronto, Canada, with a dog named Shakedown.
The Sausage
A Tiny Bell was as an invite-only site until August, 2024, when I dropped the password requirement. It is run on Ghost with a modified Curie theme. Posts marinate in Drafts and Voicenotes and are completed in Butterdocs.
Contact
Want to share something that interests you? You can get in touch with me at lincoln@atinybell.com or atinybe.11 on Signal. If reaching out on Signal, your first message should mention A Tiny Bell so as not to be considered spam.
If there's an image on this site that you own the copyright to and you'd prefer it not be used, simply ask for it's removal and it will be gone within a few hours. Thanks.
