I was reminded of a 2007 anime called Myself; Yourself. While I did not care for it, I remembered the when and why I watched it and then discussed how it is a great example of a watchable bad anime.
On first reviewing the show you’re watching (or book you’re reading, game you’re playing, etc.) before thinking about what it should have been.
I remembered Charles Barkley having a humorous reaction on a 2007 episode of Inside the NBA when confronted with news that Scottie Pippen was planning a comeback. I decided to find more information about it.
A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 New Leaf Journal articles without permission, before I identified the issue.
A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 296.
An RSS feed subscription about visual novels pointed me to the real-world Japanese criminal matter of “Sugar Baby Riri.”
I question a claim about the state of Union Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, based on my long history of having walked there going back to the 2000s.
I celebrate the Nintendo 64’s 30th anniversary with a selection of my own late-90s N64 memories.
Recapping my 2026 Junited and JulyReply posts from Emu Cafe Social, all in one post on The New Leaf Journal.
A free white printer with a note left out for the taking in Brooklyn Heights reminded me of a Japanese horror visual novel I played and reviewed earlier this year.
A 2026 story of a snake in a football helment in Arkansas reminded me of that time in 1995 when an earthworm found its way into my shoe.
Back in 2009, a speculative fiction author named Fred Warren adapted his own 2008 short story into a visual novel after learning about the medium. Here, I review A Taste of Honey, which remains free to read and play.
