https://nathanshumate.com I make things, and I make things up. Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:56:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 21479399 https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-354/ https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-354/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:56:53 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=61362 I’ve caught up to my sketchbook, so it’ll be few weeks before I’ve got new sketches of the day.  I’ll be posting some random repeats on Instagram and X in the interim.]]> https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-354/feed/ 0 61362 https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-vii/ https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-vii/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:30:18 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=61132 1:14 For Evil’s Sake – And since we’re now shooting in Paris, we’re going to open this episode with the Frenchest thing we can think of: Mimes. No, really. Murderous mimes, even.  (Also baguettes.) There’s an Immortal assassin named Kuyler operating out of France who likes to use mime disguises, party magic, etc. to win...]]> https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-vii/feed/ 0 61132 https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-353/ https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-353/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:20:12 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=60820 ]]> https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-353/feed/ 0 60820 https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-vi/ https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-vi/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:06:02 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=60515 1:12 Eyewitness – Tessa sees what looks like a murder on a bridge visible from the window at a gallery, and tries to get the police to pay attention (hey look, it’s that same police detective EVERY TIME — the Seacouver PD must be really small). So naturally she takes it upon herself to be...]]> https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-vi/feed/ 1 60515 https://nathanshumate.com/the-axiomatic-morality-of-stephen-jay-gould/ https://nathanshumate.com/the-axiomatic-morality-of-stephen-jay-gould/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:03:13 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=59635 The late Stephen Gay Gould is one of my favorite essayists; he combines subject matter about the vagaries and intricacies of natural history with an engaging delivery that showed him to be a well-rounded, endlessly curious man. But of course he (a liberal atheist-leaning agnostic cultural Jew) and I (a believing Latter-day Saint and political...]]> https://nathanshumate.com/the-axiomatic-morality-of-stephen-jay-gould/feed/ 2 59635 https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-352/ https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-352/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:26:40 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=60204 ]]> https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-352/feed/ 0 60204 https://nathanshumate.com/the-bounceback-of-evil/ https://nathanshumate.com/the-bounceback-of-evil/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:13:02 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=59726 Two commemorations of note take place this week: The first anniversary of the public murder of Charlie Kirk. The 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I am not going to revisit the actual events themselves here; what I want to mull on is the aftermath. As the confirmation of Charlie’s death was reported on the...]]> https://nathanshumate.com/the-bounceback-of-evil/feed/ 0 59726 https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-v/ https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-v/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:58:41 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=59746 (I’ve decided to call this a “rewatch” rather than a “bingewatch” — it’s not really a binge when you’re only watching one or two episodes a week.) 1:10 Revenge is Sweet – Rebecca, a beautiful mortal woman (Vanity, Prince’s one-time squeeze — if we can’t cast rock stars, we’ll cast the rock-star-adjacent!), stalks Duncan with...]]> https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-rewatch-season-1-part-v/feed/ 0 59746 https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-351/ https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-351/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:08:09 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=59531 ]]> https://nathanshumate.com/sketch-of-the-day-omnibus-post-351/feed/ 0 59531 https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-bingewatch-season-1-part-iv/ https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-bingewatch-season-1-part-iv/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:53:46 +0000 https://nathanshumate.com/?p=59144 1:8 Deadly Medicine – Duncan JUST SO HAPPENS to be almost killed in a hit-and-run, and it takes him clear until the ambulance deposits him in the ER and the doctor (Joe Pantoliano!!!) has already taken X-rays before his Immortal healing catches up. Duncan stumbles out when no one is looking, but Dr. Wilder had...]]> https://nathanshumate.com/highlander-the-series-bingewatch-season-1-part-iv/feed/ 2 59144