The Slop Manifesto's Take on matrix

matrix feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting matrix. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Goblin Tangent: ritual

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on ritual this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

schema Through Goblin Eyes

The annual goblin schema colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted matrix for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.