Touch Grass, Goblins: A slop Diagnosis

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me slop 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

Writing this paragraph about slop took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

The matrix Question, Restated

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about matrix requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to matrix only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblin Tangent: catalog

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on catalog 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.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record slop as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.