Dept. of Enthusiasm is a charmingly sporadic email from me, Jez Burrows, a British designer, illustrator, and writer living in Seattle, WA.

Once a month (ish) I'll tell you about one thing I love, in no more than a few enthusiastic paragraphs. Maybe a song, maybe a city, maybe a single sentence.

Occasionally I'll tell you about something I'm working on. Maybe a book, maybe a print, maybe a playlist of songs whose titles would score highly on a Scrabble board ('Jezebel' by Iron & Wine? That's a 125-point Bingo with a Triple Word Score).

Past issues:
57. A year of enthusiasms (01.13.2024)
56. A matador giving up on murder (06.10.2023)
55. And why not sing? (05.16.2023)
54. This hill, my hill (11.05.2022)
53. Radio silence (06.04.2022)
52. Darksynth, Filthstep, Italogaze (08.17.2021)
51. Desert Island Version (07.02.2021)
50. The luminous waffle (06.05.2021)
49. Literary criticism for gymnasts (04.30.2021)
48. Consolation games (03.29.2021)
47. Vanilla song (03.14.2021)
46. In the field of the Forest Queen (03.07.2021)
45. Song for stamina (02.21.2021)
44. "Ethiopians!" (02.07.2021)
43. Consensual nonsense (01.31.2021)
42. A brick, an elephant, a letter from a friend (01.24.2021)
41. Listening party (01.17.2021)
40. Painting of a painter (01.10.2021)
39. Twenty songs from 2020 (12.31.2020)
38. No pipers piping (12.21.2020)
37. Crackling, crooning (12.14.2020)
36. So long (12.06.2020)
35. Dewey, decimated (11.29.2020)
34. A noble species of sadness (11.23.2020)
33. Hope on an artificial hill (11.15.2020)
32. Voicemail Theatre (11.1.2020)
31. Scoville Disco (10.25.2020)
30. An antidote to Zoom (10.18.2020)
29. "And of course, puff-knuckle" (10.11.2020)
28. Forty voices in an eight-sided room (10.4.2020)
27. Theme for a greenhouse (9.27.2020)
26. A paradise simulator (9.20.2020)
25. Loony tunes (9.14.2020)
24. Songs for the high road (9.6.2020)
23. Hallelujah (8.30.2020)
22. Dance Dance Retribution (8.23.2020)
21. Shaggiest dog, longest story (8.16.2020)
20. Trickster's wedding (8.9.2020)
19. Worn-out joy (8.2.2020)
18. Scattered showers (7.26.2020)
17. Luxuriant incedentalism (7.19.2020)
16. A 30-minute idyll (7.12.2020)
15. Window music (7.5.2020)
14. Non finito (6.28.2020)
13. Contains moderate peril, sea breeze (6.21.2020)
12. Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying (6.14.2020)
11. What to do with enthusiasm, pt. 2 (6.7.2020)
10. What to do with enthusiasm (5.31.2020)
9. Snow Canons (5.24.2020)
8. Road movie (5.17.2020)
7. Every conceivable trumpet (5.10.2020)
6. A 45-minute joke (5.3.2020)
5. Prosperity pop (4.26.2020)
4. A soup called Roberto (4.19.2020)
3. Five key changes in three minutes (4.12.2020)
2. Television for insomnia (4.5.2020)
1. Concerto for piano, bird, and car horn (3.29.2020)