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Mar 22, 2025: Had a nice Americano from Cosmonauts in the park. Met a new person on their very first trip out into the world. Their parents were a delight. There’s …
Mar 19, 2025: My favorite space wizard surprised me with my second favorite space wizard. Green Mind was a seminal album in my life, right up there with Sonic …
Mar 16, 2025: Because we need wholesome distracting things, along with the commitment to evolution, even if through revolution. Original here -> …
Mar 15, 2025: In a crazy time this makes so much sense Kasso Ep. 3
Mar 13, 2025: Perfect for a day that felt like it was gonna get me. Posi vibes out to all those out there struggling. Take a listen Concierto de Aranjuez …
Mar 11, 2025: in progress the living room wall the backyard fence on the south side simple attempts at attention this report relayed via residue letter and note wars large …
Mar 11, 2025: comment, like, prescribe the mundanity of modernity has misled us into a metric uneven and deceiving catching the comments hoping to hold a connection looking for symbols …
Mar 11, 2025: Another successful trip to grit city to find good music to play of an evening. This time we made our way to Drastic Plastic and it did not disappoint …
Feb 23, 2025: Record store haul. Chet Baker Quintet - Blues for a Reason, Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love, Bud Shank - Brazil! Brazil! Brazil! #vinyl #lp …
Feb 23, 2025: Foggy afternoon record shopping in Tacoma
Feb 2, 2025: Sunday morning drive in the snow with some tunes from #Pumpernickel #classiccarsofmastodon #type3 #vw
Jan 31, 2025: 20+ years of music - a reckonmembering Today I am revisiting a play list I made some time ago. It is populated by music that i have been listening to for at least 20 years. This, is itself …
Jan 31, 2025: I posted this a few years ago and not sure where it comes from But the sentiment stands!
Jan 29, 2025: Just another example of corporations ruining things. We need to wake up to the fact not everything has to make more money, more money, more money. …
Jan 28, 2025: Fairy houses in a local park
Jan 28, 2025: The delightful PETER BJORN AND JOHN are touring in May of 2025 San Francisco, CA Pasadena, CA Salt Lake City, UT Denver, CO Minneapolis, MN Chicago, …
Jan 28, 2025: That time when the wife and I delivered our son in a VW Beetle next to a bridge on the south side of Chicago at 1:00am. Paramedics were helping clean …
Jan 28, 2025: My wife continues to find ways to inspire me every day.
Jan 27, 2025: Something very comforting and satisfying using my 1972 type 3 as a staging area for cleaning up my 1980’s era Shopsmith Mark V 500 headstock.
Jan 27, 2025: Nothing like a slice and a pretty car.
Jan 27, 2025: Reading Fedi.Tips for RSS feeds and this is such a banger! How to follow RSS feeds from Mastodon Create a new post but don’t publish it yet Mention …
Jan 27, 2025: americans sure love giving their data away to the CCP in exchange for free stuff, -Steven Heidel via weapon X Well, American tech companies surely …
Jan 26, 2025: Walks with Finn
Jan 26, 2025: Sometimes your mental health feels like the towel bar which you can see is about to come off the wall. You could just fix the bar, but instead you are …
Jan 24, 2025: The perfect way to end the week. A new version of “Never Arriving” from the upcoming live album So36. streaming links youtu.be/OAHoTyMFR…
Jan 24, 2025: Many moons ago I too worked in an office. I once had a disagreement with the person who sat on my right. Perhaps I’m better off WFH?
Jan 24, 2025: True story: My second car was a Chevy Citation I called the “pinto” due to the amount of rust it had. One night coming home I turned into the street, …
Jan 24, 2025: Many years ago I helped with the promotion, filming, and editing, of a nice poetry event called Rainy Day in Seattle. Here are a couple of the ideas …
Jan 24, 2025: Sit back smooth out and let the week end the way it is gonna end.
Jan 24, 2025: sorry to have missed you… #dalek, #dr.who
Jan 23, 2025: I wonder and so I ask: I don’t use pronouns in my bio or in reference to myself in general. Mainly because I don’t care, and hope my posts and comments show that. But, am I …
Jan 22, 2025: Aquatic Panda Distro is looking for new consigners! If you make comic/art zines and identify as bipoc, hit us up! We’d love to help bring your zines …
Jan 21, 2025: My wife loves sleeping so I made her a little Christmas gift and hung it at the end of the hall. Gotta remind the kids to be quiet!
Jan 20, 2025: But, BlueSky....wait...What?!?! I have been skirting around the edges of BlueSky trying to crystallize my thoughts and why I won’t be signing up. Along comes Christine Lemmer-Webber …
Jan 20, 2025: Broadway Joe is still delivering Well, that’s interesting… Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents
Jan 20, 2025: Today is an odd one. I have hope we will continue to be kind to one another and the larger currents of power will not sweep us into something we …
Jan 19, 2025: RSS for the win! Nice overview of using RSS as your social media. I especially like the inclusion of RSS Lookup And PolitePol Platforms may change hands, changing the …
Jan 19, 2025: Couple of nice Mastodon guides for those new to the thing. axbom.com/mastodon-… www.spongefile.com/mastodon-… indubitablyodin.medium.com/a-respect… …
Jan 19, 2025: Following on from talk about Michele’s book cover I wanted to share an alternate cover for my own book. I went searching old copyright free pulp mags …
Jan 19, 2025: Making a book Cover - Michele McDannold Lovely little post about creating the book cover for her collection of poems Stealing the Midnight from a …
Jan 19, 2025: i hope this email never finds you i hope you are outside its grasp i hope you are outside walking in the woods away from this toward something else breaking the chain missing the …
Jan 19, 2025: Saw a post featuring Lydia Lunch which naturally made me think of Richard Kern, which made me think of Sonic Youth. I first became aware of him via …
Jan 19, 2025: Some sundays you just need a little 90’s pep #nowplaying #nowlistening
Jan 19, 2025: If you are interested in physical page turn buttons on an B&W e-reader one of the best has some refurbs on sale (U.S. White only). Not an ad just like …
Jan 19, 2025: The better half and I sat down to enjoy the always enjoyable. This has got to be a record of wholesomeness and quality that will be remembered. Nick …
Jan 19, 2025: Nona Limmen Web Shop Nona Limmen Instagram seen via the incomparable purveyor of taste WIL WHEATON
Jan 17, 2025: New Ella, color me excited! “Verve Records has announced a new, never-before-released live album from legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. Titled …
Jan 17, 2025: The greatest creators are accident prone. The intention lies in their willingness to embrace their mistakes and elevate happenstance.
Jan 16, 2025: I can hear hit me with your best shot so loud right now.
Jan 8, 2025: I enjoy the whirlwind that is CES. It reminds me of a more hopeful time, when technology was poised to be our savior. Admittedly, it has become a spew …
Jan 7, 2025: It’s been almost 20 years since I saw Samiam with AFI at Brownie’s in NYC. I have since fallen in love with Iron Chic as well. Very tempted to figure …
Jan 7, 2025: Just learning about this band and enjoying what I hear. Think 80’s darkwave darlings daring you to dance. #nowlistening #nowplaying
Jan 7, 2025: unsolicited fun fact: i eat cottage cheese and call it ice cream …drives the missus insane
Jan 4, 2025: Starting off the new annual running playlist. First addition is Forever Endeavor - Short Fictions Listen on any of these fine services. Spotify Apple …
Jan 2, 2025: Some feel good positivity for the new year Keyon Harrold - Beautiful Day This entire album is well worth the time. His tone is smooth as butter. …
Jan 2, 2025: Joplin Template I use Joplin a lot for my day gig and for creative stuff. For the day gig I created a template and a shortcut to run every day when I log on to …
Dec 31, 2024: Ending the year on a bright bummer. Classic sugar helps your medicine go down. Iyah May - Karmageddon #nowplaying #nowlistening
Dec 21, 2024: Happy Solstice! Enjoy an old favorite. The Good Clean Fun crew is a crew I always want to be part of. #Nowplaying open.spotify.com/track/2x0…
Dec 20, 2024: For god’s sake I don’t know who needs to hear this but turn off the F’n judder reduction on your TV!!! Mine makes me disable independently for each …
Dec 20, 2024: EM DR. Can you hear me? Speaking to some friends about creativity, mental well being, therapy and how they overlap. It has occurred to me that I have been writing poetry for …
Dec 16, 2024: Never gets old. Merry Everything you may celebrate. #NowPlaying #NowListening Plus obligatory link on top of embed because masto won’t do it. …
Dec 15, 2024: I never tire of the wonderful oddities dug up by Andy Cirzan! overcast.fm/+AA_xcByD…
Dec 15, 2024: Still Hope people are amazing and endlessly creative and inventive… Wielding fire and razorblades as my tools of revelation, I sculpt emotions, experiences born …
Dec 7, 2024: Conservatism seems to be wholly consumed with exerting control over others due to a lack of control over yourself…..and boredom….a lot of boredom….
Dec 6, 2024: I love that we will never stop discoving more about our amazingng shared history. Never stops being fascinating Scientists find 50,000 year-old lost …
Dec 6, 2024: Of all the times we could have been born I am incredibly thankful to be here when I can sit and listen to Coleman Hawkins on a Friday evening. …
Dec 5, 2024: My wife and I worked really hard to rehab this fun old console stereo into a new home for a record player gifted by my buddy. First up some great …
Dec 5, 2024: #NowListening Caught me from the off…. “America is a pyramid scheme and you ain’t at the top!”
Dec 5, 2024: Good to remember…. 404 Podcast Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of Datasets Now … sigh
Dec 5, 2024: I was driving in my early 70’s VW last night thinking about this….and guess what some of you are too! Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness …
Nov 29, 2024: Dirty Day of Commerce Happy dirty day of commerce after Thanksgiving. If you are in the spending mood please support some lovely people at Magical Jeep Distributing and …
Nov 14, 2024: feels like we need to hear it again and again…
Nov 11, 2024: I’ve got a cold and spent most of the afternoon sleeping. But, this has given me a boost. First shipment of books has arrived. To read some and for …
Nov 7, 2024: when trying times occur i always reach for music, and invariably i reach for this fine band first
Nov 6, 2024: my hot take: a very large non 0 number of people voted not for Trump or his policies, but to say FU to people telling them what to do…feels like a …
Nov 5, 2024: Speaking of Dune and music. In the Venn diagram of Dune fans and Industrial/acid house fans i feel like this has to be a sweet spot….
Nov 5, 2024: This young man has a lovely gravelly voice which reminds me of John Fogerty circa early CCR. Here he tackles the old axiom best known and loved by …
Nov 5, 2024: Love some Chastity Belt any day but feels especially refreshing on this particular day.
Nov 5, 2024: Times like this i take comfort in the sage words of @historysmilo. With all the political goings on today, it’s easy to forget that there’s ancient …
Nov 4, 2024: Nice drive and walk over the weekend. The little VW keeps proving itself.
Nov 4, 2024: Pure Gold www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/…
Oct 12, 2024: forgetting to update the proprietary graphics driver you installed 2 years ago before a distro upgrade….I deserve this pain….
Oct 8, 2024: nothing as simple or as sweet as Finn needing a bit of attention when 5 rolls around…“time to stop teching dad”
Sep 28, 2024: Are we stilll taking pictures of food? (Chorizo con pappas y huevos y frijoles)
Sep 28, 2024: If you dig poetry and flowery flow take a look at a gem of a new book out on Roadside Press. Heck, it even has its own website Failing to Fall
Sep 4, 2024: This is a fascinating article. www.404media.co/right-to-…
Sep 2, 2024: Some nice times out with the best best good boy.
Sep 2, 2024: In honor of Labour Day. This feels about right.
Aug 31, 2024: My water sensor finally arriveded and quickly switcheded out with only 8 screws and a bit of cursing. Fix your stuff! (Also machines are always …
Aug 28, 2024: Criminally underappreciated… “i’ve got mine is so affecting….i’ve got mine is so infecting”
Aug 28, 2024: Achingly beautiful tale of what far too many humans have to endure.
Aug 28, 2024: 8 years gone and still amazed by how good this album is. There is no other band that runs as meaningfully and strong throughout my life.
Aug 28, 2024: The thing about science is….it’s freaking cool as hell!! BBC wildlife These dinosaur footprints disappear on one side of the Atlantic Ocean and …
Aug 28, 2024: My daughter caught this fabulous beast in his natural habitat and immediately thought of me. How nice. I once rocked a not colored version of this …
Aug 27, 2024: oneminutepark.tv (found via kottke.org and tinyawards.net) is the breath of fresh air i didn’t know i needed for micro breaks during my day.
Aug 26, 2024: Trackballs are the best. Not sure why these never caught on everywhere. I roll the Elecom HUGE and it is just that. (pic for reference) RSI gremlins …
Aug 24, 2024: 25 years ago….still grim and beautiful all at once Don't Wake Me Up by the Microphones
Aug 24, 2024: The coffee shop I was at earlier had some stuff going on and I’m here for it.
Aug 24, 2024: August in the PNW means dirty boots, coffee, and a warm fire.
Aug 22, 2024: Colossal has an great write up on the amazing Beth Cavener. Just sublime work.
Aug 21, 2024: This is one of those things that is so simple and obvious that the revelation of its coined term is almost painful in its beauty. …
Aug 20, 2024: Like so many times, he gets it just right. Freedom For All - L.E. Modesitt, jr The guiding principle of the Founding Fathers was to maximize freedom …
Aug 19, 2024: romantic proclamations of affirmation these are things i say to you or try to on a regular basis i hear they are important and i was raised to pay attention to everything as if it were …
Aug 19, 2024: Like an animal: My trusty Gaggia Brera has decided to be temperamental. This involved a lot of me trying to be patient as I took it apart and diagnosed a faulty water …
Aug 16, 2024: Ten years ago I made a thing…it still amuses me. What a way to make a living.
Aug 16, 2024: Today’s tune is helping me focus and groove all at once. You Got me - A Place to Bury Strangers #nowplaying #music
Aug 15, 2024: Out of My Head - Skeggs Another ace tune from the dreamy southern continent, home to the future of breakdancing.
Aug 13, 2024: HeyNote or how i learned to love Joplin too Listening to the wonderful Linux Matters I found out about a fun little app HeyNote which is a crazy useful scratchpad for writing script snippets or …
Aug 13, 2024: This is way more enjoyable than it has a right to be. The amount of work is astonishing Behance
Aug 12, 2024: One of those absolutely wonderful songs that lost something with production. The demo is easily my favorite
Aug 8, 2024: it’s impossible to hum while holding your nose. go ahead and try it…no one is looking.
Aug 5, 2024: 6:12 am the light sits golden on the green edges of the trees pasted onto a pale blue sky laying quiet next to you hearing the blackbirds roaming as they call …
Aug 4, 2024: Really old notebook drawing. Being featured in a small zine I am working on
Aug 4, 2024: The Lost Days = Tony Molina and Sarah Rose Janko teaming up for a lovely album of pop lament gems. In The Store by The Lost Days
Aug 2, 2024: A lovely little song.
Aug 2, 2024: Really enjoying the new Guidon Bear album Internal Systems by Guidon Bear
Jul 16, 2024: New post from micro.blog app. I am testing the waters and enjoying the simplicity.