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Sep 26, 2025: Some Friday nights are meant for memories loops.video/v/8GDl-Am…
Sep 26, 2025: Speaking of still being good i’m falling, in a supersonic daydream i stumble through the zero hour, hold on i’ll be right there, hold on i’ll be right …
Sep 26, 2025: Jsymphonically ( how i learned to stop and love the song) Follow up on the last. Sony has fallen at every DRM hurdle and famously locked down their network and minidisc players with proprietary software …
Sep 26, 2025: Little bit of nostalgia. Pulled out the ole Sony NW-HD3 and listening to Submission Hold a band with a message that is more important now than ever. …
Sep 12, 2025: wrestling gilgamesh it’s all out there between us at the grocery holding us apart on the streets these inherited opinions other’s thoughts become violence in our teeth we …
Sep 12, 2025: americano hot, no room for cream In light of recent events it feels appropriate to put this out there….little moment of reflection i had last week. I think being kind to yourself and …
Sep 8, 2025: Highly Suggested Reading: Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor 📚 I have always loved Red Dwarf and cannot rave enough about the companion books or audio versions …
Sep 7, 2025: Numbers and death are hard…if you don’t care A voice of reason yet again. Sadly, one not engaged in our public institutions and barely involved in our online discussion. Discussing RFK’s …
Sep 7, 2025: Sunday brunch playlist has been pretty great so far. Next up Deep Forest. A reminder that there is a benefit to seeking out and owning music so that …
Sep 4, 2025: I’ve always had a soft spot for the Get Up Kids. If you were of a certain age 4 minute mile was an essential album. Matt Pryor’s distinct voice is a …
Sep 4, 2025: Guided by Voices announce a new album the world - (of course i kid and good on them for keeping at it and putting it out there)
Sep 2, 2025: Working on another book cover. This time for Michael D. Grover. As usual you can check it out over on Magical Jeep
Sep 1, 2025: Finished up the front seats. Nice way to spend part of the day. Ami really did a great job finding the correct vinyls and altering the top panels on …
Aug 23, 2025: Well, we had to go searching for matching vinyls and alter the original seat cover but, overall….job well done I’d say.
Aug 17, 2025: Got out for a walk today. I am very lucky to live in an incredibly beautiful landscape. It’s hard to remember when things aren’t what you want them to …
Aug 12, 2025: Been super busy as of late and seems i have totally slept on Deep Sea Diver They are making me quite happy right now.
Aug 12, 2025: I am at once default skeptical of giving permissions to my most private memories, and amazed at how sweet and serendipitous this idea is. Cassette
Aug 11, 2025: So, leave it to me to take on reupholstering my seats on my 72 VW square and realize I have the wrong vinyl ordered a couple years ago. I have since …
Aug 8, 2025: Had a lovely time this week catching up with work mates during a summit. We even did some hiking which did me a world of good. I am so lucky to work …
Aug 8, 2025: Had a few days off and enjoyed a visit to a local car museum with my daughter(who was just too fabulous as per usual). You can find it over on LeMay …
Jun 30, 2025: It’s officially HAWT in the PNW so working on putting up the pool. Seems like you definitely spend more time taking care of a pool than enjoying it. …
Jun 20, 2025: It’s our anniversary so like always we’re working on some diy. Happy anniversary to my amazing partner in crime.
Jun 8, 2025: Anytime someone in a city says, “I know a shortcut…” go ahead and add 20 mins to your travel estimate. They in fact do not know a shortcut. They have …
Jun 7, 2025: Enjoying the weekend with a bit of a walk and throw with a very good buddy!
Jun 6, 2025: Working on another book cover. This time for a chap book by Christy Prahl. I am a fan of mid 70’s abstract loveliness. Check out the book over at …
May 28, 2025: Had a nice time grilling on my 1970’s charcoal burner. Previous owner kept the instructions and kept it pristine by putting clay cat litter in the …
May 26, 2025: My wife and I are doing important work…
Apr 14, 2025: Here’s my evening sorted. Killed by Epitaph a Dutch double LP punk comp I picked up in NYC some 27 odd years ago. A “out of print” Billie Holiday …
Apr 6, 2025: Lovely evening with the lady watching Kyle Kinane in Olympia. #olympiafilmsociety #comedy
Apr 4, 2025: Work continues to improve the living room. Ami put ups some record display shelves for me today while I was working. Proudly displaying some gifts …
Apr 3, 2025: Chicago in no order- Southside flea market, O’hare airport, Jumping Bean cafe in Pilsen, North side intersection near Bucket O’ blood books and …
Apr 1, 2025: Chicago always has the best abandoned shoes. Not sure what kind of Saturday night this baby had, but Sunday morning it was sans shoe
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.