Musical Endeavors Near and Far
Last night I took Milo to see Stewart Copeland entertain a sold-out Kessler with stories starting with his childhood in Beirut through his recruiting of Sting to be in The Police, to meeting Andy Summers and Summers inviting himself to join, creating the band we've all known and loved since 1978's Outlandos d'Amour...
When Machines Make the Incompetent More Confident
Can I get the logo in cornflower blue?
The Output of Belonging
The problem with allowing our work to be enclosed and captured by large language models does seem to be in the zeitgeist
AI Is the Most Hilarious Possible Continuation of What It Means to Simulate Thinking Through Language
Aboard Newsletter: But I Love Stochastic Parrots...
Art for Art's Sake
If anyone is to lead the way out of the rational cage which the church has built for itself, it will be her artists.
I Love Mycelial Musical Rabbit Holes
This post is for IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Write a love letter. This is a love letter to sticky bars, record bins, internet rabbit holes, folks who remember what it meant to not sell out, figuring out what show to go to by talking to friends, singing along, hi-fis.
Pathologizing Our Own Humanity
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Pull
It didn’t matter if it was real or not. Wren walked up to the button, removed their helmet, and slammed their hand down.
Some Fiction
I finished Accelerated Growth Environment a couple of days ago. I enjoyed it...
Gravity
Gustave Thibon, in the intro to Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil. I'm assuming the quotes are Simone[^1], and have italicized them...
Cozy
Cozy as the real antidote to late capitalism
Sigh
I quote-tweeted Cory Doctorow's Mastodon post linking to his Comrade Trump post. I quoted this part...
Volleyball in OK
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It's Hard Living in the 21st Century Everything Comes with a Price
📺️ Noah Gundersen - Die Young (Official Music Video)...
Our Knowledge Exceeds Our Wisdom
It could be that once a civilization develops the means to destroy itself...it goes ahead and destroys itself inexorably because it's just too difficult politically to run a civilization that has the power to destroy itself...
Weird Liminal Numinous Grace
I've updated the tagline of this website for the first time
What Feels like a Flaw Is the Beginning of Clarity
Why Being Weird Is Often a Sign of Psychological Health...
Life Can Be Weird. Weird Can Be Good.
Random, weird, probably unimportant observations, connections, thoughts.
The Suffering God
Last Wednesday night at my church's Lent speaker series, the speaker used G. A. Studdert Kennedy's The Suffering God to anchor his talk. In fact, he read it twice, at the start and end. The next morning I felt prompted to read it out loud myself...
We Spend a Lot of Energy Pretending We Aren't All Just Tired and Terrified to Varying Degrees
'Notes From A Functional Outsider' by The Functional Melancholic