My friend Jon Solari kept surprising me with bright flash photography.

The camera is an old black and white film job, so no filters here.

I tried to sneak a selfie Jon would find later, but didn’t know how to work the camera, and ended up with a double exposure. Pretty cool.

Heather Buchel’s post on why men ruined web design is spot on. The gendered split between “design” and “development” is bad for people, and bad for the eventual product. Our titles reflect the shift. I used to be a “Technical Artist”. Now, I’m a “Front End Developer”.

Peter Pan buses now charge to leave.

Started reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 📚

As the premier published resource on quirky calendars in macOS, it is my sad duty to inform the world that they have been removed. I’m not sure which update killed them, but they’re gone in Sonoma. Whenever it happened, the world got a little bit less fun.

Started reading: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚

Did not finish: Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon 📚

What’s up with maps where you have to scroll 16 miles away and zoom in and out like an idiot to see the street name.

The Damned were great. Rocking, dramatic, and playful. Lots of fun.

At The Damned Halloween 🎃 show. Pictured: opener Fucked Up. Great so far. Waiting for the main act.

What’s that thing where a guitarist will change out their guitar and then the band sounds exactly the same.

Saw Kaiju Big Battel last night. Pictured is the climactic match between the heroic Steam Powered Tentacle Boulder and the villainous Dr Cube.

Our Cat’s Cradle Ensemble show last night was such a great time. Thanks to everyone for overselling the show and being a wonderful audience.

I thought I found a new mole or maybe a tick on my leg. It was a chia seed.

Coming late to Clare Dederer’s The Art of Monstrous Men, tackling how you and I handle art we love from awful people. It is so incisive, dare I say brilliant, not shrinking from any angle. Added her new book Monsters to my reading list. 📚

Our Cat’s Cradle show is sold out! Thanks to everyone who bought tickets–we’re very excited to put on a great show for y’all. If you don’t have tickets, there will be a wait list, so arrive at 8:30pm to add your name.

iOS 17’s Check In safety feature seems really useful when needed. Concerned that either the time-based or location-based flavors will have too many false positives in subway rides tho.

My group the Cat’s Cradle Ensemble is performing a fully improvised off Broadway show at the Player’s Theater, Friday October 27th at 9:30pm. Tickets are selling fast!

When talking about the joys and pains of making art down here in reality, a friend introduced me to Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student. It covers the music industry, but I found it broadly applicable.

We do not live in a meritocracy, hard work doesn’t automatically equal success when we are competing against those who have paid their way to the front of the line. But not to worry Billy, you have time to make your mark in your beautiful hometown of New York, let me tell you why.

I’ve decided to publish my old fiction on my blog. Here is one of them. I saw a man walking towards a pond the other day, swinging a headscarf, balancing on a tent pole. He was broad, lean, and … Read more

Started reading: Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon 📚

Good cop: Tell us what you know, and we’ll get ice cream.

Bad cop: If you don’t talk, you’ll never eat ice cream again!

Weird cop: in clown suit I prefer sorbet.

First rule of over sharers anonymous—tell everyone.

Found my plant at the Brooklyn botanical garden.

Finished reading: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 📚

Brilliant razor blade dissections of what it feels like to live in the world right now.