2024

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“…progress is never straightforward: there’s baby steps and then one day you notice enormous baby thuds…”

Correct. From Robin Rendle

If the games you’re playing are too normal, let the Weird Fucking Games help.

Dan Hon’s DONOTREPLY.CARDS have a permanent home. Use them to get ahead of dicks on social.

Had a great show. Thanks to everyone who came out. We have a residency: next one is March 29th. Be there or be sad.

Shakespeare is opening for us tonight.

A white board with Macbeth at 7pm and Cats Cradle at 9pm.

It’s showtime tonight for my improv team The Cat’s Cradle Ensemble. Big times at the players theatre. Getting in the zone.

The idea about moving slowly but surely with the people around us and not giving into the technology or the solution’s needs is so sadly hard to believe it’s even possible. But look the Amish have been doing it for a while and it’s generally working.

Another gem from The Halfman newsletter, on misconceptions about the Amish’s relationship to technology.

Nobody is a winner on the bus. Yet we’re all comfortingly together on this heap of disappointment with wheels careening through the beer fuelled night. There’s no VR app for that.

The Halfman newsletter

I’ve been waiting patiently for poetic bus musings, and it’s finally here. Most misunderstood and under appreciated American natural resource.

Syncing Dark Side of the Moon to The Wizard of Oz is so old hat. If you’re for real, sync it with something new, like Ozempic ads.

“The Beatles experimented with LSD, and that’s when they became, you know…”

Overheard outside my old Jersey City apartment from some young guy talking to his presumed girlfriend.

Lifeblood under Sunset Park

This is part of a series on my nomadic life following my divorce. Aside from the introduction, they can be read in any order. Blood spurted from my ring finger. A chunk of flesh was missing, scooped … Read more

I have negative ass; when I sit down, people around me get more space.

Sometimes I feel like I spend my life on knobs and dials.

Backpack Home: Nine Months of Couch Surfing

After the fallout from my divorce, I was not able to afford an apartment for almost the entirety of 2023. Instead, I spent nine months couch surfing, living entirely out of a small, overstuffed … Read more

Customer service is a joke. Related: fuck UPS.

Moved a crap load of boards and pipes for a shelf into the apartment with my roommate. It’s not doctor approved, but I’m checking of “exorcise” for the day.

The manhattan Alamo has a VHS collection. The ghost of Kim’s Video poking out.

A shelf of VHS tapes, mostly obscure,B, or Japanese genre films.
A clear day view from an elevated train platform looking down a bustling urban street lined with buildings. The street is filled with cars and a few pedestrians, with patches of snow on the sides and a clear blue sky above. The city skyline is faintly visible in the distance under the soft glow of the setting or rising sun.

Astoria Boulevard from the train station.

You know when people say, “We can laugh about it now”? I had to learn not to laugh about it then.

I wrote an Architecture Decision Record to Use SVGs for icons for Lullabot along with some of my wonderful co-owners. I’m so happy this is not at all controversial in 2024.

I’m letting my beard grow out for the winter. Currently, it’s at the “curling up under my neck” phase. Something must be done.

Made a delicious lentil curry off my chef friend Kayla’s recipe.

A green bowl with a yellow lentil curry inside. There’s chopped herbs on top, and an orange yolked soft boiled egg broken on top.

My psychedelic improv team the Cat’s Cradle is playing the Player’s Theatre again March 1st at 9:30pm. Get tickets before time folds in on itself (discount automatically applied).

Image of a black box theater, with several improvisors arrayed on stage in a twisty stage picture. Titles are superimposed over the image in neon lettering. The title is “Cat’s Cradle”, followed by the date of the show, “Friday, 03/01 @ 9:30pm Players Theatre NYC” and a link to tickets at catscradleimprov.com. A quote appears at the top: “High energy, psychadelic, improv comedy”

Apropos of nothing, I’d like a band called “Pesto Acropolis” to exist.