In my room the bed is upside down in the ceiling, that is how I prefer it. There are no windows in the stone wall of the fortress tower. It is warm in there, comfortable. The shelves along the wall reaches infinity, filled trinkets, machines, books and good-to-haves. Everything I want, need, and desire always where I look and when I need them. In here I can moce, desire as I want. In here, nobody is ever allowed.

i'll probably want to start some sort of project again with the start of the new year - not really sure yet what, or how intensive. but since i've been working quite hard this year on tarot, contentment, supportive habits, curbing online/impulsive/emotional shopping, limiting internet etc, i thought after the end of this current experiment i might want to try and completely let go of the reins until the end of the year. not completely undo my progress - i'm still going to hold on to those…

And that skill is BRUSH MAPPING... I'm extremely bad at it... In these last few pictures, you might see that I am currently trying to make one of those converted industrial spaces you see on the west side of LA, and it's not going well... Some shapes are just pretty unfriendly for patches I guess... I need to get stronger... I'm using Dark Radiant, the same tool that my husband uses on Blendo games. I am learning this partially for my own amusement but also partially to have basic ability to…

Towns hold what people were, and when a town lets things go, the signs are physical. Those I can photograph. When I do it well, the viewer may feel a blissful melancholy. I drive to Denton, Texas, often. I go to some area I’ve walked a hundred times and try to find something new. It’s a good game. In the end, I pick up fajitas at Ambro’s Taqueria and come home with one or two keepers. This rent house near Texas Woman’s University says a lot, and yet... that pink rake has probably been put away…

Hello, my friends! Welcome to a new blog post. Yes, as you can see, I’m still writing. Old habits die hard, but all kidding a side salad, I enjoy the challenge of attempting to write less (and shut the fuck up and be less of an online blowhard) with, well, a desire to share a life in menswear. After all, I still want to do my part in showing that one can indeed make “menswear content” that isn’t just reccos, PR, or some form of “founder marketing”. After all, I just tend to have a lot of…

Different trips, different stoves, and different tools for different jobs. An updated look at the backpacking stoves in our quiver. Read More ... Continue reading The Quiver: Our Backpacking Stoves in 2026 at PMags.com.

…or, strange things I've found on fleabay.Jings & crivens! A bonus post with limited reach, I'd imagine. But for those of us in the know... genius.Whenever I'm really fed up, or ill (I'm talking poorly-blanket™ level of illness) I scour a certain online auction site for obscure photographic items. Just a challenge.One such occasion, afforded by a broken rib and prescription strength pain killers, saw me embarking upon the challenge. Armed with a late 1970s/early 1980s Pentax catalogue a hunt…

STUFF I'VE WRITTENYou already had them. Three decisions that look unrelated, and the one thing underneath all of them.Also this week: Who is the machine working for?. My review of Cory Doctorow's new book, and the one question I now ask before handing anything to AI.From the Archive: How to make good decisions. Start by building a good toolkit.. A toolkit for deciding well. Worth rereading once you know what you are deciding against.STUFF I'M READINGA little thank you can go a long way. Leaders…

The Indieweb is exciting. Especially for a newbie like myself. So many cool links, styling options, blogroolols, directories, webrings, and such. Yet I want to stay true to my core. Which is about creating my art, poetry and writing in general. It can be easy to run around online doing all manner of things. But writing and putting my art out there is important to me. This is sort of a self reminder to stay on course, to stay in my own lane. And not go about chasing every shiny…

I want to shift my relationship with movement. Even the word 'exercise' makes it all sound so drab and not fun. I'm the sort of person who enjoys things being fun. It's a way of romanticising all that I do. Focusing on movement, pleasurable sensations, the feeling of freedom after moving or stretching, and the feel-good factor. Takes the heavy energy out of exercise. I'm even tuned out when I watch workout videos where there's all the gym equipment in the background. Where the instructor is…

I didn't manage to buy anything from the Elsecar show. OK, that's not quite true; there are a couple of goodies for future Garden Rail articles, but nothing for me personally. We came close, but I have more than enough projects knocking around at the moment.This isn't to say my wallet escaped unscathed. You see, the venue is home to a couple of antique centres, craft stalls, and a beer shop. From the latter, I bought piña colada cider, and from the craft shops, some Christmas presents. In the…

Howdy, y’all. As you may have noticed by the pictures up here, The Book of Awesome was recently made available for pre-order. I’m massively pumped about it and wanted to share my stories and my excitement with you this week. Now, over the past year, many folks have mentioned how much reading about Awesome Things has meant to them. Of course, writing about them has meant an enormous amount to me, too. Part of the reason I wanted to write the book was because I know there are lots of folks who…

Three times this week I went looking for something and found it already in hand. Wednesday it was a state. I've been projecting into Locale 1 for a year or two and calling it something else, and the aspect that finally sorted them was the exit. A felt pull-back, a transit, a click into the body, awake on arrival. Dreams simply end, always.

Arnold has been sick recently and has been admitted to the hospital for observation and tests. Because of that, he is currently offline and regrets that he is not able to read or respond to email or comments here for the time being.

Started playing open mic nights again. Really love the one at the jig and real in particular. Though I keep screwing up with the finesse of my ability to socialize and embarrassed myself pretty bad last time. First, a few weeks ago had a performance that went particularly well. And felt pressure to perform well this last time. I did ok but kind of phoned it in. I said an awkward joke which I think was aimed at myself… where at the end of the of the performance I said “you are about to watch…

Project ghosts, monsters, or old horror films right onto your windows with a hundred dollars and an hour. You will also need a molecule of confidence. If you have those things you can create a Halloween window projection like this. I first tried this last Halloween and it turned out to be one of those...Read More

We started attending Tucson Meet Yourself three years ago—before we even decided to move to Tucson. This year was the 51st annual celebration of Meet Yourself. Dozens of ethnicities and nationalities celebrate their parts in the history and present day of Tucson. We gravitate to our favorites but always find something new to learn about and experience. Long lines form for the fry bread made by the local natives, the O'odham Ladies. This is not the most heart-healthy food that a person could…

Last night we heard some music coming from a nearby street corner. It sounded great, so we checked it out and was blown away by the size of the crowd. It was an unofficial rock show on the sidewalk at 16th and Valencia, with a couple hundred folks (mostly teens) in attendance. Here’s some footage featuring a band called [algoslave]: Watching the video again, one thing that stands out is that the crowd is hanging out. The only phone in site is mine The show was also put on without the city’s…

This last Saturday afternoon, the sun was weak in the battle against the chill of the shady side of the flea market, and J and I prefer more chic silhouettes for jackets than warm ones. In the great battle to do anything but work for the class that is hated by most everyone in our program, we window shopped under the guise of gift shopping. Both of us left empty-handed, save for a Shakespeare-themed light switch cover that I swear my friend will get a kick out of for her upcoming birthday. A…

Busy weekend. Had a Friday night gig, early Saturday morning DJ set before a football game, and lazed about all day today. But I did work on some stuff in the home office. Sampled some stuff for an upcoming Halloween show that I'm DJing. And then finally changed the tape on my old Roland Space Echo. Sounds wonderful. So I plugged in my bass, looked around me, got the SP out and the trusty Roland System-1, and made a track. It's here. Actually, I love it. Lots of character in the bass, and then…

13th october to 18th october what i did despite my attempts to avoid it, i have found myself watching political streamers. job has entered the quiet season before the end-of-the-year rush, so it’s been a quieter, more relaxing pace, bless. my struggles with affinity continue. every day i use it, i find some discrepancy between what i think the app should ’naturally’ do and what it actually does, and end up muttering, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature,” to myself. early in the week, my partner was…

I went camping this past weekend in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. I'll do a full write up later, but I wanted to very quickly share my favorite type of camp host - kitties! I mentioned in my New Mexico story that the KOA in Carlsbad had little cabins for cats abandoned in the desert. Those adorable little guys made the place cozy. The HipCamp I stayed at this past weekend had a friendly host cat who hung out around the communal cooking and dish area. This burly black cat announced himself…

Hiiiiiiii wow it’s really fall huh……….. been waking up to 45 degree mornings when it feels like it was 75 just a couple weeks ago! Monday was Indigenous Peoples’ Day so I had the day off from work so I mostly just Chilled and wrote my Utah/Vegas blog (not posting until I have my film photos back though) and then got my covid vaccine for the year and then played more Silent Hill 3 for game club. I have a strong feeling that game club is going to just be me and one other coworker having played it…

It seems like I'm only attending every other autocross event lately. I missed the July event for my partner's birthday, and I missed September as I rested following a big bike ride. I will also miss the first November event, but that's getting ahead of things. I did manage to make it out for our club's October race. It had been long enough since our August event that I almost didn't want to bother with getting the car ready to race, like maybe I wasn't really into autocross anymore. That was…

Typing and editing from a bar. The birthday girl wanted to go line-dancing. The first two dances have not been too bad. The second was fun, even. I like the little twirls but still can't get used to all the stomping. One incentive to learn the moves is to avoid having your foot stomped on by a heavily-tatted lesbian in cowboy boots. She met me at Levant Pizza first, after I devoured four slices. Two pepperoni, two garlic and zaatar. The waitress has an English accent and looks like my friend…

So many things have changed since the last time I posted 17 days ago. Grandma has been in the same UTI Factory since getting released from the hospital. She is set to be released on Tuesday and will finally be able to come home. I took a bit of a break from constantly updating here because it seemed like, every other day, the complete trajectory of my life was changing so rapidly. In a way, it was almost starting to feel like I was writing fiction. And yet, there are so many things from the…

Oh man, I didn’t know what this movie was about when my wife put it on. These stories were hard to watch and that makes me sad in that it echoes so much of the what happened and what continues to persist.

News from Bus Stop M (part 1) I've noticed something odd at Bus Stop M over the last week or two. Buses on route 205 have started stopping here. I don't know precisely when or why, but this is excellent news for a very small number of people who live here or who change buses in Bow. Route 205 was introduced in 2002 in preparation for the launch of the Congestion Charge zone. Originally it ran between Paddington and Whitechapel, then in 2007 was extended to Mile End and in 2009 to Bow Church.…

I got a A5 clipboard from Penco two years ago. It was one of the “I don’t have money for a Plotter” but kind of similar things I tried out. So I pulled it out from my stationery cabinet and have been using it as a writing surface for my Plotter when I’m writing on it on the couch and a few times in the car. I like it a lot.

Funny thing. I don’t think I have used a regular notebook as my daily driver in a really long time. As I was checking my e-mail archive the last time I ordered a Leuchtturm1917 was the summer of 2023 and the last time I ordered a DotPad was in the summer of 2024. I have used both after that, but mostly left overs after when I just started using Travelers Notebooks for everything again, until I got the Plotter.