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Even mediocre conditions can make great sessionsI saw a surfer in the water smiling big. Conditions were middling. Closeouts. Pretty choppy. There were some corners to be had, but a lot of fierce paddling by surfers ending in not-ridden waves. The smiling man was smiling SO BIG. He looked like maybe he’d burst into song–like a 1950s Hollywood Musical. Not a young guy. Not too old. His ebullience was intriguing. I saw him take off on a wave. I moved a bit away. When I go out and bodysurf with…
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“Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.” Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (Kelly and I saw it at the Old Globe yesterday) Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
I had a new art piece up last month (it did not sell). Blossomsbugs2026 I’m still posting likes. I’m still posting bodysurfing videos. Blog of the .Day continues! If you have a blog, you are invited to join. See artlung/blogofthe.day on GitHub. I still host events at events.indieweb.org, which I enjoy a great deal. “Masks, Identities & Cosplay” is the current IndieWeb Carnival. I invite you to post to it. It means a lot to me. We traveled back east last month for a terrific family event which…
Screenshot of the default view of a new website on Neocities Note that it helps a newbie visualize a website as a set of files. Note that it includes a link to download the entire site. This came up because I’m listening in on a session at Nuremberg IndieWeb Camp 2026. Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
Last week I took some days off for a family event. It was a lovely trip. It’s commonplace to dread flying in the United States these days, and so it was terrific that it was uneventful. In addition to family time which I won’t share, Kelly and I got to tool around D.C. and Virginia a bit. Kelly had not been to the area since ’81 when Reagan was shot. And we got to go to a great museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture. It’s a great example of how long the struggle to get…
First thing firstly: I went to OB this morning. It was uneventful. Chilly. Wonderful after several days of not being in the ocean. I was in Northern Virginia / Washington D.C. Instagram used to be where I’d post trip photos. As the platform has worsened, I do it less. That obliges me to post here more. Or somewhere at least. It was a family trip. It was great. I’ll post more later. In the meantime, have a great week. Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
But maybe I do. When last I posted, I mentioned that I lost a fin in the big surf. That was on June 9, Tuesday. I've lost stuff before. A fin in 2025, which I got back. And 2021, which I didn't. And gotten them back before. So when I left early to take see if the fin might have turned up on the beach overnight I sorted the odds of recovery at about 60%. Not perfect odds, but fair odds. So for the morning walk, I took Gwen with me down to San Diego's own Ocean Beach and parked. We walked onto…
From MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS: ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by Pope Leo XIV: …those who control digital platforms and means of communication have a considerable ability to affect the collective imagination and to present a particular vision of reality as desirable. Such power should be constantly guided by the pursuit of truth and respect for human dignity, so that the culture fostered on the internet does not become an instrument of excessive distraction,…
I made a new mix the other day. Mellow Drama. Today in the water phrases from some of the songs kept coming to me. The waves were fine. Unextraordinary. Still would not trade this random Tuesday with most other days. Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
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If you have not yet fired up Junior Senior’s “MOVE YOUR FEET” today this is your signal to do so. (YT) Sydney Sweeney was apparent giantized in the show Euphoria and it hit my transom and so I updated my Giant Women page. I am too old to watch the show Euphoria. I won’t think too hard about the psychological reasons for my interest in giant sized women, but I will quote myself from twitter from 2013: Male gaze is the native gaze of my people. Sorry. Moving right along, and with great dispatch,…
Your browser does not support the video tag. Fun to track my small improvements bodysurfing using @dawnpatrol.app and @surfline — I use @procreate Dreams to add an overlay. Also on Instagram Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
A solid week I had. Financially I got to pay some things down which have been vexingly unmoving for quite some time. I scheduled a new instance of FrESH. I added the John Cale song Barracuda to my 2026 playlist. Dark woman in the water drowning Sinking in a funny way Black footing for a face exploding Mimicking our final days The ocean will have us all The ocean will have us all I don’t know quite what to make of that song but I like it. And I bought a new laptop. My old one a broken “n” key.…
I went to the beach Saturday. We washed Gwen Saturday. She was delighted. We watched Groundhog Day and it was–as always–excellent. Again. My art piece Galletas de Mar pero no comer sold Sunday. (Previously) My name is Art. On impulse, today I bought joespartydepot.com. It felt great. My name is Joe. I said to Kelly today “it’s nice to have a run of good stuff happen. New job. Refund on my income taxes. It’s been a run of good events.” She said “you were due.” Mind you, nobody is owed anything…
This is a post in response to Pablo hosting of IndieWeb Carnival for April, 2026 on the theme of “Adventure.” My parents contextualized difficult times as “an adventure.” Moving day was an adventure. Broken down car while on a family trip? Adventure. Sunburn during the summer? Adventure. I think it’s a valid way to think about the world. Life is an adventure. Human beings like me, and you, are subject to mortality, death, pain at every minute. People–young and old–have heart attacks and strokes…
It was a productive weekend. What on earth do I mean by that? I mean, I use that word: “productive”–it sounds like I worked. But I didn’t. It was a “good” weekend. But that doesn’t sound like anything. The adjective is useless. Good writing communicates better than platitudinal words. I did things! We went on the San Diego Book Crawl. We visited great bookstores. I got books on sea creatures, typography, a short comic. I bought a hair clip for my sweetie which has the Eye of Sauron on it. I…
