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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

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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It was my birthday last month. It was low-key. I loved it. I went to the beach. Kite surfers were out in force this afternoon. For my birthday session. I got birthday wishes from AARP. That’s The American Association of Retired Persons. I am not retired. Nowhere close. I am working age still. I am working age. Incidentally, my first week of work went great. My bank also emailed me birthday wishes: Celebrating you on your special day! We are so grateful you are part of the Mission Fed family and…

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I really love the band Hospitality. Something dreamy but also arch and ironic but also deeply heartfelt. It’s got all the contradictions that I love so much in artists I encountered once I hit my 30s and 40s. Here’s a song called Friends of Friends: Actually, it’s so good I’ll link to two versions. One is live, one is an album version. The second has a music video with Alia Shawkat in it. It also has either Gabe or Max from “Gabe and Max’s How to Get the Dreamlife of Your Dreams Using the…

I moved another page which I’d brought into WordPress out of WordPress. And so, the new Writing page, which will continue to be a sort of work in progress. I really want to provide a bit more context, add more dates, and some nice summaries. Maybe even word counts? New job is going well. I...

From a gmail address. Emphasis in original. I am pretty sure this would be violating the law and violating contractual agreements which might get made should an actual “job” get booked. Subject: To Joe Crawford Hi Joe, This is %REDACTED%, and I’ve found your contact from LinkedIn. I’ve been managing an outsourcing team for the...

Yesterday the dog got zoomies. Zoomies are what Americans (others too?) call it when a dog runs around in circles in what looks either manic or fun or maybe both. Kelly had gone to work. And Gwen came back in from the walk, looked for her, and lacking Kelly in the apartment, the zoomies commenced....

Subject: need someone in san diego Joe, i’m a developer in %REDACTED% and can’t talk to us clients directly – language thing gets in the way. got 9+ years under my belt and a solid plan for landing us it work. technical side is locked in. what i’m missing is someone who can handle the...

Dan Q wrote The Lost Art of the Amusing WiFi Hotspot Name and I have to say, among the apartment dwellers such as me, it’s not entirely a lost art. True, there are many very boring default wifi hotspot names. But there are are a handful which have the capacity to amuse. To wit: Casa...

I will start a new job on Monday. In the lead up to that I suspect posting to my own site will slow down–somewhat. But then again, maybe not. I’ve done a good job updating how my site works to an extent it’s super malleable for me. But things have been updated. I’ve made so...

Today I read Tom Zylstra’s post human.json, in which he said (in response to two other posts: AI Policy and Human.json, Adding human.json to WordPress) the following: Claudine Chionh and Terence Eden both mention human.json, a data file that lists people and sites you know are written by humans, as opposed to generated by AI....

Front page of Comic-Con International website in 2025 I’ve had this image in my folder of potential blog posts and web pages since early 2025. I don’t have a lot to add in words. But I am always glad to see myself in costume with other folks in costume. On this image I’m center left...

I say time and again there’s a lot of stuff on my site. I consider the site a message in a bottle, a diary, a hangout, a digital garden, a junk drawer. But it’s mine and I like it. There are things here I forgot were here. Today I reworked 3 holiday cards from decades...

I don’t have a sitemap, but I am sneaking up on one. Here are some pages which have gotten some improvements lately. I learned a lot looking at my old splash pages. Lots of stuff afoot. Here are some sections: Search & Navigation search site index slash pages Projects headers mixtapes art weird web october...

Protecting my lips from the sun before the session. The sun slowly lower in the sky, mid session. After the sunset from my car. I’ve been listening to my 2022 mixtape ~ playlist. It’s good. Madonna’s Ray of Light is so beautiful. Impeach the President is on it. And that’s an old song. It’s got...

I do love drawing M.O.D.O.K. First posted at marchmodokmadness.blogspot.com. Not too late to draw and submit your own! Go! MODOK Go!

I heard over the lifeguard loudspeaker an order to a group of surfers to move north from the swim zone. I was catching waves, hanging out. Long gaps between. They were paddling as a group, making their way bit by bit. As much I’m in the water, I know surfers. I can see the ones...