๐ฟ Sorry/Not Sorry
Iโm a writer living in Calgary. I like making mixtapes, watching baseball and playing old video games. I have three kids and one wife. I wrote a novel. Sometimes I write other things.
๐ฟ Sorry/Not Sorry
๐บ Sweet Tooth (S1)
๐ฟ Moxie
๐ฟ Extraction / Extraction 2
A Journal of Innumerable Confusions. / Pop Loser Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 / Mixtapes / RSS / Podcast
Previously. / Newsletter #001โ78, #79โ97, #98โ113 (2014โ2018). / Original blog (2007โ2014) and Tumblr clone (2010โ2014).
Learn more about me and this site here.
๐ธ Miscellaneous early summer.
Bummer vacation. / Iโve been sitting on this post for three weeks, adding almost nothing to it. Itโs so old, thereโs a link to Brian Wilsonโs obit. I could take it out, but I didnโt. Why? Itโs summer. Go away. See you in the fall.
The Sun / Edvard Munch / 1911โ1916
Confusions. / ๐ค My couples retreat with 3 AI chatbots and the humans who love them. โThe problem with the trip, in the end, was that Iโd spent a lot of time imagining all the ways this getaway might seem normal and very little time imagining all the ways it might not. And so, on the second day of the trip, when things started to fall apart, I didnโt know what to say or do.โ / ๐ณ Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. / ๐ค WarGames terminal fonts. / Nerd Fonts. / ๐ฑ The Endless Doomscroller. / ๐๏ธ Combine feeds with rssrssrss.com. / ๐ฑ Scream to unlock. / ๐ป Wiki Radio. / Music For Programming (and other things, too). / ๐คผ The search for Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee. / ๐ธ How Muppets break free. / ๐๏ธ There will never be another WTF with Marc Maron. / ๐พ The art of Roland-Garros. / ๐งโโ๏ธ Zombie Family Circus. / ๐น๏ธ Finite Atari Machine. โThis project answers a question no one asked, no one wanted, and is a massive waste of resources: What if I shove a billion monkeys in a GPU and asked them to write a game for the Atari 2600?โ / ๐ฅ๏ธ absurd.website. / โฑ๏ธ Brian Wilson died. / โ๏ธ
๐ฟ The Babysitter
๐ฟ Slingshot
Pod Loser. / Look At Me (Now), a mixtape. (Podcast feed.)
Featuring: Young Fathers, Homeboy Sandman, Chuck E. Weiss, Blossom Dearie, Tune-Yards, The Limiรฑanas, Benjamin Booker, Laura Jane Grace, Bad Brains, Danny Brown, Bikini Body, Lambrini Girls, Father Of Peace, Smerz, Chicks On Speed, Lena Deluxe, Grateful Dead, and The Miracles.
Cassette via TapeDeck.org.
๐ฟ Incoming
๐ฟ No Hard Feelings
๐ Moonraker by Ian Fleming
๐ฟ Clueless
๐ Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
๐ฟ Life
๐ฟ Men With Brooms
๐ Blue Eyes by Jerome Charyn
The divine (situational) comedy. / I love sitcoms. True story. I like the format, the simple sets, the patter of the dialogue and that the episodes are more or less contained. I find them comforting. Most sitcoms are bad, a few are good and occasionally we get a great one. (The last โgoodโ sitcom was That โ90s Show. The last great one was The Good Place.) If weโre ranking the all-timers, my personal top spots go to M\A*S*H* and Cheers, which is not a wildly controversial take.
George Wendt died. Norm was the heart of Cheers โ a nice guy who didnโt really want his buddies knowing he was a nice guy (and also a raging alcoholic whose friends did nothing to help him as his health, career and marriage all fell apart). And as sitcom bits go, Norm walking into the bar is probably the greatest ever.
Loretta Swit died. Margaret Houlihan was a total pro and possibly the only character on M\A*S*H* who grew and evolved naturally over the course of the show (donโt give me your Klinger shit, itโs not the same). She started as one of the showโs villains and earned the best kiss on television with her goodbye.
Legends.
Also: Sorry for the lack of updates as we peter out of spring. Iโve been playing an unholy amount of Minecraft and am now behind on pretty much everything.
Confusions. / ๐จโ๐ป How the internet left 4chan behind. / CBC has a new podcast from Cory Doctorow: Who broke the internet? / url.town, (another) directory of (real) websites. / ๐ Close reading is for everyone. / They say that when god closes a Pocket she opens a Readeck. / The am dash. โA typographic intervention and a philosophical middle finger.โ / ๐ฅ Once lost and now found: The Day the Clown Cried. / ๐ The history of album art. โThe individual discs were bound together in packages resembling photo albums, partly to protect the delicate shellac that the records were made of, partly to increase their sales. They resembled photo albums, so Columbia called them โrecord albums.โโ / Man interviews mom about her 8-tracks. / Steve Albiniโs closet. / Rick Derringer died. / "[Psycho Killer](https://www.youtube.com/watch)" finally got a music video. / ๐ช The chairs of Doctor Who. / ๐๏ธ Department store catalogues. / โ๏ธ
New Television Antenna / Norman Rockwell / 1949
๐บ Lost in Space S2
๐บ Doctor Who (S11)
๐บ Schittโs Creek S1
๐ฟ Tombstone
๐ฟ Sahara
๐ฟ Final Destination