Monthly Archives: September 2010

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I am (kind of) a DJ, I am what I play…

Friday night my wife and I did our yoga class with music that we like to call Vinyasa Soul System.  Witness the poster-y fitness: I used to teach these under a different name, that of M3:  Music Movement Meditation. But then I got wise and let my wife teach the yoga while I did the Continue Reading →

41 and I still like to draw pictures of spacehips

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It’s true.  But at least these are for research so I feel less like I dork. Okay, it was actually really fun.  So there. These are two pictures I put together to help frame out the story for me.  They are both of the main vessel in my novel “A GARDEN GALACTIC” that I’m working Continue Reading →

Joe Haldeman & Writing Longhand

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BoingBoing had a post about this and so did my boy Marko but I figured I’d add it in there because the internet is all about redundancy, right? So here’s the Haldeman article. I’d add something to it but I really can’t and besides he wrote frigging THE FOREVER WAR and I didn’t and most Continue Reading →

OUR MAN IN THE EAST: ALSKAN POKER DISPATCH

Poker Dude is on the left.  MC Sweet Feets is on the right.  Poker Girl is rounding up rubes for the game. From time to time my boy Stewie checks in form the world traveling he does.  Currently he’s in Alaska working for money to loll in Bali in the winter. The following is an Continue Reading →

Blank Book Envy: Now you can has it.

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Check out these bad boys! 500 PAGES?!  WHAT ARE YOU?  A LONG HAND WRITING FREAK OR SOMETHING?! Yes, I am.  THough I’m digging the Picadilly I’m using now, I can’t wait to dig into these monkeys.  Holy crap.  That’s like 1,000 pages of longhand in this sumumumbitch!!! Guess I better get writing, huh? Tweet

On Autechre’s “MOVE OF TEN” or “How I learned to love Ae again.”

The following is a rambling, half-assed, inchoate rumination on Autechre’s latest EP.  It is published herein only because I was listening to it this morning. I’m here to talk about something very near and dear to my heart:  banging electronic music.  Stuff that sounds like monkeys typing along with a fax machine.  Like autistic savants Continue Reading →

Because I ain’t getting any work done

Here’s Devo getting it done – in a coalmine no less! Tweet

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Below are two of what I hope to be the most boring, inane and useless videos on YouTube.  They are meant to illustrate a couple of things. The first is what is involved in getting the manuscript you have painstakingly taken the time to write out by hand into a form that is legible for Continue Reading →