I spent a fair amount of time on Weird Web October today. artlung.com/wwo/ I added reels recently. And some great rides. I need to shave though. Kind of beardy right now. But I’ll get to a shave soon. So many good likes lately. And new folks added to my blogroll. That’s all I got for...

Merrill Markoe talking about Colbert & Kimmel is amazing. I actually once shepherded a piece on the Letterman NBC show called “Meet the Censors”, in which we intentionally violated, in front of a live studio audience, every one of NBC Dept. of Standards and Practices censorship rules. We then asked the censors to have their...

You are writing a post about birds. Your mind is now sculpted into a new shape, imagining that you are writing a post in response to Fractal Kitty’s IndieWeb Blog Carnival Prompt, Second Person Birds. You wonder if you remember what “second person” actually is. And you do! You know that you have plenty of...

Originally posted to the WebSanDiego mailing list on January 14, 2005. This is just barely on-topic. So these days of still-not-moved in, waiting for my new abode to start, waiting for a new gig to happen, turns out I’ve discovered my new mobile office. It’s not Starbucks (t-mobile doesn’t offer reasonable month-to-month plans), but rather,...

This month’s IndieWeb Movie Club is for The Wild Robot. It’s hosted by Zachary Kai. I liked the film. It has a great setting. An innocent and appealingly designed robot. And forest creatures on an island without people on it. The robot is forced to adapt. It takes a role in the ecosystem. It learns...

Here’s a photo of Henry taken in July 2021. And here’s a photo where Henry was the green in the background of a new bot day, from the beginning of COVID, April 2020. I knew Henry was old. I didn’t know how old. So I texted my ex and reported the death. Their response: We...

Tim Synder on Superman: The virtues of Superman: A medieval movie review (2025) Superman, in the film, is an innocent superhero. This character type goes back to Siegfried in the Nibelungslied. The medieval Germanic hero is as strong as twelve men, he can become invisible, and is invulnerable except for a single spot between the...

I’m rather happy with the IndieWeb wiki: it’s at indieweb.org. It’s a great resource and has had great additions and documentation added to it over the years. Folks like gRegor and James and Tantek and many, many, many, others have made and improved terrific living history of independent websites. The topic is so large it...

“The need is absolute.” I’m quoting Peter O’Toole playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. Two incredibly interesting and problematic twentieth century people one filling in for the other to tell a story. That line, which O’Toole says in reaction to the question of the need of phones in a recently liberated town taken from...

Trump’s Gleichschaltung: The “Synchronization” of American society with its increasingly omnipresent government The intended conditioning is clear: before you do anything, check with the Dear Leader first because you can never be quite sure whether or not it passes or fails in his omnipotent judgment. And, yeah, that includes your sense of humor. This forced...

Love this. JJ, me, Shannon, Angel. We lost Eddie a few decades ago but he was there in spirit. Family is fraught. Family is awesome. All love. Hold your dear ones close.

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Dose 6 administered on Sep 19, 2025 Name: COVID-19, mRNA, LNP-S, PF, 50 mcg/0.5 mL (12+ Spikevax) 22 hours ago got my sixth COVID shot. Today I’m taking it easy. Sia This morning I woke up with Sia’s Elastic Heart in my head. Sia’s interesting. There was an image of Sia on the screen a...

I will mourn those who I feel grief over. You can’t demand I mourn. You may request basic respect for the dead. You can’t demand I respect a legacy I find invidious. You can’t demand I ignore the words of the dead. If you can demand my feelings and thoughts be “correct,” you are authoritarian.

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At #IndieWeb HWC yesterday we ran VS Code w/”Live Share” plugin. In a few minutes 5 of us wrote a web page. Surveillance tech is an enshittified anti-labour mess but tools—the means of production—to pamphleteer and agitate and samizdat and protest are in our hands. Websites. James wrote about it in Collaborative web weaving

My cousin, who I wrote about recently, has been discharged. This is the best and most significant news for my circle lately. I have been listening to CMAT lately. I first started listening when I came across Jamie Oliver Petrol Station and now EURO-COUNTRY is on heavy rotation for me. It apparently has stopped a...

There’s a line in Clueless from the character Dan Hedaya plays: “You divorce wives, not children” Well, every situation is different and I’ve not been as good a step as Mel Horowitz was. But I am still filled with good feeling and every best wish for those kids. It was great to see Tony last...

On August 16, I attended Connect + Reflect: A CreativeMornings Mixer and I really enjoyed it. It was co-hosted by Head of Community at CreativeMornings, Exa Kutler and FieldTrips Team Member Lauren Deborah. I am usually on the… obstinate side when it comes to writing prompts. The structure was great. Rather than a single giant...

In San Clemente California TRUMP DON’T SURF is as spitting as insult as I can possibly imagine. 2018 2019 Vietnam draft dodger Trump ain’t no LTC Kilgore anyway.

Preamble The Ojo Creativo studio is down the street from Chicano Park, which is around the corner from where I was baptized, which I talk about in my comic. It got on my radar during an art crawl a few years ago. About Ojo Creativo Rafael Rios photographs tintype images. These are not kitsch. And...