“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...

I spruced up my mixtape lists. The earliest dates to 1984. 14 yr old-me who cared a great deal about the levels, taped stuff from the radio and from my uncle’s record collection. I was only chewed out about messing with the tonearm balance once. I’m still making mixes. See them all at artlung dot...

In July my cousin had an accident that landed her in an ICU. Her parents and husband have coordinated family to be present for her 24/7. We are a large enough family that we can do this. I have been present for her for several sessions now. At the beginning, she did not recognize me....

Thursday is the 35th instance of IndieWeb Front End Study Hall. In a time of trouble gathering with others to learn to make better websites with HTML and CSS with folk of all skill levels is terrific. Bring www wishes & confusions and let’s learn together. Front End Study Hall #035 See also: Front End...