The American Caliban
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I would prefer not to.
Woke up to a mysteriously trashed right knee. Can barely make it around the house with a cane. How? Why?
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Woke up to a mysteriously trashed right knee. Can barely make it around the house with a cane. How? Why?
We need more 3/4 and 6/8 in popular music.
December 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We need more 3/4 and 6/8 in popular music.
Spending the 80s bus commuting with a Walkman has after effects. “Soul Survivor” came up on the mix and I was immediately on the 170 headed north from Hollywood at 8 am
December 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Spending the 80s bus commuting with a Walkman has after effects. “Soul Survivor” came up on the mix and I was immediately on the 170 headed north from Hollywood at 8 am
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my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"
Life gave me inner demons, so I made inner demonade.
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Life gave me inner demons, so I made inner demonade.
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RIP, man. Thanks for building a conference room sheathed in metal scales at my old gig; I got stuck between it and a support column once and wrecked a take of the BTS for Flags of Our Fathers getting free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
RIP, man. Thanks for building a conference room sheathed in metal scales at my old gig; I got stuck between it and a support column once and wrecked a take of the BTS for Flags of Our Fathers getting free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
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The Joker vs The Skipper Thanksgiving Dinner Showdown! Their fight over Anton is probably the most tragic aspect of what undoubtedly was a bitter feud, as I’m sure Anton used to play concertina at the Lobster Barrel before Cesar worked his charms to lure him away… “For you, my dear Anton - A PIANO!”
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The Joker vs The Skipper Thanksgiving Dinner Showdown! Their fight over Anton is probably the most tragic aspect of what undoubtedly was a bitter feud, as I’m sure Anton used to play concertina at the Lobster Barrel before Cesar worked his charms to lure him away… “For you, my dear Anton - A PIANO!”
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I didn't realize atomic bomb tests in Nevada were visible from Los Angeles.
www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...
www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...
How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles
www.amusingplanet.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I didn't realize atomic bomb tests in Nevada were visible from Los Angeles.
www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...
www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...
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Happy Birthday, George Eliot. Thank you for writing out your beautiful heart despite everything.
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy Birthday, George Eliot. Thank you for writing out your beautiful heart despite everything.
Nice rainbow today!
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Nice rainbow today!
The coffeehouse has an automated pour over machine. The machine has WiFi. The WiFi is not secured. 🤡
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The coffeehouse has an automated pour over machine. The machine has WiFi. The WiFi is not secured. 🤡
THE DISCOVER TAB:
1. Already saw that!
2. Blue wave mom, follows sixty-five thousand people, posts AI memes
3. BIG GAY TORSO!!
4. Jesus H. Christ did you actually just post that?
5. Impenetrable entertainment fandom drama
1. Already saw that!
2. Blue wave mom, follows sixty-five thousand people, posts AI memes
3. BIG GAY TORSO!!
4. Jesus H. Christ did you actually just post that?
5. Impenetrable entertainment fandom drama
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
THE DISCOVER TAB:
1. Already saw that!
2. Blue wave mom, follows sixty-five thousand people, posts AI memes
3. BIG GAY TORSO!!
4. Jesus H. Christ did you actually just post that?
5. Impenetrable entertainment fandom drama
1. Already saw that!
2. Blue wave mom, follows sixty-five thousand people, posts AI memes
3. BIG GAY TORSO!!
4. Jesus H. Christ did you actually just post that?
5. Impenetrable entertainment fandom drama
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DAD: Babe, I think the kid has Ovid
MOM: What? Covid?
CHILD:
Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within
A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin
DAD:
To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love
Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.
MOM: What? Covid?
CHILD:
Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within
A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin
DAD:
To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love
Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
DAD: Babe, I think the kid has Ovid
MOM: What? Covid?
CHILD:
Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within
A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin
DAD:
To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love
Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.
MOM: What? Covid?
CHILD:
Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within
A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin
DAD:
To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love
Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Happy Armistice Day to all who like peace!
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Happy Armistice Day to all who like peace!
One of this last week’s many horrors is the thing that finally made me snap. Not sure yet which one.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
One of this last week’s many horrors is the thing that finally made me snap. Not sure yet which one.
- drive out to the desert to see the Dream Syndicate play
- stay over a day and do desert stuff
- find out they’re playing today at a house walking distance from my place
- drive back home to see the Dream Syndicate play
- stay over a day and do desert stuff
- find out they’re playing today at a house walking distance from my place
- drive back home to see the Dream Syndicate play
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
- drive out to the desert to see the Dream Syndicate play
- stay over a day and do desert stuff
- find out they’re playing today at a house walking distance from my place
- drive back home to see the Dream Syndicate play
- stay over a day and do desert stuff
- find out they’re playing today at a house walking distance from my place
- drive back home to see the Dream Syndicate play
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The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn
He says let’s go for a ride, and he says it all the time 💀
Halloween
YouTube video by The Dream Syndicate - Topic
youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
He says let’s go for a ride, and he says it all the time 💀
Someone tweaked my side mirror in a parking lot. Worse things happen at sea etc but I tire of these moderate misfortunes.
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Someone tweaked my side mirror in a parking lot. Worse things happen at sea etc but I tire of these moderate misfortunes.
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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
Bluesky, the new public sphere
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Bluesky, the new public sphere