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Crossroads at Axis Mundi
March 29, 2024
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Normal Heights
February 9, 2024
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& Home For the last ten years, I’ve been living in Normal Heights in a below market 2 bedroom apartment in a sagging, decaying 8 unit
AI and Art Making
January 16, 2024
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In my life, I have seen a cambrian explosion of computational machine capabilities. Machines (or more specifically programmed algorithms, neural
Kid World
August 30, 2023
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I’m in kid world, that place where my days are driven by the tempo and rhythm of children (usually but not always my kid). I’m in kid world much,
Archival Quality
June 12, 2023
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I’ve never been much an editor, much less an archivist. That said, I’ve always bucked against my own leanings and biases; felt like I should be a
A New Moon
June 12, 2023
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I lost writing, for a time. It was one of a myriad of things I threw on the pyre of trying to keep a failing marriage going, mortgaging
Time's Garden
August 8, 2022
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Time used to be different. We used to make time with the animals and plants. Spring was when daffodils bloomed, which varied year to year as we
A Pile of Dead Selves
August 2, 2022
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Death and rebirth is the name of the game. Rising, only to fall, only to rise again; life and death, victory and defeat, expansion contraction – the
The Grooves
June 1, 2022
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I used to suffer from optimization sickness. Whatever I was doing, I thought I could do it better. Whatever I accompished, I thought I could do
Things I Never Regret
April 12, 2022
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I never regret camping. I never regret going out dancing. I never regret writing. I never regret having an adventure with my kid. I never regret
En Memento Mori (Life in the Perma-Covid)
May 30, 2021
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Let us begin here, in what is the source of ancient & eternal wisdom: you will die. Unless you pin your hopes on some manner of transhuman excess or
The River
October 3, 2020
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Growing up, I spent a fair amount of time white water rafting with my family. We traversed most of the rivers available in California and beyond:
Canyon Crashing
October 2, 2020
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I love my city. I don’t love the housing prices. And we have our share of problems: our radical unsustainabilities, our hypocrisies, and it’s
La Jolla Fog
October 5, 2019
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The La Jolla fog swept in on a bright October day. San Diego early autumns are tricky; they can be the hottest time for the city a brutal second
On Travel
March 23, 2019
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I love the feeling of traveling, of having my entire life (briefly) strapped to my back. I love the light movement, surfing over the world and the
Scare-People
May 4, 2017
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In my apartment’s laundry, there is what appears to be a security camera (it might be fake). Someone has placed a crumpled sticker over the plastic