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These are uncooked, unlinked, and sometimes unhinged observations, moments, and thoughts. Maybe these things will eventually be planted in the garden, maybe they won't.




03/19/26 ↓

Live stream of the first mixtape was a great success. Thanks to all those who logged in for what was, for all intents and purposes, a playlist. Here's a snip from the surprise chat room:


03/07/26 ↓

What a grind!!


02/07/26 ↓

Just leaving this paper on 1-bit music here so I can print it at work.


02/06/26 ↓

Ash Wednesday is soon - my favourite. "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."


01/31c/26 ↓

Just found/read the last issue of Drop D Magazine from June 1998, Vancouver. Particularly enjoyed the Inbred's show review where the writer talks about the lack of tightness and musicianship from the opening band - The New Pornographers.


01/31b/26 ↓

Ark Two community - a large doomsday shelter community in Ontario. Once a friend in university (Alberta) told me that her dad made her and her siblings memorize the coordinates of a bunch of busses buried underground in case of societal collapse, etc, and this makes me wonder how many of these there really are in the country.


01/31a/26 ↓

Inspired by a piece in The Wire magazine, I'm going to do web radio broadcasts of my mixtapes. The article is called Against the Stream: DIY radio subverts the hierarchies and algorithms of the mega-platforms By Paul Rekret, btw.


01/23/26 ↓

Argument - all learning is professional learning when you are a teacher.


01/18/26 ↓

I stopped keeping score, because I'm a gentleman but...


01/14/26 ↓

Chatting with web radio DJs while making dinner.


01/12b/26 ↓

Made these logos for my developing curling team.

Circular curling crests that say Rock Bottom Curling with an upside  curling stone in the middle and two brooms crossing behind it with white flags attached to them


01/12a/26 ↓

An excellent sermon on absorbing and releasing God's light from the Reverend Bolz-Weber.


01/06/26 ↓

Read on someone's blog that gen Z and millennials are going offline/analog this year. I can believe that listening to a skippy discman is a solution for something, I guess. (but what?)