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I forgot to study!

had that nightmare again where I was supposed to be “studying the blade” while everyone else did cool stuff but I hadn’t ever taken my sword out of the box and I’m at sword-finals and I’m gonna fail

while your teeth were falling out and you were at school with no clothes on, I was (supposed to be) studying the blade

Gentlemen’s Swash! Pirate Parry, sneaky! Pirate Parry, bold! The Ol’ Razzmatazz! Big Swing-a-rooni! Thrust-o! Stabby! L’il stabby! Huz-ZAH!

The Pope’s Left-Hander! Ha! Elliot’s Sword Wiggle! Overhand Broccoli Bash! Underhand Twinkle Block! (please, please let one of these be right, I’m in so much sword-debt)

born too late

60 years ago it was possible for a single income household to afford a small starter home mounted on giant chicken legs that would roam through the forest

and today my real estate agent says I can only afford a wooden raft mounted on a blanket of worms

It turns out I can federate my personal weblog. Maybe this’ll get me to update my site more often. In recent years, I’ve used it to archive little fiction tidbits I posted on Mastodon, just so I don’t lose them, or to announce that I’ve posted a new music mix.

Might be the dawning of a new era.

Friday: Tools in the Deep

It’s Friday and we all know what that means! We pile up all our tools from the work week and fling them out into the dark waters of the quarry. For the coming weekend, the bubbles stop rising up as whatever lives down there starts its own work, deepening the pit, lowering the water, and we can float near the water’s edge in peace until the work week starts again and our tools resurface, acrid but still sharp.

beating heart

Don’t be ridiculous. There’s not a giant beating heart in the middle of the town square, suspended by strange ropy red cabling, powering the dark forces that have swept through the village. That’s ridiculous. How would that even work?

It’s obviously a metaphor. As such, it can be wrestled with symbolically, perhaps with wheat paste posters, but you absolutely shouldn’t fire a rocket launcher at it over the heads of the vampire lords who’ve replaced the local government.

The Signal: EP182

The Signal: EP182 – Exactly 45 minutes of music that may not be what you want, but it’s what you need. This time out, we’ve got movin’, we got groovin’… we’ve got garage punk from Austria and Indonesia, drum & bass, Yugoslavian jazz from the 70s, synth pop, Indian-American hip-hop, crackly Armenian vinyl and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess. I keep a list but I do it manually. Or just keep coming back here every once in awhile. It’s a free country.

low cost halloween costumes you can make yourself!

1. Can of soda – Hold can of soda out front of you, don’t do anything to draw attention to yourself behind the soda can

2. Sheet – Crawl under a sheet. Don’t come out ’til November.

3. Frankenstein – Allow your breast to swell with unimaginable hubris. Truly believe that any you create puts you on par with the Creator, whom you intend to surpass.

4. Dracula – Bite someone. After being invited, of course.

dubdubdubdub

The Signal – DUBdubdubdub. Something a little different this time out: a selection of dub techno, to accompany any flow state activity you might be engaged in.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

The Signal: EP181

The Signal: EP181 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed to make you spin in place and open your chestplate to let your heart light shine. This time out we’ve got hip hop, grime beats, drum & bass, post punk and punk-punk, retro-80s pop and griot music from Mauritania. Where else you gonna go to find a mix like that, eh?

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess. I keep a list but I do it manually, like an Ancient. I write the emails with a quill.

The Signal: EP180

The Signal: EP180 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed by expert ears to soothe your inner monkey. This time out we’ve got a Peruvian/Spanish-French polyglot pop, Fleetwood Mac-style vibes, wall of sound shoegaze, planetary core-deep bass, dubbed out reggae and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, you can ask to be added to the mailing list that I maintain by hand, though I admit that requires you to know how to reach me. You can figure it out.