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2024.11.23 - Saturday

Nothing much new. Finished the Elden Ring DLC. Five stars. Watching the new season of WWDITS. Taking a day off here and there and enjoying the holiday vibes. Doing well. Hope you are, too!

🎮 Various PS2 Games
🎧 Pigs x7 - Land of Sleeper
📖 Devolution – Max Brooks
👍 MadS (French Horror Film)

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2024.11.23 - Saturday A mockup of a cassette tape that reads Ashen Altar – Remnants. The cover features a drawing of a hooded figure with candles on his head and a white, possibly masked, face.

Dropping my first dungeon synth project! Tapes will be available this Friday from the Realm and Ritual Demo Series. But in the meantime, you can listen here.

2024.11.08 – Friday

Obligatory post-election update. Not much nice to say. It sucks that this country is so dumb and angry. Gonna try to focus on the things I can control, I guess. Hope you're doing ok.

2024.10.27 - Sunday

I've been using Record Club and it's pretty neat. (It's kind of like GoodReads, but for music.) I now have three invites, so if you wanna try it out, shoot me an email!

2024.10.18 - Friday Two small stacks of cassette tapes sitting on a white desk. The 12 tapes are: Bad Brains (self-titled), Björk (Post and Vespertine), Gel (Only Constant), Chat Pile (Cool World), Jeff Rosenstock (Post), Godflesh (Post Self), Iron Butterfly (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida), Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited and The Basementa Tapes), and Mountain (On Top).

Check out my little cassette tape collection! Recent acquisitions – from Love Garden Sounds in Lawrence – include Vespertine by Björk, the Bad Brains self-titled debut, and Jeff Rosenstock's Post. (I kinda regret getting Post instead of Hellmode. So it goes.)

2024.10.17 - Thursday

Kinda want to make a plain text website and/or start using bearblog to write more. But I will probably end up just playing Elden Ring instead of doing either of these things.

2024.10.15 - Tuesday

Andrew Elmore dropped a new album earlier this month. Almost snuck by me, just finding out now. It's great. PSP beats! Do it!

2024.10.14 - Monday

I'm (what feels like) half way through the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC and it fuckin' rocks. Also listening to Bonfireside Chat as I go and it's such a wonderful way to experience a game. Highly recommended.

2024.10.14 - Monday A black cat lying on a desk.

Had a nice three-day weekend and am feeling refreshed. Went to a pumpkin patch with some friends and then took a day trip to Lawrence, KS. Poked around downtown, visited the art museum, etc. Had a good time, but nothing feels better than coming home.

2024.10.07 - Monday A hand holding a cassette tape titled Cool World by the noise rock band Chat Pile. The cover includes an image of a large cross standing in a gloomy midwestern landscape.

Got the new Chat Pile cassette and am listening to it for the first time while posting this update. So far, it's great. Haven't gotten into many new bands in a while, but I'm really liking these guys.

2024.10.04 - FridayA (mostly) white cat lying on a white bed with sun coming through a window in the background.

Anyway, look at my cute cat.

2024.10.04 - FridayAn embroidered patch featuring an illustration of Eggbug, the Cohost.org mascot, surrounded by text that reads FRIEND OF EGGBUG - COHOST.ORG. The patch rests on a window sill, a backyard can be seen through the window in the distance.

RIP Cohost.org. I had a nice time. I'm also trying to avoid over inflating that website's importance. But it shutting down feels like the end of something. A last gasp. Social media is essentially over, as far as I'm concerned. Personal sites, forums, and RSS feeds are the future. And that's not a bad way to go, I guess.

2024.09.30 - Monday

Puzzle update: we (finally) finished and all the pieces were present! I take back the disparaging comments I made earlier about our cats. They're good boys, afterall.

2024.09.27 - Friday

Listened to sad music all morning and have bummed myself out. (This is a rake I will continue to step on.) Anyway, I've said this before, but If I Didn't Have Your Love by Leonard Cohen is one of the best love songs ever written.

2024.09.26 - Thursday

Pushed a small update to the Links page. There's now (the start of) an 88x31 button wall. Check it out and visit some cool websites.

2024.09.23 - MondayA photo of a home office with two desks facing the wall. Above the desks are a 6x3 grid of album artwork. To the right of the desks is a bookshelf and a window.

Where the magic happens. (I strongly recommend grabbing a photo of the places you spend your time. It's nice to have something to look back on if things change.)

2024.09.22 - Sunday

I am now prepared for the Cohost shutdown. Got a solid setup going here. Finished making a list of the people I want to keep an eye on. And I’m becoming a total RSS sicko. See you on the other side.

2024.09.21 - Saturday

Seeing those giant skeletons around town. The greatest innovation in Halloween decor that's happened in my lifetime, by far.

2024.09.19 - ThursdayA moody, low-quality photo of a sunset taken from inside of a car. The windshield wipers and the car's dashboard are silhouetted in the foreground. The sky is dark and a line of trees block the left half of the horizon. The whole image is slightly blurred by the motion of the car, which appears to be turning onto a road.

Took this photo a couple nights ago. Feels like something I would've taken with my shitty phone in like 2008 (non-derogatory).

2024.09.19 - Thursday

Puzzle progress report: The cats finally fucked with the puzzle. Found some pieces down the hall and one in the linen closet. It was bound to happen, I guess. This whole thing will probably end in frustration. So it goes.

2024.09.18 - Wednesday

We’ve been going to the gym lately, which has been great overall. (Who would have thought?) But the big thing they don’t tell you is how much time it takes. Work a full-time job and then also go to another place and exercise for like an hour? A total day melter.

2024.09.16 - Monday

Finally figured out the basics of setting up an RSS feed. Sharing my notes, in case it can be of help to anyone else. This also goes over the basics of rosting (RSS direct posting). Check it out.

2024.09.16 - Monday A photo of a pudgy white cat lying on a yellow chair. The cat is slightly leaning up and appears to be looking slightly below the camera, with a tired and slightly annoyed expression on his face.

I will 100% post exclusive cat pics here. This is an old one that I had on hand to test things out. So, uh, stay tuned.

2024.09.15 - Sunday

Maybe TMI but I got a vasectomy earlier this month and I highly recommend it. Not a big deal and it guarantees a bright, childless future. Posting this because if I had known how easy it was earlier, I probably would have done it years ago.

2024.09.15 - Sunday A cassette player and headphones next to two cassette tapes. One of the tapes is labelled GODFLESH and the other is Björk's iconic 1995 album Post.

I'm into cassette tapes again. The last time I regularly used a cassette player was probably in middle school. Having a very nice time with this lil guy from Turntable Labs. Blessed to not be an audiophile.

2024.09.14 - Saturday

When all the good places to post go away, you have to create your own. This is a total ripoff (with permission) of whack.zone. I plan on posting little updates and occasional thoughts here. You can follow along via the Atom feed, if you'd like.

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