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A poster created for the Donner Bike Camping Overnighter Last month's Pony Express Bike Camping Overnighter was so fun, I decided to do the August overnighter that California Travis convened, the Donner Bike Camping Overnighter. Here's...
I’m now reading my way through The Many Days: Selected Poems by Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) and enjoying greatly the directness, simplicity, and thoughtful depth of his poems. This morning I read this poem he wrote on a train from London...
Shoppers I Shoppers II
I'm still knee-deep in work on the revision of Thousand Suns and a couple of other writing projects, hence my continued neglect of the blog. Apologies! I will have more posts when the opportunity permits. However, I did want to break my...
A storm erupted in the western sky. The rafting People worried. Hand and Knife promised that they would be safe. The storm would not come to them. Upon the ocean the rafts drifted east. The Child God urged them forward. The ocean current...
Back in the 90s a notably pedantic coworker informed us ignorant peasants that, according to International Electrotechnical Commission standard IEC 80000-13:2008, disks and memory were now to be measured in “bi” units such as kibibyte...
My character, Raymond, is a member of the main cast but not the lead character. He is Tulalip native, and is the only human in the main group with the rest being non-native werewolves. The group as a whole is all fresh out of high...
Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past fortnight… Mostly French(ish) comics, eh? Didn’t really plan that. So as usual, a couple of issues of Spirou. I really like the Imbroglio météo series. It fun and fresh, but in a very classic...
It’s mid-August, and still hot summer in Palo Alto, but the nights are now cool (quilt time is upon me) and it’s cool when I get up (around 3 am), moving me to put on a thick flannel shirt and gelling the coconut oil I use to treat my...
Is this worth including beyond the street photography joke, do you think?August 16, 2025. Just a little over a year ago. Still surprised how little time I've been in Minnesota.
This post is an entry for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon The Pocong is one of the most popular Indonesian ghosts or spirits besides Kuntilanak, the white lady ghost. Personally, it's not my favorite. That honor goes to the Kuyang, a...
“Destroy every living thing in that room – every living thing, no matter how small. Abner Whately’s grandfather wrote in the strange letter he left after his death. Abner did not understand until he saw the prints in the dust of the...
I’ve decided to restart another series of blog posts I started on my old blog but never got too far with. I’m calling it ‘From the crypt’ in honour of the now defunct Ken’s death metal crypt and also because it just feels right. I’ve...
Two of my favorite people on this planet happen to also be two of my favorite photographers, and both are instrumental to how my life has unfolded. From the left we have Christopher Michel, Kevin Kelly, Sophie, and myself: Yesterday, we...
Have you ever seen something that has immediately made you do a double take? Valonia ventricosa is one of them – and that is even before you discover how truly strange this organism truly is. At first glance, it looks like a green...