Dennis Moser 

I will not be performing at the “Freedom 250” event at the White House… …but you all probably knew that. 😇

... not in Kansas anymore

Dear old MetaFilter — it can always be counted on for something of interest, even my most jaded of moments. Came across the link to the following essay while strolling through there today.The essay…

... not in Kansas anymore

Read this earlier elsewhere and it more than resonated:I think one of the saddest things about the internet/instagram side hustle culture/late stage capitalism is that its convinced everyone they&#…

” [T]he infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy. Despite its name, the…

“We want everyone asking of every high tech product: Does it demand more of our attention than is needed? Does it become “pass-through” when we use it, so that we can focus only on the task, …

Listening to David Sylvian singing “Orpheus”, thinking about Proust and his evocation of the smell of those baking madeleines… while the smell of the peppers roasting in the oven …

Juste parce que, mais oui? @antara …and here’s a photo of a woman walking her dogs.

Easing into my “Friday” after a terrible post-birthday half-workday yesterday, I’m sharing this: it is a very practical piece of headgear. (When I went to have breakfast yesterday…

I encountered the work of Richard Serra completely by accident: on a photo-outing to visit The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, I just happened to be there the afternoon that “Vortex” w…

Henceforth, any and all my creative endeavors shall be considered copyright and created as of June-July, 1950. Why? Because I was born the first week of April, 1951. And I’m in such great com…

A very special event: Special performance today — 12 hours long — beginning at 3:00 pm SLT/US Pacific until 3:00 am SLT/US Pacific, featuring the generative sounds of Amelie, Brigitte, and Chloé — …

I’m not sure this bodes well for the pending immunity hearing — the Supremes have allowed him to stay on the Colorado ballot. … suppose we’ll find out soon enough.

Well, no… not me PERSONALLY, but this WordPress blog might be moving elsewhere. The greed that is driving the mass move to allow sites to be grazed for training needs to stop. If the move hap…

It’s the first Saturday of the month, so it is time once again. Sorry about January but honestly, December’s radiotherapy kind of kicked my proverbial butt and the idea of even holding …

Out with the old, in with the new. And yet it feels more like The Who —”Meet the new boss,Same as the old boss.” Yeah, maybe we did get fooled again. Whatever. Welcome to 2024, Your New…

“Aye, there’s the rub…”Reading this article made me think of all the discussions I’ve had with my early morning English students, dragging themselves to sit in front o…

1972. Where were you and what were you doing? If you were in the UK and can remember, how much has it changed since then? Was Ian making an enduring statement with this song? Not sure it was, or ha…

Meta has made their little darling, Threads, able to inter-connect to the Fediverse. That is, Threads will now connect with services such as Mastodon or Pixelfed. Why does this matter? Well, read a…