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We watched the movies “21 Jump Street” and “22 Jump Street” this weekend. They’re kind of dumb, but also fairly fun. I remember watching reruns of the original show back in the 90s. My little sister really liked it. I remembered approximately three specific things from the show: Continue reading “21 Jump Street”

Drove two hours today to a little TV station to read a couple of my poems — “Freedom is a Cat” & “The Robot Unicorn Solution” — for the release of a book I made the cover art for!
I’d never seen a green screen in person before, let alone been filmed in front of one. Pretty cool!

Me: How much cake is left?

Spouse: None.

Me: No cake?!? That’s the worst amount of cake. Continue reading “Infinite Cake”

After several hours listening to an AI clone of my voice, constantly judging whether it’s hitting quite the right note, I find I feel weird when I actually speak out loud, because I’m still in the habit of carefully monitoring & judging my voice. It makes everything sound weird.

Brain: let’s put a Taylor Swift song on loop!

Me: you mean get a song stuck in my head?

Brain: how about one where she rhymes with “legendary”! Continue reading “Legendary Boysenberry”

The Walk (2015) is an incredible movie and also extremely, weirdly stressful given that I knew it would end just fine. I still spent the final third of the movie completely knotted up with tension. I would definitely not have wanted to see it in the theater.

I’ve written 151 poems in the month and a half since my publisher dropped me.

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I finally got all the poems I’ve been writing and scattering to the winds of social media properly backed up and archived on my Deep Sky Anchor site. So, next up is an editing pass on my book Voyage of the Wanderlust, so it can go up for pre-order. Then illustrating another book!

It kinda feels like Taylor Swift’s song “Marjorie” is about the Fringe episode “One Night in October,” where memories of a woman named Marjorie are the only thing keeping a man from being a serial killer… and then the memories are removed, but the effect on him is still there.

The 16-year-old: “When things annoy me, I like to joke to myself that my suffering will make me a great artist. For instance, someday I could be famous for writing the hit single, “I Have to Make Myself Breakfast and It’s Not Fair.””