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A lot’s happened since the last time I checked in. Career Opportunities I finally landed a job. Well, I landed 3, but they were all seasonal part-time, and two of which were at stadiums, so they were rarely consistent and my hours would have been low. So I quit those two to focus on the one that gave me the most hours. I won’t go into it too much, but it’s at a museum, and the culture has been…
Hello. We survived 2025. We can do 2026 too. ANW 8 I started my year on December 31st, getting on a train and heading up to Seattle for Anthro Northwest 8. Like Furlandia, I volunteered to work the con, and worked five three-hour shifts over four days, mostly in registration, though I got pulled into a few other places, which was kind of fun. I hope the con staff sees me as flexible and reliable…
Fall 2025 It's finally happening. After a summer that's been too hot in the PNW, autumn is finally here. I'm sitting in one of my favorite coffee shops, listening to Johnny Cash singing "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and somehow it's surprisingly beautiful. And just now the vocal accompaniment came in: Fiona Apple. Which is just so good. I saw this album in an antiques store here yesterday, a CD…
I did not intend to go for so long without posting. A lot of it has been dealing with the changes of living in a new place. A lot of it has been trying and failing to find a new job. A lot of it has been dealing with this fuck-ass country’s changes. I’m fucking tired. But moving back to the Pacific Northwest has been nice. St. Louis will always be in my blood, but the PNW feels like home. The fact…
Hey, what the fuck, how're you? A lot has happened in the last two months. After the 2024 US General Election, my partner and I decided we didn't want to be in a red state anymore, especially seeing what was coming down the state legislative pipeline, pulled up stakes, and drove 3000 miles through the Southwest back to the Pacific North West. It's a little daunting. I'll eventually have to find a…
In a few weeks I'll be heading up to Chicago for Midwest Fur Fest and I'm really, really nervous about it. It's not my first furry con, but just barely. Earlier this year I went to my hometown con for the first time, Gateway Fur Meet. It's small, and I don't really know anyone in the community, and I went on a Sunday, because that's the only day I could go. I didn't know anyone, and there wasn't…
I haven't said much since the end of Cohost. I've not been entirely pleased with the Internet. I eased back into Tumblr, but it's not the same. I opened a Bluesky account, and it's definitely not the same. I'm still mourning its loss. And since the 2024 General Election, I haven't been back on Tumblr. I had stopped going to Tumblr in August because there was so many people trying to convince…
I loaded up Cohost this morning to catch up the final posts of users on the website, and found people saying where everyone could find them, and goodbye in their own way. The ones that got me the most were the people saying goodnight to Cohost, or its mascot, Eggbug. (post via Internet Janitor ) I had been on Cohost since the November 2022 Twitter exodus. One of the first things that struck me…
I realized the other day how the ability to live a Bohemian lifestyle in the US just isn't possible anymore. Rent is too high, pay is too low, everything is expensive now. You can't just work a part time job and make art. Sometimes you can't even make art, if you're working your two jobs just to make rent. Adam Horovitz, in the Beastie Boys Book, talks about a concert date in Kansas City, and…
Like any other suburban kid who grew up in the 1990s, I played a lot of video games instead of going outside. So I have a lot of nostalgia about them. But a lot of that nostalgia isn't about the games themselves, but about everything else around games. Here's things that stand out: The 16-Bit Wars. Team Sega all the way! In fact, I would say Sega was the first time I experienced any sort of…