I started a newsletter. Well and a business but we re talking about the newsletter now, OK? Because what the world needs now is a new newsletter like well you know how the song goes. It s called Now what? and it s for folks who try to tell computers to do things. When I try to paste [ ]
Been making a lot of stuff all over the place. Haven t really kept track of it here. Maybe I should. Don t want to feel like I have to or that the order matters too much. Been conjuring up in particular some long-standing ideas I never got around to or managed to figure out how to [ ]
Made one dream come true earlier this month at the record release party for Layers of Meta’s debut album, No One Does It Solo Only. High: Playing my songs with a crack band Low: Not enough time to properly sound check High: Support of friends and family Low: Not making sure Bob’s guitar and all [ ]
At long last we have a date for the record release party! Details still to follow but it’ll take place the evening of Friday, December 12, in Albany, CA (just north of Berkeley). We’re putting together a Layers of Meta band for the gig and figuring out how much of the record we can play [ ]
This Piper Morgan project continues to eat my mind and absorb much of my free-ranging enthusiasm and creative energy these days. A few fun things are that my amazing designer friend Mel Choyce took the not-too-uncanny but not great dolphin logo I d been using and after a wide ranging exploration refined it to this mark [ ]
I was surprised to see some younger-ish folks at the Dead show in Sunday. For me one of the highlights was having two functioning knees and being able to stand (and dance) all night. It was a lot of fun! Yes, at times somewhat labored,but many great moments especialy in set the second set. Set [ ]
I m always kind of happy when I find that the bots can t do something for me and I will need to find a real talented human to do it for me instead. I spent some time yesterday trying to evolve Piper s logo using MidJourney with many uncanny bad takes and even the bests of them [ ]
Back when Jerry Garcia was still alive, after I had moved to San Francisco and then later to Oakland, the abundance of Grateful Dead shows (not to mention Garcia Band and other related family events) made me complacent. I wouldn t even make plans before an upcoming run. More often than not someone would show up [ ]