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The Sound of Life

I had all these great ideas for what I wanted write this week, and then I got sidetracked by music.  Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday. EPMD. Zap Mama. Antibalas. Music is universal.  Even if genre isn’t. My heart beats with rhythm.  Take a moment and listen to your inner beat.  I’ll wait.  Let me mark […]

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Thousand

Everybody has a voice, some people have just refined theirs to a sharp point. Doctors, politicians, mommies, rock stars, construction workers, authors, friends, that kid at the bar talking about how steel I-beams don’t melt from burning jet fuel. Voices. Those with the loudest voices tend to become the most defined, even when they’re well-defined […]

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It's New to Me

It comforts me that the more things change, the more they stay the same.  It’s cold in the winter and I sneeze in the spring.  Everybody is either falling in love, trying to get out, or avoiding it.  Some politician has a crazy idea that just might work and a lot act crazy. You read […]

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They make it look so easy...

There’s an interesting phenomenon I’ve noticed that you probably have, too:  People that are really good at something make it look easy.  They make us think “Wow, that’s awesome. I could totally do that.”  Which is part of the allure and magnetism of masters.  And then we find out that things are rarely as easy as […]

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The Cultural Superhighway

So many people doing so many things.  Specialists, hyperspecialists, people who specialize in special specializations especially for you.  Curated and tailored to your tastes, your shoulders, and your color scheme.  There’s an audience for everything, and clients for everyone, as long as you can find them. There are specially trained audience-sniffing people and apps, too.  […]

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The Tire Showroom

Wigga wigga wigga goes the sound of the hydraulic drill, as my tire falls to the floor like a dress after a cocktail party. I can work from anywhere, and so I do. The work might be a client, a proposal, exercising literacy, or listening to Aphex Twin and getting schooled in what a bad […]

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Monday Melange

Coconut milk and coffee and pastry pockets filled with spinach and trap. That’s what color filter I’m running life through at the moment. I aspire to live an interesting life. There are dull spots, but even Big Bird has slow days. Life is a series of in-betweens, happening in-between interesting events. I wonder which one […]

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Fun Time

I love having fun.  All kinds of fun.  The giggly laughs as energy and life glow out of me, illuminating.  The intent kind, where the clock alternates between fast spins and slow twists.  The kind where the moment swallows me whole.  All the many kinds of fun that permeate externally, internally, and eternally.  Making up […]

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Why Bother: An Essay for the Future

Sometimes I wonder if I make a difference.  In the enormity of humanity, the vast ether of 5,000 years of civilization and the millennia to come, what ripples can I really send out?  In my quest to find my place in a world that will go on regardless of what I (or all of us […]

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Tesla Coil Music

Music made from Tesla Coils Dance of the Sugar Plum Faries: SMB! Zelda Theme: And here’s some tesla coil choreography! … I hope that was a fun use of ten minutes. 🙂

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