At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ Paused the dystopian audiobook I was listening to so I could hear the audio cues from the self-checkout at the grocery store, and it’s like the dystopian audiobook never really stopped.
▰ Looking over this year’s Big Ears lineup (March 26–29, Knoxville, TN) and pondering the deep direct and indirect links to the old Knitting Factory
▰ This week in barbershop music: two of the five adult males present wore black Wu-Tang Clan T-shirts, and they didn’t know each other (I had to ask). Also, no music was playing.
▰ And … 10 weeks until the 750th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto music community project
▰ You wanna draw? You wanna talk art supplies? You wanna learn from someone who knows what the heck they’re talking about? My old friend Brian Biggs, the talented illustrator and storyteller, has started a YouTube series about his favorite pencils, pens, paper, and on and on. Geeking out at its finest. As the kids say, “like and subscribe.”
▰ Me: Hey, I got my email inbox down substantially this week.
Bandcamp: It’s Friday!
▰ Didn’t finish reading any books this week, but did make solid progress on Cees Nooteboom’s Rituals (1980) and Helen Phillips’ Hum (2024), among others.