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 find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media 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.
▰ It doesn’t seem that windy, but the Golden Gate Bridge is singing like nobody’s business
▰ Nothing like waking up to fog horns
▰ Books are a Ponzi scheme. Every time I finish reading one, I wanna read several more.
▰ One good thing about selling music gear is you don’t just get rid of the gear, you get rid of another box. And if you carry the package by foot to the post office, you feel even lighter after mailing it.
▰ Been in three group book clubs and one two-person book club this year, and there’s nothing like reading a book with other people — more dutiful, perhaps, but so much more insight, and I pay a different sort of attention.
▰ This week in #dronescrolling: Dunno if I’ll do this regularly or not, but it occurs to me I might, as part of the social media summary (slash digital life self-assessment) that I compile at the end of each week, post some mentions of solid things other people posted. Here are a few: Jeremy Wentworth regularly uploads short clips of his VCV Rack (i.e., modular synthesizer in software form) patches on his Mastodon account. The musician Dave Seidel, aka mysterybear, posted a janky yet photogenic jury-rigged stereo-mono adapter on Threads. Femi Shonuga-Fleming (aka Sadnoise) posted, on Instagram, a massive steel horn art object he made with Enid Corcoran. And these next are actually from a little earlier in the month, but Jeremy Bushnell published on Bluesky a bunch of photos of musicians performing at the recent Cleveland Re:Sound event, including Keith Fullerton Whitman and Maria Chávez.
