Felt like doing a little rant about all of this bullshit.
TL;DR: If your politics support the erasure or dehumanization of another human being, whether they are brown, black, trans, queer, or whomever… you are on the wrong side of history, morality, and decency. There are...
Also test driving some new stuff out in the wild. #crucialtracks
Crucial Tracks merch launch!
I’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, sealed vinyl, and more available to purchase on our new merch site. All proceeds from this sale will go to help pay for site costs.
Since it’s Pride, 25% of those proceeds will go to The Trevor Project this month. And I will match the first $50 of that… 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
It happens every few generations. It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s. It caused the robber barons to murder union organizers and ultimately crash America into the Republican Great Depression in the early decades of the twentieth century. And it’s why wages have been stagnant while billionaires’ wealth has exploded in the years since the Reagan revolution.
Yup.
Announcing Crucial Tracks, a music journal to log and share the important songs in your life.
For the last four years I have been doing something I call a “music journal” or song-a-day playlist on Apple Music. The basic premise of the idea is to add one meaningful song to my playlist each day. It could be a song...
The birth of the Crucial Tracks app idea.
I’m quite possibly working on Crucial Tracks the app… a music journal that basically combines Crucial Tracks, blogging, and my song-a-day playlist project. You will be able to post one song per day with a little (or a...
It's time to get uncomfortable, folks. Doing the same things we have always done because they are the path of least resistance is not going to cut it anymore. The times of ignoring the bad for the little comfort benefits...
My pass at a recent music related blog challenge.
I was tagged for this challenge and you know I like to write about music, so here we go: What are five of your favorite albums? I currently have over 4,600 albums saved to my library, so this is going to be hard. There...
2025 is off to a great start. *sarcasm*
Geez this year is going to be hard, isn't it? It's only January and we have an openly Nazi billionaire (and richest person in the world) with major influence in our new government. Seriously? Fuck Elon and fuck Nazis....
I built a shortcut to share highlights from GoodLinks to Craft.
I’ve been exploring Craft more, now that I took advantage of their 50% off for life promotion. It's been fun discovering all the new features since I last used it, as well as how I can integrate apps like Things and...
Ugh, again... really?
As a parent of a trans son and two daughters (all teenagers), I’m obviously disappointed and saddened by the results from last night. Mainly because morality, decency, competency, and facts no longer matter. The U.S. is...
The cost of mass deportation.
I have been refraining from posting politics, but this new study is just absolutely insane. 🔗 Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy Any kind of mass deportation, like Trump and Vance are...
Loving the new version of Reeder.
The new version of Reeder is out and it is glorious. Reeder is by far the most used app on my phone. It’s been my go to RSS feed reeder since 2011 and I’m pretty sure it was one of the first apps I bought for my iPhone,...
Introducing the Crucial Tracks blog where we look at the songs that made you who you are today.
I am super excited to announce the launch of a newsletter project with my friend Chris (aka The Itinerant Printer). The site is called Crucial Tracks and it focuses on the songs that made you who you are today. Everyone...
The kids are certainly alright. I looked back to a recent trip to Toronto.
Yesterday I took two of our kids to Toronto to see the band Lovejoy at the Danforth Music Hall. Over the course of the morning, news was shared that folks were already lining up at 9am. We obviously couldn't make it that...
Team sides.
Some observations from today: I am so thankful my dad made the trip to share dinner with us. Our first holiday since my mom passed at the end of the summer. ❤️ Really thankful for the wife and kids. They are great all of...
I just completed a re-watch of Mr. Robot and it stands up (and still very relevant) 7 years later... it's probably one of my favorite TV series of all time. My favorite scene of the series is one of the last -- Elliott's...