It tickles me that Xas Irkalla, the grimdark survival horror rpg I’ll be running in October, occupies a slot in Drafts on my home screen. 🎲
Voice-to-Drafts
I’ve added widgets to my phone’s home screen, but they’ve always felt they didn’t offer much and wasted real estate. But once I acknowledged how much I use Drafts, adding their widget was a no-brainer. I’ve got Drafts tweaked seamlessly to gather content I can later harvest. The only thing that remains a hurdle is using Siri to capture notes. The workaround of using the Reminders app to get notes into Drafts is acceptable, but it’s less than ideal.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Frigid Stars by Codeine and I See A Darkness by Bonnie “Prince” Billy. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://bonnieprincebilly.bandcamp.com/album/i-see-a-darkness
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Tableau by The Orielles and Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://theorielles.bandcamp.com/album/tableau
Finished reading: Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull 📚 I’ve been working on a webcomic for the last few months, and the research required for the project is more significant than I anticipated. It does mean, however, that I got to learn about the samurai women of Japan. The next book I read by Turnbull will be about the Mongolian Invasion of Japan.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Circulus Vitiosus by VTSS and Tomorrows Forgotten Relics self-titled album (thanks, James Curcio). 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Beowulf & Grendel is a low budget movie filmed in 2005. It is vastly superior to Beowulf, Zemeckis’s 2007 uncanny valley of a film.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Nashville Sound by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Dummy by Portishead. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
What I’ve gleaned from watching the first 30 minutes of Top Gun: Maverick is that my fellow Gen Xers are constantly told that they are relics and dinosaurs, doomed to obsolescence and irrelevance.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Sea Will Outlive Us All by Misha Panfilov and Hold the Girl by Rina Sawayama. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Tonight I walked downtown and updated my library card. Sadly, I don’t use the library as much as I did a decade ago. Before I left, I said hello to Stuntdouble. I need to catch up with that guy.
Dead tech.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to H by Aelk Minsur and Cottonwoodhill by Brainticket. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Killing time waiting for the bus.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Satanist by Behemoth and Hidden Waters: Strange And Sublime Sounds Of Rio de Janeiro. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Distance and Departure by All Structures Align and Pigments by Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Ithaca by Madeleine Cocolas and Dirt by Alice in Chains. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to 4EVER SOSSA by Sally Sossa and Unfamiliar Minds by Elena Setien (thanks, Steven Howard). 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Finished reading: Viking & Norse Mythology by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson 📚 When Charlie and I began work on VVSS, I arranged a meeting with Josh Heath to help us get an understanding of the Viking mind. Josh recommended this invaluable book.
Cranberry Peril
Massachusetts’ Cranberry Harvest Is in Peril Due to Northeast Drought 💬 Cranberry bogs are part of my youth. All through the year I’d walk past them on my way to visit my friends. In the winter they’d flood the bogs and we’d skate when they had frozen over. Whenever I’m' homesick, I drink cranberry juice. I never thought I’d have an emotional reaction to a headline about cranberries.
