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  • Never miss a word

    Never miss a word

    OK, I think I have the subscription widget working right, with a tucked-away version on both the main page and the page for each of these posts, just in case anyone wants to get an email notifying them when I’ve written something new here. No spam, promise!

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  • Waiting for the other shoe to drop

    Waiting for the other shoe to drop

    So it’s another day of doing my job while trying to understand what the plan is, what’s on pause, and what is going to happen next. The judge who stayed the deadline for forking ourselves heard arguments yesterday and then left the stay in place indefinitely (until he makes his decision). Meanwhile, inside the house…

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  • Warming up the tubes

    Warming up the tubes

    OK looks like the last post notified the Test list, not the Main list. Trying this Rube Goldberg thing another time.

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  • Breaker, one-nine

    Breaker, one-nine

    OK, so I managed to install a little subscription thingie down there above the footer (hidden till you pull it down because it’s kind of fugly in my no-sidebar design here currently), and it seems to work in getting people signed up (me in a test account as my smarter older brother Mycroft and friend…

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  • Calm before the storm

    Calm before the storm

    One nice thing about the temporary restraining order (TRO) handed down by a judge in Massachusetts last Thursday is that by extending the deadline to take the “go fork yourself” offer from the stooges doing the bidding of the Project 2025 playbook (while Elon and his muskrats continue to root through our national privates), they…

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  • amanaplanacana

    amanaplanacana

    I hope to release my record, No One Does It Solo Only, later this year, maybe a little sooner if I suddenly have a lot of unstructured time on my hands, and anyhow true to the title of the record, the process of releasing it will be a team effort just as the songwriting, arranging,…

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  • Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

    Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

    I was anticipating the new season of Severance since they started announcing it last fall and now life has gotten so crazed I am tending to catch the newest episodes days late instead of right when they drop. And then all of a sudden a show about a job where the people at the top…

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  • Oath takers and oath breakers

    Oath takers and oath breakers

    The whole concept of swearing an oath can feel antique, or worse cringe-y. Sad creepy quasi-militia guys exchanging rings with their daughters, that kind of thing. But I have worked for two governments now, and three administrations. When I was appointed to a role in the California government I swore an oath to defend the…

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  • For those who don’t have the spoons

    For those who don’t have the spoons

    We will all do what we need to do to keep our loved ones safe in times of tribulation. For now, I choose the spoon, for myself and for those who can’t.

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  • Reports of our death…

    Reports of our death…

    I appreciate all the folks who’ve reached out (including some of our partners at work) concerned by what they’ve been reading about our team and wanted to send a brief acknowledgement to the folks out there that we are still in here fighting the good fight:

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  • Technical difficulties

    Technical difficulties

    If I seem at all distracted it may be that my new boss’s old boss who is also possibly the actual boss of the country’s new boss is currently attacking the team I work for, and doxxing my colleagues. 18F’s account on Twitter was apparently deleted (actually a good thing, if you ask me) but,…

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  • What a lot of people forget about the 80s

    What a lot of people forget about the 80s

    For nearly a year there smack in the middle of that decade of excess nobody was permitted to mess with anybody’s toot-toot. Jello remembered, thirty years later…

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  • From the nation’s capital

    From the nation’s capital

    Just got back from DC and boy are my rights tired! I still need to catch up on my “fitness journey” as I think they call it nowadays. Thinking about how to illustrate a total knee replacement without gruesome medical Butthole Surfer type aesthetics. I’ll figure out something but the #longstoryshort is that I feel…

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  • I wonder why I wonder

    I wonder why I wonder

    We managed to squeeze in a second mixing session last month (January 13, 2025). I wasn’t able to get to Oakland for this session, so I “phoned it in” (well, zoomed it in, I guess) and that seemed to work out just fine. (Produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody. Recorded, engineered, and mixed by…

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  • It’s time to close

    It’s time to close

    Almost caught up now. We managed two mixing sessions last month (produced by David Gans and recording and mixing engineer Jeremy Goody at Goody Sound Studio). The first was on Saturday, January 4, 2025. Dirty Ol’ Sunshine We revisited the rough mix of “Dirty Ol’ Sunshine” which we last touched in June of 2023 (!),…

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  • Ain’t so sure that I could tell you when

    Ain’t so sure that I could tell you when

    We managed to schedule one more studio date last year, on December 6, to mix down tracks for No One Does It Solo Only. I had my knee replacement in November. Did I mention that? Maybe that’s worth a blog post too at some point, but anyhow it wasn’t really possible for me to get…

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  • The mixdown

    The mixdown

    Naturally, there is a learning curve to recording an album. Of course there are more than one way to do that as well, but the way I am doing mine has gone something like this so far: So anyhow, as noted above we started the preliminary mixing last November 13, getting two of the track…

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  • Into the belly of the beast

    Into the belly of the beast

    No real news today except that I have not yet fully digested the anger that consumed me this weekend, I burned four hours wasting my time at SFO because Everything is Shitty these days, and I’m headed to DC right now just as political things appear to be metastasizing. Posted from 30,000 feet or so.

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  • I surrender, I surrender!

    I surrender, I surrender!

    We got back into the studio (at last!) on October 21, 2024, as “Down to the Mountain” completed its evolution from string-band ditty to secular gospel roof-raiser. Down to the Mountain We met for a rare evening recording session at Goody Sound to get these harmony vocals added to “Down to the Mountain.” Lorna Kollmeyer,…

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  • Hacking time

    Hacking time

    As I’ve gotten older like everyone else I have noticed how time speeds up. Each new days is a smaller fraction of your life than the previous one. A summer that lasted a lifetime when you were nine passes in the blink of an eye when you are 50. But there is a positive side!…

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  • Dispatches from the edge

    Dispatches from the edge

    Microblogging never really found its way. Not like real protocols like email and such. Monopolizing status updates all in one place never made sense but it hung together chaordically for a long while between twtr and the nazi bar it became. Much like the yellow-pages style centralization that facebook rode to meta, this ultimately provided…

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