Ten Years Later – MonkeyBrain Comics
Ten years ago today, MonkeyBrain Comics launched. Maybe you’ve forgotten about it, never heard of it in the first place, or just didn’t realize the date. That’s all right. Ten years ago today, the thing that quite...
Ish
I wasn’t planning on posting this, must less right now when I have a bunch of stuff to get done right now and I’m all busy and argh and — anyway: Religion. Faith. All that jazz. Not something I...
One piece of clothing
I only have one piece of clothing I actually deeply and truly care about. I mean, I have lots of stuff I like that I wear, but it’s not the same. No this is something utterly different for me. In 1996 (maybe...
Pronouns
Last year I started wearing a very pretty pin on my con lanyards. It said “He/Him” and I wish I could remember the artist who did it, because it is pretty. I saw, I think it was a Google conference,...
Pavlov’s Idiot
Back in the dark ages of 2012/2013 the Pebble watch came out. I jumped on the idea quickly. I was, after all, the guy who had email on his phone back when that meant using a Sidekick and making sure it could load...
Do the work
So I got a tattoo today. It’s my 40th birthday, and so I decided to get myself something. Here it is, just after it was finished: Yup, it sits on my inside left arm, where I can see it constantly....
Get up. Water the mulch. Go inside. Work. Water the mulch.
Growing up in NY I never had a lawn or yard or anything like that. So when I moved to Portland and saw that the lawns at the house were basically only weeds, a few scraps of grass clinging on, I sighed. I wanted to...
Portland – polite garbage… wait…
After spending 38 years in NY (with tiny exceptions for a few years in Boston) I moved to Portland this past October. And already the changes have started. It’s… strange, but in no way unwelcome. The first...
This is how you get Pants.
Yesterday we had to go out, Laszlo and I, to do a bunch of errands. Along the way we ran across a Petsmart. So, hey, Watson needed a new cat tree thing to hang out on and in we went. At the door was a place...
NY-PDX: The rest
Welcome back! No, really, I feel kinda bad. I wanted to update about the trip west every night but we’d get in after 12+ hours in the car and I just couldn’t face it, somehow. But now we’re here and all and I...
NYC to PDX – start
The movers were supposed to show up at 9am. At 8am, when they arrived, I was still asleep. So, putting on pants at speed, we went over all the paperwork. That’s when I saw they tried to give me a total...
The Impossible House
Moving across country is pretty hard. There’s a buncha stuff you have to do by feel, asking friends and guessing. And then there’s buying a house. Buying a house is rough at the best of times. Trying to...
I’M LEAVING NEW YORK
On Monday, I’ll be 38. It was a while back that I realized shit needed to change. Part of that was me living in NY. I grew up here. I’ve lived here most of my life with tiny stints in other locations....