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Despite making music for however many years, I've never released anything -- up until yesterday. Big thanks to Jay Caron and god.damn.chan for helping me separate the wheat from the chaff. Extra special thanks to chan for the mastering, art direction, graphic design, layout, photography, & video pro...

The title of this blog post comes from the chorus of the song "Yes It's Fucking Political" by Skunk Anansie. I referenced it in my first post on here, and it's a good reminder for me that my actions and choices don't happen in a vacuum but instead contribute to the character of our culture and socie...

Socrates was famous for saying that "the unexamined life is not worth living," but the nature of capitalism discourages self-reflection beyond what products one needs to buy to be happy. To counter that, I've made a habit of looking back on my life to evaluate choices, assumptions, outcomes, et cete...

This week I learned of the passing of Jake Millett, a fixture in the local Portland Maine music scene for over 20 years as a solo artist (DJing and producing, most recently as "Roach Dad") and also as a member of Altered Gee (with Bright Boy and Teal Child). I did not know him well outside of music,...

I started dabbling in C++ in the late 90's, writing my first "hello world" program in like 1997 out of some book I bought at Border's because it included a version of Code Warrior that ran on MacOS 7.5. I thought the program was hella corny at the time ("hello world"? please...) but as I got older,...