Just Another Crowd

Hi Crowd! Things have been a bit scattered recently, by design or just unfortunate timing it seems like one can barely digest the chaos of the day before being presented with the next wave of complications. This manifests in many ways, doom scrolling and retreating into known comfort zones among them. I don't know that I have either a solution or a useful processing method, though certainly find myself hunting for one almost daily. My list of things I want to write to you about continues to g...

If you follow me on any number of various world wide web portals you know I turned 50 yesterday. The truth is 49 always felt like a desperate, forced age. Like "look, I'm not 50 yet!!!" so for most of the last year if someone asked how old I was I just said 50, so I sort of let the air out of that tire a while ago so to speak. But in case you had any question there's no questioning it now, I'm officially old. And don't anyone older than me reply back with some youngster comment, you are old t...

Hi Crowd! [Insert obligatory "I haven't written to you since last year" joke followed by copious laughter] The most persistent new years eve memory I have pegs back to perhaps '94 in Gainesville, we'd all just gotten home from some new years eve show happening at the Hardback with which bands I've forgotten but certainly loved with all my heart at the time, and when I say home I mean the shitty 8 unit breezeway apartment complex I lived in at the time of which 6 of the 8 apartments were occup...

Hi Crowd!So before we get into it, some good news this week: The ICC finally issued arrest warrants for some war criminals. That took too long, but it's in motion now and that's great. Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination for AG because of too much attention into alleged "sexual misconduct" and payments to underaged girls. Quietly laughing about the people who told me over the last week that this was all unfounded smear campaign lies. Gary Gensler announced that he will resign in January. Baby ...

Hi Crowd! I've been using AirBnB since forever. Like, almost 20 years now. Especially for cities I go to frequently with neighborhoods I like, it's often a better experience than a hotel halfway across town at twice the price. It hasn't always been perfect, there's been waves of weirdness like shady business owners renting out 300 apartments and hiring 2 people to pretend to be 50 different hosts. I rented a place in Tokyo one time and traded messages back and forth with the host for weeks wh...

Hi Crowd!A little more than a year ago I wrote about the end of social media. I think a lot of what I wrote there holds true and is more obvious from this perspective, especially if you consider the trajectory X/witter is on. Regardless of how you personally feel about Musk or any of his choices (like removing block functions and unbanning abusers) the fact that he's moved from apolitical to heavily pushing one side, and will have a role with the incoming government, it's fair to consider thi...