Now:

A page that updates periodically about what I’m up to and into right now. You are viewing the version of this page from April 28, 2026.

Making

I got a piece of art out the door for the first time in nearly a full year. I think it is fun but not my most polished work, and that's okay. Sometimes you gotta kick one out of the nest before you think it's the best thing you've ever made so you can move on to a new idea. And now to have a new idea.

Work has been consistent but I'm in a drought of announcement dates right now, so nothing to show for any of it yet.

Doing

Several months ago Laur and I and two friends got tickets to see Florence & The Machine in Philly on the 25th at the Comcast Center or whatever their big arena is. Then five days before the show we were informed that they actually needed the arena for hockey that night so they were moving the show another hour east to a smaller venue in Atlantic City. Luckily we were able to (read: our friend Kayla was able to because she is goated at navigating Ticketmaster) score new tix and still go to the show. It was really good!

So we split the weekend between hanging out with Lauren's brother in Philly and hanging out with pur buds in Jersey and travelling across the state by train-slash-car. We attempted to go to the Rainforest Cafe but the wait was multiple hours—the entire boardwalk district being overrun with Florenceheads and their parents/partners—so instead we got dinner at Caesar's Palace. I don't think my life is that weird or interesting but it does sometimes serve up a truly surreal moment that I try and savor. Eating frozen pizza to live harp music in a fake Roman plaza packed with women in flower crowns is a good example. The world is just so strange that you can move through it in a fairly straight line and still pass through funny little knots now and then.

Lauren and I have decided to go in on an unlimited membership to our favorite local theater, so we are fully In Our Movie Mindset Making Movie Moves, as we love to say to each other when on the way to a film. Caught In The Mood for Love right before we skipped town and My Cousin Vinny yesterday, and then tonight it's Whisper of the Heart.

Thinking

I had a conversation on the road with Lauren about this but I have really been up against the outer edge of that universal human gnawing emptiness lately. I'm no longer urgently broke, I have a regular-ish job, I'm doing my little projects, and really by all measurable aspects my life is way better now than it was even a year ago. Yet some kind of vacuole persists in my mind holding me back from fulfillment. Is anybody else noticing this, or know what to do about it?

Reading

I bailed on The Terror, which had me barely clinging on through the boredom for a lot of it and then out of nowhere contained a dozens-of-pages-long flashback about a British guy getting horny in a pond before he signed up to go to the North Pole. I was steeling myself to hang on even more barely when a line about the extreme redness of the protagonist's penis laid on the last straw.

Now I'm reading Heart of the Comet by David Brin, which I would currently rate as “decent” for some generic 80s science fiction. It is funny how much of the plot springs from the explicitly-sexy computer-genius girlboss character shunning the advances of Cool Space Hero Guy to instead have sex with a bald old guy who knows a lot of science.

Listening

I spent a lot of time in the car with my girlfriend the last few days so mostly I have been listening to the new Noah Kahan album. The flannel-and-jeans flavor of it is not really for me but he does do a great job capturing what it's like to be from a dinky town that you love nostalgically but hate intelectually.

As I write this update I am listening to this Egyptian electro record that I let sit on my queue for way too long. It shreds.