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I AM ASYNCHRONOUS LIFESTYLE 0006

Art Credit: A Perfect Poem (2011)
Brian Kershisnik (American, living)
oil on canvas on canvas
24 x 20 in

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I AM ASYNCHRONOUS LIFESTYLE 0007

Art Credit: Jove decadent (1899)
Ramon Casas i Carbó (Catalan, 1866-1932)
oli sobre tela
6,5 (Alçada) × 56 (Amplada) cm

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My wife jokingly asked my kids to figure out what I should be for Halloween, and my daughter quickly came up with this concept and then actualized it. So I wore it while I lurked out in the street behind my kids during their trick-or-treating.

(This would be the first time I had a Halloween costume of any sort in decades, other than the one time I went to work dressed roughly like Lionel Richie on the cover of his first album, and didn’t tell anyone, and no one ever knew. Might do that again sometime; I’d need some new white pants.)

Standalone post link: ''happyapple''

It’s an intended project of this website, but currently I’m not sure to what extent I want to re-share old photos and posts from prior websites, social media accounts I don’t use anymore, or just random things from my photo library or ideas and happenings noted down that I never got around to sharing in the first place. And if I do share them, should I have a system or chronology to the sharing, or just rely on randomness and serendipity? Re-post them now as fresh posts, or backdate them to when they occurred?

In the meantime, here are three photos I took of rocks and desert in October 2007 in Emery County, Utah. I was somewhere north of the Wedge Overlook and Buckhorn Wash, not quite yet understanding the scope of the country I was about to drive into. They are some of the oldest digital photos I still have, I think. Posting these as a test to see what it feels like to randomly post really old stuff.

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(nightbookshelf)

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I filled up another ‘Field Notes’ notebook. I’m obsessed with these, and I already have too many, but I justify it because I do really like to write in them, I think I write more because of them. And now I even draw silly stuff in them sometimes. I’m sure I’ll use them all eventually.

Next up is this plain blue notebook, with turquoise and green ink pens. This is the first non-National Parks Series notebook I’ll be filling.

Standalone post link: Filling Up Space

I ended my cooking drought by making some potato-broccoli-cheese soup this afternoon, and now I’m ending my daily posting drought by sharing it here.

I’ve tried several different methods for this kind of soup and I finally have settled on this recipe as the best for what I want. I just add a bunch of broccoli and carrots to it, which is really the only change. And sometimes I mash one side of the pot with a potato masher. And I use more cheese than it says to.

I guess actually if I was in the recipe blogging scene those additions would constitute enough variations to write it up here as my own recipe. With pictures like this, I’m leaning hard into this being an anti-recipe blog, though. You’ll just have to trust me that it tastes good; my wife and daughter can vouch for that, too. Not my son, though; he ate oatmeal for dinner instead.

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Photograph taken on June 13, 2009, somewhere off the South Fork Road in Provo Canyon.

I guess I’m going to at least occasionally continue with the totally random old photos. Probably should get a good series/source name for them.

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This site now aims to be the contemporary equivalent of enigmatic handmade publications hoarded in a drawer.

Standalone post link: On Some Emily Dickinson Shit (Fascicles in a Drawer 2022)

Transcription, but with some misspellings corrected: (not ‘moomlight’ because I like that too much)

‘Friday, November 19, 2021
5:10 am at my desk
in the cloud-obscured
moomlight (and
maybe earth-shadow
obscured moonlight of
the eclipse still, but
I can’t tell.) And I
can’t really see what
I am writing now
so this is an
experiment.

‘I can’t fall back
asleep and I can’t
really see the eclipse
so I figured I would
try this.

‘I just took some
pictures / video
that I hope are
eerie but either
way I think I will
like them.’

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