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…those who control digital platforms and means of communication have a considerable ability to affect the collective imagination and to present a particular vision of reality as desirable. Such power should be constantly guided by the pursuit of truth and respect for human dignity, so that the culture fostered on the internet does not become an instrument of excessive distraction, homogenization or dominance, but rather a setting in which inner freedom and critical thought can mature.

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Today in the water phrases from some of the songs kept coming to me.

The waves were fine. Unextraordinary.

Still would not trade this random Tuesday with most other days.

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Sydney Sweeney was giantized in the show Euphoria and it hit my transom and so I updated my Giant Women page.

I am too old to watch the show Euphoria.

I won’t think too hard about the psychological reasons for my interest in giant sized women, but I will quote myself from twitter from 2013:

Male gaze is the native gaze of my people. Sorry.

Moving right along, and with great dispatch, along with the new MacBook Pro I bought (actually, it’s a used, 2021 model) from the excellent local computer place DC Computer Warehouse, I moved a passel of files out of Dropbox last weekend.

Dropbox noticed. I got an email the other day which read:

“Joe, you have storage space available (!!!)”

I am reminded of the great Dennis Wilen‘s Voidmstr’s Law:

“Bandwidth expands to fit the waste available.”

It’s nice to move things around and optimize things.

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Fun to track my small improvements bodysurfing using @dawnpatrol.app and @surfline — I use @procreate Dreams to add an overlay.

Also on Instagram

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A solid week I had.

Financially I got to pay some things down which have been vexingly unmoving for quite some time.

I scheduled a new instance of FrESH.

I added the John Cale song Barracuda to my 2026 playlist.

Dark woman in the water drowning
Sinking in a funny way
Black footing for a face exploding
Mimicking our final days
The ocean will have us all
The ocean will have us all

I don’t know quite what to make of that song but I like it.

And I bought a new laptop. My old one a broken “n” key. It has audio issues. The bottom of the case is loose so it’s in danger of shearing clean off.

It’s good to make progress.

I’ll keep taking things a day at a time.

I added a new header at the beginning of the month.

It’s my late mother’s birthday. She remains missed. Each passing year brings my age closer to hers when she died. Her birthday being close to Mother’s Day always seemed fun when she was alive. Now it sort of amplifies her absence.

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We washed Gwen Saturday. She was delighted.

We watched Groundhog Day and it was–as always–excellent. Again.

My art piece Galletas de Mar pero no comer sold Sunday. (Previously)

My name is Art.

On impulse, today I bought joespartydepot.com. It felt great.

My name is Joe.

I said to Kelly today “it’s nice to have a run of good stuff happen. New job. Refund on my income taxes. It’s been a run of good events.”

She said “you were due.”

Mind you, nobody is owed anything by the universe.

Badness can be pretty unrelenting.

But if something good was going to happen, it was due to happen for me.

And so, onward.

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My parents contextualized difficult times as “an adventure.”

Moving day was an adventure. Broken down car while on a family trip? Adventure. Sunburn during the summer? Adventure.

I think it’s a valid way to think about the world.

Life is an adventure. Human beings like me, and you, are subject to mortality, death, pain at every minute. People–young and old–have heart attacks and strokes every day. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. This is not fun to think about. The truth of it has the capacity to stop people from moving forward. It can freeze us to inaction. But it’s good to sally forth. We must live our lives.

I find the framing of “adventure” useful to me. Dropping off a postcard at the post office could be every bit as dramatic as Frodo and Sam’s trip to destroy The One Ring. It’s certainly more real than those fictional Hobbits.

Recently: Virginia Hats were unexpected interactions with out-of-towners. I met Pelican in the water. And there have been other Airport Adventures.

These might be just weird happenstance, but somehow that “adventure” framing makes it feel more dramatic.

I’m not sure what this adds up to, but I’m content with the worldview that I inherited from my parents.

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What on earth do I mean by that? I mean, I use that word: “productive”–it sounds like I worked. But I didn’t.

It was a “good” weekend. But that doesn’t sound like anything.

The adjective is useless. Good writing communicates better than platitudinal words.

I did things! We went on the San Diego Book Crawl. We visited great bookstores. I got books on sea creatures, typography, a short comic. I bought a hair clip for my sweetie which has the Eye of Sauron on it.

I sent thank you notes.

I added various paper items to my notebook/scrapbook. I did some drawing. I did some brainstorming.

I did laundry.

I went through excess things and piled them together with the intent to drop off at a charity shop (Goodwill Industries).

I made bone broth! All the chicken bones and such from the last 3 months boiled down to stuff we can make soup and cook with.

I went to the beach. The waves were chaotic but there were a few good rides.

I saw some of the Ocean Beach parrots flying around crazily and squawking at 7 in the morning.

I delivered my art piece to the OCEAN/BEACH show for May at Subterranean Coffee.

Oh, and there were a few dog walks.

“Good” is an inadequate word to encompass the above. “Productive” is also inadequate.

But there are photos. And links. Thanks for reading.

Links:

• San Diego Book Crawl
• Libélula Books & Co
• Verbatim Books
• Hey! Books
• Now or Never Comics
• Mysterious Galaxy Books
• Subterranean Coffee
• Art Hang San Diego
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