And who’s that? Just a guy with no credentials, no real accomplishments, and one of the world’s least-read websites.
Widowed. Unreligious. Further left than anyone you know.
What’s the website about? Attempted honesty. Life is complicated and difficult, and this is me trying to describe the human condition (mine, at least) accurately, without pretense or gussying up.
Expect occasional blasphemy and political dissent, use of naughty language and illegal substances, and references to pee and poop and boobies and boners. If you’re easily offended, click elsewhere.
Recurring themes include…
• Anything goes — an open conversation among weirdos, and you’re invited. Speak your mind, tell a story, sing a song, whatever.
• Cheap Seattle — having a good time in my home town, without going bankrupt. Affordable diners, free museums, very short walks…
• Links & News is exactly that — whatever amusements I’ve found while wandering the web, and the latest news plus my brilliant opinions.
• Neverending Film Festival — older, weirder, forgotten, subversive, or homemade movies. Superheroes usually aren’t involved.
• Pathetic Life was my diary/zine in the 1990s. Nowadays, when I’m too lazy to write something fresh, that old stuff gets rerun.
• Transit Takes — public transit around Seattle, sharing rides with the bums and drunks and other idiots like me.
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Despite ending in .com, this is a non-commercial venture — a hobby, not a business or brand. Nothing’s for sale, and you will not be asked to turn off your adblocker, because there will never be ads.
No personal information is collected, no records are kept. No affiliate links, no age verification, no app, no captchas to “verify that you are human,” no “premium posts” behind a paywall, no registration, no SEO, no terms of service, no trackers, no VPN-interceptor, and you don’t have to fill out a form to say “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.”
And no damned AI is used in creating this site.
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Some of the website’s art, including the guy at the top of this page, was created by Jeffrey Meyer. His talent is obvious, awesome, and excellent, and if you have a million-dollar commission for hire, Mr Meyer has my highest recommendation.
If you’d like something removed for legal or personal reasons, send a human-style email and I’ll probably do it ASAP. If your lawyer sends a sternly-worded letter, I’ll ignore it or make fun of it.
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My ancestors built America atop the corpses of about 13,000,000 slaughtered people. For what little it’s worth, my apologies to the Atakapa, Caddo, Chitimacha, Chochenyo, Choctaw, Chumash, Ho-Chunk, Hopewell, Houma, Kansa, Karkin, Kickapoo, Meskwaki, Mississippi, Missouri, Muckleshoot, Muwekma, Natchez, Nisqually, Ohlone, Osage, Otos, Paiute, Potawatomi, Puyallup, Ramaytush, Sauk, Suquamish, Tataviam, Tubatulabal, Tulalip, Tunica, Wyandotte, Yokuts, and especially to the Duwamish people, on whose land I’ve spent most of my life, an uninvited intruder.
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If you have further questions, click the FAQ, or send an email and I’ll answer, unless you’re an idiot.