At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ Not only are there, per capita, a seemingly inordinate number of jazz clubs in San Francisco, but one of them serves Chinese food and another serves Ethiopian, two* of my favorites. Plan is to hit both those this week — both for quartets led by bassists.
*Mr. Tipple’s and Sheba, respectively
▰ One of my favorite things on the internet lately has been the Tumblr of Australian musician JG Thirlwell (aka Foetus), who lives in NYC, and maintains a highly active feed of snippets of the numerous concerts (among other cultural events) he attends. (Also fond of the fact that Tumblr lets you subscribe to feeds via RSS.)
▰ My tiny home office became a storage area as I tended to work by the day at the dining room table, and so finally I cleaned up the office, and marveled at how perfect it was with the monitor and dedicated surface area … and then two days later I worked at the even smaller kitchen nook table.
▰ Hello from San Francisco, where the weather is consistent enough to suggest we’re living in a simulacrum.
▰ The door to the kitchen occasionally rattles for no apparent reason, and sometimes it rattles because of an earthquake, and when it rattled just now for six or so seconds straight, it was pretty clearly the latter. (8:30am Thursday, August 13, 2026)
▰ That feeling when you open the homepage of a webcomic you like a lot, the one with what it describes as “irregular updates,” just to see, again, if maybe it’s been updated, knowing it’ll probably never again be updated but the page provides no assurances one way or the other.
