poems! new! mine! posted! now! what! etc. / "from Fair bodies of unseen prose,"
https://publicreverie.com/from-fair-bodies-of-unseen-prose/

@ben That's a good gift! My mum used to play guitar when she was younger, but just classical. I'd be a little shocked if either of my parents knew what a guitar pedal was.

(My brother played for a while, and sold me his old Squier Tele 15 or 20 years ago, and I promised him if he ever wanted it back, he could just pay me the $70 I paid him).

@BackFromTheDud Yeah, I imagine it'd be great on bass (I've never really tried playing bass before!).

new from above/ground press: Certain Forces, by N.W. Lea
https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-from-aboveground-press-certain.html

I still don't know the difference between the 50000 varieties they already sell (Russian, USA, regular, nano, tone wicker, op amp...), I just know this was one of my first pedals when I was first getting into electric guitar in the 00s and it rips.

Great to see that Electro-Harmonix is releasing a new version of the Big Muff, that section of the pedal market had been underserved for too long.

I see we're at the "shovelling three times a day" phase of winter :/

new from above/ground press: [OKAY], by Buck Downs
https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-from-aboveground-press-okay-by-buck.html

Reading a certain subreddit I have an active interest in (to dance around it lightly), and I'm appalled at the absolute defeatist loser bullshit in there.

A rare picture of the old man not sleeping. Usually he hates having his picture taken, will look away, get up, etc.

My old colleague sleeping while I work.

Man says to doctor: Doctor, I'm depressed. I should be on top of the world – I just had the greatest triumph of my life, but I just feel hollow. I can't even tell anyone about it.

Doctor: I know what you need. The great clown Fortunato is in town for carnival. Go and see him. He's incredible. I don't know what we'll do when one day he passes on. On that day there will be nothing left for any of us.

Montresor: But doctor,

ive new poems up at gone lawn, by the by;
https://gonelawn.net/journal/issue62/mclennan.php

@lumecolca I had a period in my life where I got, used, discarded a new email around once a year? It was easy. I hate that everything is tied to them, now.

@lumecolca I use gmail because, well, gotta have an email somewhere, and I'm not sure I trust eg protonmail to stick around forever. The situation really sucks because emails should be kinda fluid, but they're now treated as the primary identifier in a lot of places, which causes all kinds of problems.

Anyway, a big fuck you to my alma mater, thanks for the early Christmas present.

I use a password manager and it really helps list everything so I can go in one by one and do the updates. It's amazing. But it's also sort of terrifying? I've updated the CRA, my financial advisor, I have to go into the bank and show ID on Saturday. There are so many places to change.

If you haven't had to update every single account in your online life, let me just say: don't

When I went to university, one of the heavily emphasized benefits was that alumni could keep their email for life. I got my email address in 99, and it's been my main email since I graduated in 03.

Anyway, yesterday the university sent out an email that they're removing this benefit in February, so

The fun thing about having to change your primary email address is seeing how every site implements it differently: confirm-at-old, confirm-at-new, heads up email with no confirmation (hi, Bandcamp!), and then the classic, "our system sucks, you have to call and a person has to do it for you."