I have an acquaintance, a guy from my secondary school, who was a super fan of the group The Fall. I've never been able to get into them, to be honest. It's a group like Pere Ubu, with a hardcore following of fans for music that never made the main stream. However if you didn't... Continue Reading →
Promesse des Profondeurs
This is a climb we did back a while ago, eight years ago maybe. The name is the Promesse des Profondeurs at Castelvieil in the Calanques. My partner really, really wanted to climb it again, since we'd had some problems route finding the first time around. I really didn't want to do this climb again,... Continue Reading →
Neologisms
I've wanted some new words to describe things. ChatGPT is good for that, but I helped it along: 1 ) I need a word for the sort of weird hand waves people do in front of faucets with automatic sensors to get them to turn on: sink chi. For the automatic soap dispenser: clean chi.... Continue Reading →
Hope
How much of these weird feelings I've been having are about my own, personal situation and how much are about the state of world? I don't know that I was always exactly a hopeful person, but I think I've been a glass half full type. I've written about this before; it's not natural or easy.... Continue Reading →