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A page that updates periodically about what I’m up to and into right now. You are viewing the version of this page from July 14, 2026.

Making

I have a few gigs in the pipeline at various stages. One larger thing is getting close to wrapped, a couple smaller things are chugging along.

The thing I was working on for the last few months was the board game edition of Game Changer, which was—and I know you have to say this about every project, but I’m being earnest—a lot of fun to work with some very nice and talented people on. The Kickstarter wrapped a while ago but I think it may eventually be available at the regular store. And my name's in the manual, which is neat.

Doing

It's been another month since I updated this page, and a bunch more stuff has happened. End of June was pretty relaxed, just went to work and the movies mostly. First weekend in July Lauren’s family was in Pittsburgh to see that guy Noah Kahan at the ballpark. The feels-like was about 115 at 5PM but everybody had a nice time. Noah Kahan gets a lot of attention on this webpage especially relative to how often I am actually thinking about him, for some reason.

Had a nice afternoon in the city and got to deploy one of my special Boyfriend Abilities (being in the bottom 1% of the crowd in terms of fandom so I can go hit the merch table mid-set when the line is gone). When we left PNC Park at about 11 PM there was a rickshaw coasting by the gate playing “Mermaid” by Alan Hawkshaw so that was cool for me.

As usual we’ve been seeing a lot of movies thanks to our unlimited Row House membership. It’s currently “Dad Action Week” so our last couple shows were The Fugitive (great!) and Speed (pretty silly but engaging!). Our next couple are Blade and Striking Distance, which I know nothing about but was shot in Pittsburgh. Going to the movies rocks, especially when it’s free.

Thinking

Currently in the process of taking a step towards becoming a real person and getting on some meds so I can do things. Yesterday I had to not eat all morning so I could go get my blood drawn at the strip mall so they could fax my therapist some numbers so I can find out if I qualify for Adderall. Filling out a self-evaluation form that is basically asking “How annoying are you to be around?” from ten angles, and then handing the second page to my partner so she can also indicate how annoying I am. Wondering if booking my followup appointment promptly and correctly counts against my case.

Lately I have been pretty deep in the pit of my belief that I’m missing some key component of personhood. Like I see a guy at the store who is a total stranger to me but exudes that intangible has-it-together energy and I wonder how they do it. Even though they must have all kinds of problems! But any time I zoom out and observe my own behavior I can see the levers tilting and I feel like some kind of bacteria or slime mold that has grown in the shape of a human without actually grasping the fundamentals. And I’m able to accept that those fundamentals can be learned but it doesn’t feel good at all to be dysfunctional and broke and basically starting from scratch and be creeping up on 30 years old.

Reading

Hummingbird Salamander was alright. Then for a while I was reading Etidorhpa, which bizarre book from the 1890s about a guy exploring the hollow earth. That one was kind of interesting but so much of it was a huge slog untethered to the plot.

Right now I'm in the middle of Food of the Gods, a book from the 90s about how psychedelic plant compounds may have been a critical part of the earliest human cultures and religions, and also about how we need to return to a psychedelically-enforced culture of oneness and reciprocity if we want to save the planet. I am liking it a regular amount; there are plenty of interesting points backed up by real evidence but there are also a lot of tangents where this guy just confidently asserts stuff like “The cultivation of hemp for both practical and drug use is the source of all rope- and string-based metaphors in English.” It's going down a lot faster than Etidorhpa, at least.

Listening

I'm fully on the new-stuff grind, so very few things are getting a repeat listen lately, but here are a few things I’ve really liked:

This tropical new-age CD I got for a dollar and hit the absolute jackpot. Ideal album-thrifting outcome.

High Cube by Foote/Dickow is a lovely texture-y ambient record I found out about in the Joe Gleason Discord.

Yaygara by Sosyete '25 is a sick Khruangbin or Yin Yin-like album my buddy recommended. Great hot-weather music.