Mindless Carbonation: a selection of things that bubbled to the surface (blog).

02.19.25

I had just gotten off a client call that I heard maybe half of when I picked up the camera and started to load the next roll of film. My trip to Mammoth was drawing to a close but I wanted to have something in the camera in case inspiration struck.

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02.12.25

Saturday morning I packed an overnight bag and got ready to head to Chopperfest. I arrived at my parents' house trying not to look as frazzled as I felt. I spent a lot of the morning arguing in my head with people on the internet about the Current

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02.09.25

I surprised myself with the volume of the sigh I let out as the TV cut to the same Josh Allen thousand-yard stare I’ve seen year after year. In the lead-up to the game, my mantra was “they’re due to win one of these, Kansas City can’t keep this up forever..

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01.14.25

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told people ‘I need to get better at organizing’ in the last week. When my friend invited me to come along on a Mammoth trip sometime last month, I glanced at the calendar and said yes.

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01.12.25

I can see the shadows  cast on the driver’s face  by the ornaments hanging 

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01.10.25

I’ve heard it said many times before that your music taste crystalizes as you get older and stop listening to new things. I had previously been able to disregard this—I hadn’t stopped listening to new music yet—but now I think I need to confront the fact...

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12.31.24

I thought this might have been an ongoing series in the beginning of this blog but it turns out I’m not as good at multi-tasking as I thought I was. When I first launched the site, I thought I just had to get something out there...

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12.13.24

I watched Thelma and Louise at The Egyptian the other week. It was beautiful on the big screen. It feels wrong to idealize them given the context, but I couldn’t help but be drawn to the images of the characters’ lives in Arkansas. They immediately called to mind the work of an artist based in nearby...

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11.21.24

In August of 2019, I was laid off from the job that I’d been working for the previous four years. That job had only been picked up as a stop-gap on the way to the something better that I was sure was just around the corner when I was running through the last of my savings back in 2015. In retrospect...

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