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

04.18.26

I put on Headache’s Thank You for Almost Everything on my way over to the art show at the abandoned Sizzler on Wilshire.

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04.15.26

According to Spotify, I started the playlist “Chillwave +++” in June 2017. Over the next five years, I would build it out into just shy of 54 hours of music. It was untenable; something had to change. Early in my account, I set up a couple of playlists organized by genre, as I had before […]

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04.09.26

For most of the Saturday morning, I’d been Monitoring the Situation. The Odd Lots Discord had been unusually busy since the start of the war a week ago, and I was glued to the screen.

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04.03.26

I fumbled with my phone at a red light, awkwardly trying to slide the brick around so I could enter the URL with one hand while my other was still on the steering wheel.

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04.01.26

Things I cooked and photographed in March 2026.

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03.06.26

Keeping up with cooking, February 2026.

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07.19.25

When I was young, one of the ultimate forms of waiting-for-adult-to-finish-errands amusement was sticking my arm in the blood pressure cuff outside of the pharmacy at PayLess

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03.01.25

lasted almost exactly one year doing my monthly food photo reviews before I missed one. To be honest it lasted a lot longer than I would have guessed from the beginning. 

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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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