Author: DJ Billings
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Fractured
You’ve probably stubbed your toe a few times in your life, amiright? Sure you have. Sadly, you will likely never get to the championship-level toe stubbing that I have attained. You need to practice every day. Most people don’t have that kind of drive. I don’t mean to be dismissive, but I am just extremely…
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April
Reading is Fundamental Walking on Custard & the Meaning of Life, Neil Hughes Professional WordPress Design & Development, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern Big Sur, Jack Keroac Work & Projects & Stuff It’s Spring, and that means Spring cleaning. The screen print studio needs a thorough overhaul. Too many old boxes and useless junk…
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Easing Off the Pressure
I made two promises to myself in the last couple of years that I have been failing to keep. The first was that I would only write blog posts or newsletters when I really felt like I had something to say. The second was that I would publish on a regular schedule. Maybe you can…
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March
I Can Read! Walking on Custard & the Meaning of Life, Neil Hughes Professional WordPress Design & Development, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern The Joy of PHP, Alan Forbes Work & Projects & Stuff I’m sanding another wooden table rescued from the alley. It’s amazing the perfectly good stuff people throw out. Creating a…
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Febrewaryish
I Can Read! Walking on Custard & the Meaning of Life, Neil Hughes Ask the Dust, John Fante Death With Interruptions, José Saramago Stuff From Last Month I Didn’t Do I abandoned my trumpet-playing reboot. Don’t look at me right now. German. You know it’s bad when Duolingo stops reminding you. Work & Projects &…
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I thought I wanted a job. I was wrong.
This past November, I celebrated thirteen years of being self-employed. Thirteen seems like a weird number to celebrate, but I actually celebrate every year. And when I say celebrate, what I mean is that I freak out on a semi-monthly basis over the state of my finances and wonder why the hell I don’t have…
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Januaryish
What I’m Reading Rose Madder, Stephen King Ask the Dust, John Fante The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain De Botton No One Understands You And What To Do About It, Heidi Grant Halvorson Music I’m looking for some good jazz. Improvisational jazz. Suggestions? Work & Projects & Stuff Zines! Zines! Zines! I’m making zines!…
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How the Bullet Journal Saved My Brain
Note: This is a re-blog from my other site. Used with permission because, well, I wrote it. I said it was cool. I have a long and weird history with analog organizational products. Starting around age seven, I developed a mild folder fetish, spurred along by gloriously shiny document holders with The Muppets on them.…
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Decemberish
Bookshelf The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain De Botton No One Understands You And What To Do About It, Heidi Grant Halvorson The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart Music Van Halen, 1984 Tones and I, The Kids Are Coming Work & Projects & Stuff Working on a screen printed zine…
