Author: DJ Billings
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Novemberish
Bookshelf The Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart Music Fleetwood Mac, and not just because of the skateboard guy. Tones and I, Dance Monkey Worriers Work & Projects Screen printing for The Gentle Pit Thinking about creating a screen printed zine Developing my first WordPress…
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Now is so… now
I’m going to be starting dinner soon, but I wanted to get something down here because I’ve been neglecting the blog lately. I’m making vegan burgers and fries. Not quite a gourmet meal, but we all love some comfort food. Anyone else could make it, and I can make lots of other things, but like…
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Octoberish
Bookshelf Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart Music All over the place, as usual. I’m mostly into Worriers and Elvis Costello at the moment. Work & Projects Screen printing for Whimsy & Row, Café Tropical, The Gentle Pit Creating a new website for a secret vegan project Studying I’m currently doing…
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50
Today I turned 50. Fifty years old. Half a century. Roman numeral L. They say that age is just a number and mathematically they are right. Aside: Over the next 50 years, I’d like to devote my life to finding who the people are behind the mysterious “they.” Okay, so not the whole 50, maybe…
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Smoke
cough. cough. cough. ahem. I am feeling super lazy, so for this post I decided to illustrate the sky above Los Angeles right now. It’s filled with smoke, even though the fires are miles away. It’s like living inside a campfire, except there are no marshmallows coming. The CDC says that being outside right now…
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Labor Day Los Angeles, 2020
A Haiku what do we watch now wrong week to stop drinking hey, let’s wash some masks
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What’s Better Than a Midlife Crisis Miata?
A few days ago, a friend posted a photo of a guitar amp that he just bought. In the caption he mentioned going through a midlife crisis, but at least it wasn’t a Miata. First I laughed, then I Googled “Midlife Crisis Miata” because I didn’t know that was a thing. Yup. It’s a thing.…
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Letting it go
You might already know this about me, but I like to run. I’ve always enjoyed it. Yeah, I’m one of those freaks. These days I run at a pace for distance, but in grade school, I loved to run fast. I loved sprinting short distances. I was wiry and thin and not very muscled, but…