Thinking once again about Finnegan Shannon’s perfect art benches.
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Month: March 2026
Just add DJ
During this whole pandemic I have been pondering how to have satisfying social events that are not centered around food and drinks, which was my usual in the before times.
New experiment today was having a friend do a masked dj set in the kitchen during a craft party. 10/10 recommend craft rave.
Secret police
I know police departments rarely release names of police, even when they get fired for misconduct. But then sometimes I wonder whether the names were available and just left out of news stories?
Like this is an article about a court finding that RCMP violated people’s rights. No RCMP are named, but several protestors and the judge are fully identified.
The baseline level of secrecy around police makes it confusing as a reader, for me at least. Does this mean the court didn’t know any names either, or that the finding was about “the RCMP” as a group, or just that the journalist left out the names?
One time at a club, a friend apologized for showing up late.
Late friend: “Sorry, I dropped a full coffee pot and had to clean up”
Journalist friend: “Oh my god! What was it full of?”
So I assume journalists are usually asking for all the details, but I wonder if police are a special case 🤷
One more related example. I’m sure a separate person writes the photo captions, but the 4th photo in this CBC article is captioned “Anti-logging protesters at Fairy Creek on Sept. 29, 2021” when there are also at least 4 cops in the frame, including the central subject. A whole other level to not even name that police exist.
An hour!
I’m excited that my enemy (seasonal clock changes) has been defeated, but it might be awhile before I stop being offended about getting up one hour early forever 🫩
New album from the MRI
Update: just got a middle-of-the-night MRI and I cannot recommend it enough to (non-claustrophobic) fans of noise music, experimental techno, etc.
The MRI tech explained that the magnetic pulses can induce currents in your body, so in addition to the vibrations from the loud noises, some people feel tingling or see lights. Wish they could harness that for a club experience.
New album from the dishwasher
One time I finished listening to an ambient album but I didn’t realize for 45 minutes because the dishwasher was on.
One time I sent my work chat a link to a website that autoplayed a weird ambient soundtrack, but I didn’t realize because I was already listening to weird ambient music and it blended right in.
But none of these beat Simon, inveterate listener of weird ambient music. One time he was reading alone in a room with no music on, and our child walked in and announced “this is the weirdest music you have ever listened to” about the sound of a sprinkler coming in through the window.