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August Reading; “Media At Large”

Folks, we’re going to be SPEEDRUNNING the patreon content this month to condense it into a 2 day period - that’s what happens when I tour for 2 weeks and perform 32 times in 4 days. View Post

July Reading Excerpt; "How To Not Always Be Working"

After spending an unexpected amount of time either on the road or in a train terminal without wifi, I am finally getting around to sharing excerpts from “How To Not Always Be Working” by Marlee...

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July Archive Highlight - “Saying 'this is important, because it's in this time capsule' "


It’s the final waning hours of July - or at least, it was last night when I was sitting in the Wifi-less desert of Amtrak’s 30th Street Station, babysitting the installation of s...

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July Reading; “Working on Not Working”

Welcome to this month’s reading list, deep from the “envisioning better work/life balance is difficult to save time for without work/life balance” collection.


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June Reading Excerpt; "The Art of Asking"

Getting thoughtful about relationships, connection, exchange, boundaries and more by reading "The Art of Asking" by Amanda Palmer.

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June Archive Highlight - "Make Him An Offer(ing) He Can't Refuse"

June Archive Highlight - "Make Him An Offer(ing) He Can't Refuse"


In celebration of the
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June Reading; “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Crowdfunder”

Just a few precious (and in Philadelphia, already blistering) days of Spring left. The book I had hoped to read is 2024-06-17 17:42:41 +0000 UTC View Post

May Reading Excerpt - "Keep Going"

A few reminders from Austin Kleon's book "Keep Going" on how to do precisely that in a creative life

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May Archive Highlight - "For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow"

For this month, in celebrating my unlikely and very fortuitous acceptance into the 6-Month 2024 FORGE Fe...

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May Reading; “It’s a Living”

Another month, another flexible interpretation of my deadlines for posting. May brings another exciting excuse, which is that I’ve been selected to joi...

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Reading Excerpt; "Personal Grief Rituals" by Paul M. Martin

You know that feeling when you go looking for tools and structures and end up accidentally reading a literature review too? Well, you would if you picked up a copy of this book - but I can just pul...

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April Archive Highlight - “Eventually Something Will Look Familiar”

In a conversation I had lately (read: today, 4 hours ago - these get edited to the very last minute, you know?), I found myself asking a question so interesting to me it only took me 3 att...

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April Reading; “Single Serving Grief”

Between a very unsuccessful tax season (that’s Uncle Sam: 13, Yannick: 0 for those keeping score) and a surprise presentation at a 2024-04-19 19:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Reading Excerpt; "The God Committee"

This month I hung out with Mark St. Germain's play The God Committee. I've done a brief read above, but didn't really find a way of doing it that felt so interesting. If you want a proper ...

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April Archive Highlight - “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Desk”

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This month marks 4 years of operating 2024-03-31 21:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post

March Reading; “The Committee Committee”


Bit of a strange diversion this month, but there’s method in the madness. I’ve been hopping through quite a few books in my background research that share a common thread of re...

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Reading Excerpt: "Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake

Hello I adore this book and I fought myself all month to not just read the whole thing to you. Highly recommend you do so for yourself, but for now have some excerpts, in which you can draw a strai...

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February Archive Highlight - Feel Your Roots

This month, rather than digging deep into the archive of past projects, we’re going to look at the topsoil of a curious project that just recently came across my plate.

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February Reading; “Oh What Tangled Webs are Woven”


Hello,

February is here, and already more than half-gone. Short months are like that, and production months all the more so.
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January Archive Highlight - How I Learned to Juggle


As it turns out, I have a habit of leaving things to the last minute - which happens to be fairly incompatible with getting large, last minute gigs and bookings. So it is that Janu...

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Reading Excerpt; The Power of Habit

If you checked out this month's reading list, you know that many people* believe that the end of January is as good if not better a time for changing habits as the new year rush for resolutions. In...

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January Reading; “Habit Forming”


Hello all,

Ah, January 1st - the peak day in the peak season for getting a drastically early start on things in a way that will never be sustained. It’s resolution season,...

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Reading Excerpt; "All About Love"

If you haven't cast your own vote in this month's little informal poll about "is Love a Verb or a Noun?," I suggest you do so now before listening, because Bell Hooks definitely has an opi...

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December Archive Highlight - An Informal Poll


Given the reading for the month, I couldn’t resist looking back on a research action for an old piece about “What Makes Some Love True?,” back from the era of the Institute f...

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December Reading; "Know Love Loss"


Hello all,

Sliding into the end of the year, and already treading the waters of that strange time between Thanksgiving and New Years where many of the people I know seem to ...

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Reading Excerpt; "The Water Will Come"

As my time with Garage Stories comes to a close, and I prepare to join the crew of artists pitching proposals for new creative projects to communicate and strategize around Sea Level Rise, I'm pull...

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November Archive Highlight - “Your Contribution is Noted”


Currently, I’m spending most of my research bandwidth on Forcing Climate Change Research through my brain and considering different pitches and tech applications; however, one of...

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November Reading; “High Tide”


Hello all,

This month I’m doing a hard-pivot away from my intending reading/writing, but for an exciting reason: I’ve been selected as one of about 15 teams of artists, ...

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Belated; The October Excerpt

Hey All,

Last month I read
The Cloisters, by Katy Hay, hoping for a soft and entertaining entry into understanding tarot. I struggled a fair bit with getting an excerpt, because...

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October Archive Highlight - “Pay Up Continues; "Updates from Management”



This month’s Archive Highlight is from a work very much in process - which is to say, it’s been 12 months since I ran the numbers on Undersigned as part of my ongo...

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