Generalist, writer, raconteur electronique, musician, mosaicist, ursine scootician. I tell stories, make music with electricity, teach mosaic arts at nonprofits, work for a university, and really enjoy a careworn wooden spoon, a well-kept French automobile, or an evening listening to radio drama. I go by #sonascope on #metafilter, #kantoendrato for solo music gigs, #kevsab in duo mode, and tell stories as either Joe Belknap Wall or Joe B Wall.
In the real world, I'm just Joe.
| website and info | https://joebelknapwall.com |
| music | http://www.kantoendrato.com |
| videos | https://youtube.com/@kantoendrato |
| photos | https://pixey.org/rakontisto |
I love my dentist and endodontist, but my inability to ever be numbed by any amount of anaesthesia in my molars short-circuited my dentist visit today and I'm mad at fish for inventing nerves in teeth. ARGH.
#cannotbenumbed #notcomfortablynumb #dentistry #worstsuperpower
Tiger Woods is a further evidence of why I run a mile from golf.
My cat's breath is redolent of putrescence and unhealthy thoughts.
Yeah, Valli Kemp is good, but is she Virginia North good?
Americans are so desperately afraid to be seen as anything like peasants that they impoverish their lives instead by their constant struggle to look like they're well-off and accomplished. I think, reflexively, that this is why I'm perfectly delighted to occupy the peasantsphere and muse in poetry while saving myself from rat race thinking.
I am particularly fond of textures, unwitting assemblages, divine convergence of perspective, objects well out of place, and new angles on terribly ordinary things in photographs.
Technically, I've only been an Apple user for 46 years, but happy birthday to the maker of tools that have served me well for those 46 years (with a little side trip into the C64 realm that's also still a thing). Sure, my first Apple was a clunky thing and writing in Apple Writer I was a weird experience, but it unlocked a lot for me.
#applecomputer #apple50years #tools #computers #justworks #appleIIforever
Among the many reasons I utterly despise every sickening minute of car shopping in the US, foremost are the inexplicable nonexistence of the standard 3/5-door hatchback that is found in every other parking space in Europe and the fact that you can only buy cars here in the color palette of mens' funeral suits.
#carshopping #carshoppingsucks #carcolors #carssuckintheUS #cars #Ideclarewaroncars
“I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own." —Andy Weir, the guy bitching about how terrible he thinks modern Star Trek is.
Guess I'm glad I saw Weir's little rants about sci-fi he hates before I spent my time reading his books.
Steven Hoefer