The Other Brook

theotherbrook@sunny.garden

Once and future writer, audio engineer, video producer, photographer, web person, Commedia dell'Arte character. Recovering Technologist teetering on the edge of becoming a Soilpunk.He/HimMedia is my message.

Posts

Post #4054394
I put down some straw for mulch over the winter and now we have a small patch of volunteer grain ready to harvest from the seeds that were in it.
Post #2029055
Yesterday, at about noon, I saw a dark colored dog with short legs running up the hill. Then there was another that looked just the same. That&#39;s when I realized they were coyotes, out for a jog.
Post #1949583
&quot;Coachella 2026: Violent winds disrupt festival, campgrounds&quot; Sorry. I should have soaked the beans longer.
Post #1923200
Went out to see a guy I&#39;d talked to at the bar play country, both covers and originals, and he was really good. There were six of us in the audience, so I&#39;m really glad I showed up.
Post #1923198
If it can&#39;t be air fried it&#39;s not worth eating.
Post #1923196
Online guitar lesson #2, five minutes in: &quot;This is stupid! My fingers are too short and fat for this bullshit! Guitars are dumb!&quot;
Post #1923195
Well, my &quot;Imma learn play guitar&quot; guitar just fell over and the headstock broke right off the neck. It wasn&#39;t even much of a fall, so WTF Fender? Two days. I owned it two days. But I did pay for two years damage protection so I think I&#39;ll be able to get a replacement. Grrr. ETA: Somehow in my annoyance I blamed Gibson, when I should have blamed Fender.
Post #1923194
Legally changing my name to Chip Shortage.
Post #1923193
The purple raspberries are out of the pots and into the ground.
Post #1923192
Kegels kegels kegels I made you out of clay
Post #1635488
I&#39;m so old I remember when &quot;Best [Insert Category Here]&quot; lists were actually hands-on reviews of products and not just an excuse for a bunch of Amazon Affiliate links.
Post #1635487
It&#39;s probably a bit too early in the season to wear a straw hat. But I do look cute in it.
Post #1635486
Oh hey. My Cake Day on Reddit was six days ago and I totally missed it. That feels like progress.
Post #1635485
I barely heard Traffic&#39;s &quot;The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys&quot; on a bar playlist over the crowd noise last night, but it was enough for the song to take possession of mind as it always does. So today when I&#39;m reading a Wikipedia article about the UK band The Locomotive having a minor hit in 1968 with an original ska song &quot;Rudi&#39;s in Love&quot; and see that their saxophonist was Chris Wood who later joined Traffic, I start following links relate...
Post #1635484
Is it a day of the week? Again???
Post #1635483
God save the Plums In the fascist icebox You saved them to last Potential breakfast God save the Plums They&#39;ve already been eaten There is no future In cold fruit saving No future No future No future for plums No future No future No future for you No future No future No future for plums No future No future for plums
Post #1635481
For some reason I just remembered how when our son was 10 his friend&#39;s dad took them to see Spielberg&#39;s film Lincoln, but he thought they were going to see Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and so he spent the entire movie waiting to find out which members of Congress were secretly vampires.
Post #1635480
Yesterday I cooked lentils. Today I cooked pearl couscous. What small, round thing shall I cook tomorrow? Peas?
Post #1635479
I made a big pot of really delicious coffee and then 2/3 of the way through it my wife pointed out I&#39;d accidentally used the decaf.
Post #1491951
The Moon and Venus are simply spectacular together right now.
Post #1491949
I just wrote the word &quot;people&quot; and never has any arrangement of letters looked more like complete and total gibberish to me than that. Who thought that spelling was a good idea?
Post #1491947
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fosstodon/116432082951837156 I&#39;ve been seeing warnings about mastodon.cloud for a while, but it just now clicked. I have an account on there that I haven&#39;t used since 2017 and had totally forgotten about. Deleted.
Post #1491945
The robo-vacuum has only been on for 90 seconds and already we&#39;re telling it it&#39;s doing its job wrong.
Post #1491943
I haven&#39;t seen the turkeys today but I&#39;ve been hearing them constantly since early this morning.
Post #1491941
I&#39;ve never really thought about it before but now I&#39;m wondering why the cake in &quot;MacArthur Park&quot; took so long to bake. I mean if it was a really big cake I suppose it could take an hour or so, but that really isn&#39;t that long in the grand scheme of things. Still a shame to just leave it out in the rain like that though.
Post #1491939
It&#39;s a beautiful morning and while I drink coffee I&#39;m using the internet to read about how bad the internet is for everything I care about.
Post #1491938
The cider apple trees have arrived. Don&#39;t tell the deer.
Post #1491937
I really am not enjoying how frequently I see a news aggregation site and one of the top stories is about a celebrity a few years younger than me dying.
Post #1491936
Supposedly it&#39;s only like 30% humidity outside, but we just got so gross doing not a whole lot of physical labor I took a second shower. I wonder if up here in this kind of bowl above the city we&#39;ve trapped a layer of moisture because it feels way more humid than that.
Post #1491935
The goose across the road says &quot;It&#39;s 2:34 AM and nothing is well! Nothing at all!&quot;