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Wtf is Antisocial Media?
Welcome to the only place I post pics, updates, and fun stuff online!
I made this thing (with help from my buddy Lewis!) so I could get off social media, which is a lousy way to interact with my friends / family and terrible for society as a whole. The owners are trash, the data mining is creepy, and the algorithms keep us stuck in echo-chambers, rewarding the loudest and most controversial voices.
The apps are addicting by design, and the monetization of everything has puréed art and pop culture into a flavorless porridge. And it seems to flow faster every day. I've started feeling like one of the people in Wall-E lol
So I'm gonna try to go back to a slower, smaller, chiller version of the internet. Join me :)
How's it work?
You can subscribe here, or just bookmark this page and check back whenever! The newest post will always be at the top. I'm working on making it interactive-- but for now, think of it as a bulletin board I guess.
I wanna make this thing collaborative, so I'll be featuring friends' projects and stuff whenever I can! Thanks for reading :)
5-15-2025
Pic of the day:
Some crazy marine-layer type fog rolled in yesterday. God I love clouds. How sick is this
I'm jamming to:
Gerard Way is essentially his own genre. Gerardnre
Also been hooked on this extremely 2am track. It's got them vampire chords
I had a super musical weekend honestly-- Friday I went to Tim's friends' illicit midnight set on the seawall, Saturday he and Matt and I went to George Clanton at house-o-blues and Sunday I went to Kathryn's orchestra concert. So much good music to be shared with good peeps :)
Critical Todd update:
He learned Kung Fu. I'm fucked
I watched:
K and I watched Conclave last week, along with everyone else in Chicago. I'd actually been wanting to see it since Max gushed to me about the cinematography and, yeah, it's the best aspect of the movie-- the way the cardinal-red is lit, the bookmatched marble walls, overwhelming centrality of its framing, mirroring Catholic interior architecture... good stuff. Also we both loved Sister Agnes's iron grimace
I'm playing:
Crystal Clear still! I caught Raikou, and set my Umbreon and Espeon up on a date
I'm thankful for:
My jean jacket, the origins of which are a complete mystery. I think my mom found it somewhere? Maybe it's a hand-me-down from my brother? It's really beat up which makes me think it's old... Anyway it's my pride n joy when it's 50-60 degrees out lol
I'm looking forward to:
Getting this damn tattoo design finished!!! Also the Crosstown Classic this weekend with Kathryn :)
5-3-2025
Pic of the day:
Kathryn and I finally got a chance to picnic in Jackson Park! We mostly missed the cherry blossoms (I
think this is an apple tree) but we ain't picky lol
I'm jamming to:
Matt got me hooked on Tapeworms which is a French band that essentially makes J-pop lol. I like their
ridiculous accents hon hon
Todd:
Todd
I watched:
Tim and I went to a 20th anniversary screening of Revenge of the Sith and boy what a wacky movie. It's
like somebody gave a middle schooler an infinite budget for sickass effects and gorgeous spaceship
designs. "From my point of view the Jedi are evil!!!" huh ok bro
I'm playing:
I'm soooo close to finishing the Johto pokedex in Crystal Clear, the only Gen II pokemon I haven't
caught yet are the legendaries (u can get all of em in Crystal Clear because hell yeah). Recent dex
additions are Blissey, Espeon, Dragonite and Entei 💪😤💪
I'm thankful for:
Been getting some new clients n projects lately! Weeeee paying rent. The fun thing about freelancing is
that I get to mess around with so many different
work types-- in a given week I'm doing like 5 or 6 completely different mini jobs and that makes me p
happy
Featured Citypic:
The Pittsfield is just so damn good man. Apparently it's
now tiktok famous lmao. If that dude messes up this building I will FIND him (but tbh he seems
to be pretty passionate about it so it's prolly fine)
I'm looking forward to:
K and I are going to the AQUARIUM today we're
gonna see BELUGAS with their big baby heads
4-17-2025
Pic of the day:
Todd smelled his first pencil eraser
I'm jamming to:
CAPSULE is one of my fav J-pop groups and I feel like I discover a dope old song by them every month or
so. This one's from 2006!
They were really experimental & early to the EDM-J-pop-thing so maybe like 10% of their stuff has aged
well... but when it hits it hits. Toshiko Koshijima's ultra-layered-stereo-chord-autotune-vocals are
like pluggin your ears directly into cyberspace
Featured Coolzone:
A parking garage aka the peoples' balcony
I'm playing:
I hit 201 Pokemon caught in Crystal Clear! Number
two hundo was the Tyrogue the Karate Master gives u at the bottom of Mt. Mortar caves, which I was stuck
in for like 3 days. It's a children's game yall 😅
I've also been getting back into Smash Ultimate-- I forgot how
addictive the Pikachu up-throw to thunder combo is
I'm thankful for:
Some of my friends have been really setting the pace with direct-action fundraising and
volunteering recently and it's been awesome to see and support. With how insane and scary the Fed has
been recently, it's giving me hope that young people will be able to organize properly in opposition at
the local level.
I'm looking forward to:
Seeing Kathryn and some family this weekend, and it's supposed to be warm! Also some good buddies are
working on moving here so I'm excited for that :)
4-8-2025
Pic of the day:
Crit Mass is the closest thing I have to a personality
I'm jamming to:
Tennyson has a really nice vocal rhythm, just smoooooooothly gliding overtop the beat without being too
locked onto it
I'm playing:
My little Johto safari continues in Pokemon Crystal
Clear! I'm up to 199 caught, with some of the recents being Chikorita, Togetic, and a bunch of
the baby pokemon.
K and I were co-chilling on her couch the other night (she was watching White Lotus and I was playing my
gameboy) and one of my eggs started to hatch, and I was like "hey hey watch this, I forget what it's
gonna be, but it'll probably be cute"
It turned out to be Igglybuff, and the
cuteness was apparently so shocking that Kathryn just screamed YAAAAAAAAY
The next day she texted me this:
I'm thankful for:
The fact that I trusted my gut and ignored my otherwise-brilliant tax guy's advice to start investing in
the stock market lmfaooo
I'm also thankful that my friends Stacey and Matthew chose to do a combined karaoke-birthday last
weekend and invited me and let me be annoying heheh
I'm looking forward to:
Supposedly the Jackson Park cherry blossoms are gonna bloom this month but uuuuuuuh consider me
skeptical
3-14-2025
Pic of the day:
My obsession with St Clair St continues.
I'm jamming to:
Been a big Carpainter fan since my little stint in Japan in 2018-19. His stuff is so mechanical and
complex, but with that little touch of warmth, like a cozy seat on a bullet train
I'm playing:
So, I bought an HDMI to mini-HDMI adapter, all excited to play my Anbernic emulator thing on my monitor,
and turns out it's totally bunk on a software level. Soooooo I'm back on
Helldivers 2 babyyy!
The score is great but it's been getting a little tiring-- so I've been muting it and playing the Dune
Part II ost instead lol. Fits weirdly well and recontextualizes everything in wacky ways
I'm thankful for:
Todd! I randomly picked up one of those plastic propeller-handle-toys at a hardware store for him and
he's absolutely feral for it. I think the aerodynamics break his brain cuz when I zing it, he meows his
little head off and can't seem to predict where it'll go. He likes carrying it around in his mouth :)
I'm looking forward to:
My next tat-- I've got the design nearly finished! Shoutout to Max for helping me sort out some
aesthetic balance issues with it
2-28-2025
Pic of the day:
K and I in Boston! We love these tiny Santa-elf-sized streets! She makes fun of me for saying that!
We went on a weekend-ish vacation, first to NYC (to see her brother) and then took the Amtrak up to
Boston (to see some Revolutionary War sites and the Little Women house)! It was great, we saw tons of
cool historic sites and architecture and I had my first canoli. And then two more canolis
I'm jamming to:
Just a thick instrumental for nite zones. I like the all different snares
I'm playing:
Pokemon Emerald Seaglass, which is a romhack of Emerald Version. I'm playing it on my 40XXH
emulator thing. It's got some great new 2nd-gen-style art (and some awful new art) and a speedup button,
so I'm messing around with it. Feels like cheating on my nearly-complete Crystal Clear Version on my gbc
tho lol
I'm thankful for:
That I live in Chicago lol. NYC and Boston were so cool to visit, and so different from Chi and from
each other. Block sizes / street designs / alleyways / terrain / architecture / transit systems etc etc.
I was really surprised by how uncanny they looked at first-- being famous, prototypical American cities,
it was odd that they seemed to be missing stuff: trees, gardens, alleys, large waterfronts, parking
garages, etc. And with such tight winding streets!
Coming back home to Chi, it's interesting how "right" it looks in comparison-- I suppose that's probably
because I came here a lot as a kid, while I was forming my first concepts of "what a city looks like" ?
There's def some stuff I wish I could steal and teleport to Chi-- like Central Park and maybe the whole
Beacon Hill area-- but overall I gotta say, looking at it with fresh eyes, this one's my favorite
I'm looking forward to:
Springggggg
2-15-2025
Pic of the day:
The glow is cuz I took this thru a pair of clear safety glasses (which I wear when I'm walking in bad
weather, it's like my own personal windshield lol)
I'm jamming to:
I love George Clanton so much. His last show here was incredible, the pit was insane for it being
essentially vaporwave
I'm playing:
A bunch of old games on my new emulator thing, mostly
Mario Kart DS! It was one of my favorite games in like, 2007, and honestly it's aged really
nicely-- it's still super smooth, it controls surprisingly well with a d-pad, and the pixel art textures
fit right in with the DS's low rendering resolution which gives the whole thing a nice chunky
consistency. And Eyerok is cool
Also K and I played a little bit of
Animal Crossing: Wild World cuz that was *her* fav game as a kid haha. She says she misses how
rude the villagers used to be to you
I'm thankful for:
Snow!! Twinkly fluffy floating edible crystals that fall from the sky. I could never live in a place
that doesn't get snow.
I'm looking forward to:
Seeing my buddy David's tiny old house that he just closed on. It's a red brick workers cottage from
like 1890 and it looks amazing
2-2-2025
Shoutout: Sanjee's Software-Defined Radio Thing
Today's shoutout is my buddy Sanjee's idea for a software-defined radio (which he's calling "SDR" like
it's gonna catch on lol). He says the idea is to take a radio antenna and hook it up to a computer that
uses software to control the frequency-tuning, rather than a physical analogue transistor /
potentiometer / whatever. He says people have done it before, but it's definitely new to me!
I think it sounds like a sick project, though I'm unsure what it'd be good for besides making super
annoying noise
But this'd hardly be Sanjee's first contraption / doohickey. He's built several of these sorts of
things. He's ahead of the game in that regard
Pic of the day:
Love when industrial stuff is painted bright green. The contrast is crazy-- almost like, a perversion of
green itself
I'm jamming to:
"That's a sport"
I watched:
The Brutalist at Music Box! It was humongous in all
dimensions. I haven't quite sorted out my thoughts about it yet lol
I'm playing:
Helldivers 2
on PC with my pals. Still. It's like the only 3D game I've played in months. The Autocannon is just too
good man
I'm thankful for:
Coworking sessions with friends :) I'm lucky to have buddies who like working and yapping at the same
time. It's maybe my favorite way to be social
I'm looking forward to:
Getting some really good fancy Japanese food with K for restaurant week!!
1-28-2025
What's new:
Working on this blog thingy, petting my cat, etc. Realized the Iroha lines up perfectly with Hot To Go
lol
Pic of the day:
I like how Todd's pouch plops over his legs when he stands like this. Reminds me of Pikachu heheh
I'm jamming to:
Hatsune Miku lol. This is a live performance of a song that's literally Sleeping Beauty? Idk, I just
like the harmonies. This was song #1000 in my awful playlist Sugarpop!
I watched:
Nothin! Seeing The Brutalist with some buddies on
Thursday though :)
I played:
OlliOlli World
for Switch.
Since I heard that the Switch 2 will carry over all my Switch games, I felt like buying a new little
one! OlliOlli World is colorful and casual-- it has momentum-oriented gameplay that reminds me a bit of
Canabalt or Dino Run or Night Skate. It's not perfect (the dialogue is god-awful) but it's fun and flowy
and has a slick soundtrack that reminds me of 2017
I'm thankful for:
Lake Michigan. Growing up, I didn't realize how rare it was to see a completely flat, unbroken horizon
of water. There's something very calming about it, especially when you catch a glimpse of it from beyond
the vertical chaos of the city. And it changes colors every day!
I'm looking forward to:
K's orchestra concert this weekend! She's playing Edward Elgar's "In The South
(Alassio)" which she showed me and it rules, it's so cinematic
1-22-2025
What I've been up to:
Nothing lol it was the holidays baby!
Just kidding, I did quite a bit of client work in the lead-up, and had to crunch a bit buying Christmas
presents for everybody. K was super helpful in preventing me from freaking out. She also gave me a ride
back to Chicago! cry face heart emoji
Pic of the week:
I'm jamming to:
I'm playing:
Street Fighter Alpha
for my GBC.
Cute little fighting game-- it's slow enough for me to actually be decent at lol!
I watched:
Nosferatu.
Cor blimey, we're Germans! I liked how it took really heavily parodied stereotypes (to the point of
like, Sesame Street) and found ways to make em really gothic and scary again! K liked it too, through
her fingers. She was the one who suggested it hahaha
I'm thankful for:
My family's health. Seems like everybody's taking much better care of their backs recently
I'm looking forward to:
Building this blog thing, to hopefully allow me to get off social media for good! I think it's been a
long time coming-- I really genuinely believe social media, in pretty much every form nowadays, is bad
for us and our society, not least of all because of all the billionaire owners sucking up and kissing
the ring lately. I think I'll lead a happier, healthier, perhaps simpler life by leaving social media
and doing something old-school like this instead.