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Quotidian Things & Stuff (QTS)

Quotidian Things & Stuff is a podcast about the everyday experience of the everyday. When I make it, I try to work fast, without overanalyzing the content and without getting into an obsessive headspace where I scrutinize every aspect of the production. It's a podcast I hope is fun and interesting.

The way bananas tasted when I was a kid

From Warren Ellis’s blog: I’m eating blueberries and listening to the radio. Yesterday, I ate a banana that tasted exactly the way bananas tasted when I was a kid. This is one of those descriptions of a quotidian moments that tend to capture my attention when I encounter

On going on

From A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative (p. 10). I like these sentences. They are simple, and they seem so truth to me as I read them.

QCP-018 | Renovations

Content: This episode is recorded outside on the go, so the audio quality is not as high as I would like. I talk about living through home renovations, which I wrote about in this week's ◉ Newsletter. Referenced: Dead cat microphone windscreen

QCP-017 | Made something

Content: In this episode, I go on riffing on the stuff I talked about in CEP-016, an then I share something I made when doing other things I normally do was off the table. Referenced: - Logic Pro - Ghostbusters - Derrida Writing & Difference

Life on Mars & phones

From this week’s post on the blog Walk Notes: I’m not sure there’s a more melancholy tune in the world than Life On Mars played by a local band in a church hall while a tea urn boils in the background. This is one of those observations

QCP-016 | Spray Foam & Reading Derrida

Contents: 1. Episode 016 is the start of Season 2. QTS is now QCP. 2. I'm out of sorts because my routines have been very thrown off. 3. The other day, I tried to read some Derrida Referenced: - The Philistines Jr. Tarquin's half-assed mission statement

[Listening] Saisei by DJ Krush

Earlier today, I went for a walk. While walking, I listened to Saisei, the newest DJ Krush album (Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp). These are some observations that came to mind while listening to the album. There are no skippable tracks Usually, when I listen to an album, there is a

Bots fighting bots

From Warren Ellis’s blog post: I read something the other day – didn’t save the link – wherein winter is predicted for the web. This was the nut of it: AI search engines like Perplexity run around the web at your prompt, scrape info out of a bunch of web

QTS-015 | Moon

Content: A very cool thing happened to me earlier this week. I had taken my two older kids out to eat at this hotdog place they both love. As we walked back to the car, I pointed out the almost full moon to the kids. Then we got in the

Everyday choices

Everyday, there is so much stuff (books, podcasts, long-from articles and blog posts, films, audiobooks, comics, music, games, tv shows, etc.) I want to spend time absorbing. Every. Day. But time and my attention are not unlimited. Both are finite. So I’ve got to make choices about what gets