Anthrocon 2025 + Room Party - 2025-07-12 09:49:00 -0500

The thing I most remember from Anthrocon 2025 is dicking around at Chakat Windshear’s booth, asking if there were any Brian O’Connell originals. An older guy next to me asked if I knew he died a few days before while flipping through Genus, and one of the unpaid laborers at Chakat Windshear’s booth responded, “They’re dropping like flies.” We’re at the point where we’re actively witnessing the deaths of many of the artists that shaped the visual language, and proclivities, of the furry fandom.

What Hath God Wrought Review - 2025-01-05 15:10:18 -0600

I haven’t written a book review until now, and did not take extensive notes while reading. The following post is an attempt by me to paraphrase the historiography of a book I read for my future reference.

Happy New Year Xbox - 2025-01-01 15:06:52 -0600

This is my self-hosted blog. I don’t know if self-hosting is trendy, because there are a lot of subcultures creating a lot of trends, but it feels trendy considering the people I’m around. Nostalgia for the turn of the millennium invokes a kind of world in which a “Pirate Party” could make sense. One of my friends in grad school referenced the old Anarchist point that, with the attempts by the US government to capture stolen revenue that results from illegal downloading of media, many things seem to fall under Smithian rentierdom. Twenty years after that point, we hear about techno-feudalism. Now, our techno-serfs desire to be techno-peasants, thinking that it constitutes a return to the “old web.” But I don’t know if there is any going back.