HOLLOHULO!

Here’s my 2024 playlist. Songs that got played a lot according to my listening log on Spotify, records that didn’t leave the record player area, tunes I kept singing to myself as I did stuff. It’s a sludge this year. Lots of sad, but 2024 was filled with mostly OK events. I was just tired…

My playlist of songs and moments of music I listened to a lot this year is both public on my YouTube channel and embedded below. As in 2021, 2018, and 2017, my picks are loosely based on numbers: streaming service histories from spotify and apple, records left on the floor near my record player, times…

Sending so many good bell hooks Curtis Mayfield Joan Didion Sandra Cisneros Joan Rivers Whoopi Goldberg Sun Ra vibes to you Thanks for coming over I love you I’m just in progress and not the perfect angel of a being yet to be able to say it out loud.

(note – just found this essay I wrote as a Facebook post 4 years ago in tribute to my Great-Uncle Ignacio “Nacho” Almaguer, who had died a few nights earlier. I’m not sure I want to go for 90 anymore, but 75 might be a good time to start listening to those records and farting…

Advantages to being a teenager when I was a teenager and *not* now – I did not have access to “print-on-demand” technology I had to either draw or cut out images from clip art journals and literally paste them to my master page and hope the copy machine at the public library could “read” my…

Here’s a video I made with Marc & Brett, my old collaborators in Temporary Services, in 2005 – I live for the day that someone says “Whaddya call it?” to me so I can reply with “Ode To Hero of the Future, Number 5”. If I had the opportunity to remake this, I would cut…

(a continually updated post as I link items) You can find evidence of my humanity in – Visions For Chicago (also readable in full here) The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (article about The Free Store) “The Power to Transform” (article/interview I wrote about Lauren Sugerman of Chicago Women in Trades) that said, you can…

you can also tumblr with me/us at http://cat-cast.tumblr.com/

My friend Mike P posted his music picks new and old for 2016 on the old FB mess-site and I’d like to follow suit … Here is new or old-but-new-to-me music I listened to and greatly enjoyed in 2016: New (in no order): Jamila Woods – HEAVN Maxx Katz’s Floom project David Bowie – Blackstar…

here’s a short story I wrote in 2010 for the Ausgang website:   http://www.ausgang.com/shelf/dying/scj.html