Wygle Wide Web

The random date generator landed on May 26, 2020, and my first reaction was, “Ew. I don’t like that date.” We were a couple of months into the pandemic, which did not immediately strike me as a period I was eager to revisit. But apparently, while I was bored at home, I had decided to…

The random date generator landed on Tuesday, July 17, 2007, which at first looked like one of those dates where the archive was going to hand me a bunch of links and expect me to pretend there was a story in there somewhere. There were tweets about Twittercal and an Engadget post about a Space…

The random number generator landed on Tuesday, February 8, 2005, and this time it appears to have found the first day of a career. My LiveJournal had absolutely nothing to say about it. There was a post in January, then a large empty space, then in April I wandered back onto the internet to mention…

One of the strange things about digging through Adam At Last this way, one random date at a time, is that sometimes you land on a day that looks like almost nothing until you start pulling on one little thread and then suddenly half your twenties come spilling out of the wall. January 22, 2001…

On March 8, 2017 I was preserving old radio, teaching TV production, collecting beer money for a livestream, and trying to sell three cameras that had become an expensive mistake. Then the camera story collided with the bankruptcy story.

On March 25, 2018, at 3:14 in the afternoon, I walked into Hi-Voltage Records in Tacoma and spent $24.27 on a brand new copy of Haley Heynderickx’s I Need to Start a Garden, which is the sort of completely ordinary transaction that would have disappeared from my memory forever if I hadn’t apparently spent the…

The Wheel of Time dropped me on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, and this time it found something I had actually been hoping would come up, which is a nice change from staring at a pile of old tweets and trying to decide whether complaining about my phone constitutes a story. Among the tweets was this…

A free Sounders ticket becomes a community, a documentary project, two ridiculous road trips, a championship, a Love Boat parody, and a second seat for family.

The wheel landed about sixty hours after I quit smoking in 2013. Thirteen years later, I was writing about it with one cigarette left in the pack.

A random Thursday in April 2013 opens into the story of Chaos, a PipelineDeals commercial that took Bootstrapper Studios 13 months and 15 days from initial estimate to its last documented re-edit—and stretched me as a director, producer, editor, and client manager along the way.