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The finished product, before numbering

I've been an on-and-off printmaker for 25 years. Less so, recently. But the phrase "death is renewal" and variants of that had been running through my ead for a week or so, and I decided a print was in order.

Pewter ink on 5x7 printmaking paper. I added some watercolors to the flowers.

Anybody want one? Limited run of six. (Plus one gold flower that was printed from an old plate.) I'll send it in an envelope for the low, low price of emailing me at andy@zeigert.com with your mailing address. I will burn your email after reading.

Printed but not colored

Couldn't find my old barren or ink plate, so I used a candle and the back of a binder

Editor's note: This was supposed to be a September post but I got busy and it slipped into October, so forgive me if any of these are stale.

https://teenage.engineering/store/ca-x-red

Still have my little Tonic Pocket Operator, which I play around with every once in a while. I've always kind of wanted one of these nice cases, but the price point always seemed a little too high, and I thought that if I waited a year or two, it would come down or the resale market would hook me up. But alas, the price remains the same. I left it open in a tab for a couple weeks to see if I could justify the purchase, but I could not at this time.

https://wwwobble.org/

Now that Glitch is going away, there's space in the market for a tool for making simple websites right in the browser. Wobble is one such attempt, and I like the amount of thought that went into its user experience.

https://store.pushpullseattle.com/product/push-pull-supplies-black-mass-halloween-sticky-caps-set-limited-/OCV5UZZWE5OUKXAUC67PXI5K?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true

Custom-made, halloween-themed watercolors!

https://www.mend.io/renovate/ As a person who has to manage a bunch of node projects, this absolutely captured my interest. I haven't implemented it yet, but I'm hoping to soon.

https://soundcloud.com/doomedandstoned/endgame It's a podcast about doom metal and stoner rock and it's one of my favorites. If you are at all interested in the genre, this is the finger on the pulse. The hosts are great and feel very human. More like listening to a few folks sitting at the bar shooting the shit than listening to three dudes record in their pristine home studios.

https://culturesforhealth.com/blogs/recipes/sourdough-recipe-sourdough-pizza-crust?_pos=2&_sid=ccf1da5db&_ss=r

I'm 5 years later than most but I've got a sourdough starter in a jar on the counter. Several loaves and doughs in and I'm starting to understand some of the higher level concepts.

https://helleborezine.com/products/hellebore14?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Already preordered. As far as I'm concerned this is the high water mark for small press magazines in the modern era.

https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/l/retro-tech/9883280c-e28b-49ae-9ebe-07753f6ab18a

Ever really thought about ditching your smartphone and going back to a bar phone and an iPod? I have. I've thought about it a lot.

https://github.com/osa1/tiny

A slick, terminal-based IRC client written in Rust. Nerd central.

https://modernspare.com

I don't know if anyone else has a "modern" car that eschews the spare in favor of a can of fix-a-flat, but I might be picking up one of these soon, at least for long trips.

I read two articles about dead musicians that seemed related.

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd offered a write-up of a new documentary about Jeff Buckley, which places his admiration for women singers in context, making his chameleonic voice seem even more beautiful in retrospect. I'll be checking out that doc as soon as I can.

Elsewhere, John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats fame) eschews the classic obituarian list of achievements and instead writes about how Ozzy Osbourne's voice makes you feel.

Good stuff.