music
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Spring Rain by Robert Hass
Now the rain is falling, freshly, in the intervals between sunlight,a Pacific squall started no one knows where, drawn east as the drifts of warm air make a channel;it moves its own way, like water or the mind,and spills this rain passing over. The Sierras will catch it as the last snow flurries before summer,… Continue reading
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The Mars Volta
There’s a new album from The Mars Volta: Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio Mercurial, unpredictable group of musicians satisfies two of Timothy Snyder’s tests for freedom: sovereign and unpredictable. Lucro Sucio: Los Ojos del Vacío in English means filthy lucre, vacant eyes. Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my newsletter, Artisanal Scribbles, where I’m grappling with writing, authentic human authorship, integrity, and the craft of beauty in the AI age. You can also find some of my old software projects at GitHub. Nothing very impressive. I mostly wrote tiny utilities in Python and shell scripts. I’m mostly retired from coding nowadays.
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