Status
Now
Reading a lot, both ebooks and saved articles; watching the Red Sox completely suck at baseball; navigating the intermittent and unwanted hot weather; maintaining the resumed the daily walk; failing to turn spring decluttering into spring cleaning; in recovery from blogging; waiting to get past the Complex Psychological Assessment at the end of June at the request of Social Security; still not winning the lottery and ensuring myself a future.
Follow
Apple Music, Apple Podcasts (if only), Bluesky, Flickr, Giphy, Goodreads, Instapaper, Letterboxd, Mastodon, Reddit, Trakt.
Support
Amazon (also), Apple Cash, Cash App, IKEA, Ko-fi, Kobo, PayPal, TeePublic, Threadless, Venmo.
Identities
Agnostic, antifascist, antiracist (aspirationally), aromantic, caucasian (per se), celibate, cisgender (he/him), drugless, heterosexual, introverted, nonalcoholic, pedestrian, single, straphanger.
Diagnosis
“Clinical evaluation and tests indicate that aspects of his functioning are impaired by his autism spectrum disorder, and related anxiety; cognitive and behavioral rigidity; deficits in social reciprocity; poor understanding and management of his own emotional and behavioral responses; and his inability to tolerate distress, ambiguity, and to engage in goal-directed behavior when he does not clearly see and agree with the method and purpose of the tasks and general direction of the activities.” (2016)
Impairments
Aphantasia, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, autism spectrum disorder, chronic adjustment disorder, developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia), generalized anxiety disorder, myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome) (?), obsessive-compulsive disorder, pathological demand avoidance, rejection sensitive dysphoria, sensory processing disorder, severely deficient autobiographical memory.
Worries
Climate crisis, rising fascism, increasing disability, eventual poverty, loss of autonomy, inevitable death.
Manifesto
“There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind” (Eliot Rosewater), “we don’t have to be mean, because remember: no matter where you go, there you are” (Buckaroo Banzai), “this is an awful place to be dropped down halfway” (Helen), “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody” (Franny Glass), “so it goes” (Kurt Vonnegut).
Companions
One gray, domestic shorthair cat with white markings, since late 2014; previously: one dilute calico domestic shorthair cat (R.I.P. 2022), one stunted gray tabby with white markings (R.I.P. 2014).
Fandom
“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.” (Gene Roddenberry)
Baseball
Born and raised resident of Red Sox nation, thanks to my late father; fan and regular viewer of the most narrative game, and no other; yes, my team sucks this year.
Sites
America’s Wang, Bix Not Blog, Currently, The Finger Publishing Co., Oznot’s Monster, The War Prayer by Mark Twain, Inside Joss Whedon’s Unfilmed Goners.
Past
Stop S.314 (mid-1990s), The Millennium Cafe (late-1990s), Portland Communique (early-2000s), Can’t Stop the Serenity (mid-2000s), The Belmont Goats (mid-2010s).
Testimonials
“Good company” (Children’s House of Montessori), “unsubtle and not brilliant” (Dominque Nahas), “quick wit" (Rolling Stone), “punk” (Bruce Sterling), “no one” (Dave Winer), “internet pioneer” (Jonah Seiger), “punctuation-enhanced” (David Weinberger), “must-read” (The Oregonian), “cottage-industry” (Christian Crumlish), “mastermind” (Willamette Week), “sissy” (Nathaniel Clevenger III), “true independent” (David D. Perlmutter), “extremely discredited” (DarkCryo), “twitchy, unreliable-looking” (Joss Whedon), “pompous shit show asshat” (Adam Mazza).
Colophon
Born in the Capital District of upstate New York on Saturday, October 25, 1969; of Italian and Lithuanian (paternally) and Polish (maternally) descent; on the internet since late 1993; Portlander since early 1997; “Bix” since the late 90s, legally since early 2018; domain since early 2020, from 1993 username, from the song.
Rules
If you email, message, or interact with me in any way: no fear, no hate, no thoughtless bullshit, no nazis.
How
This modern take on a vintage personal website is handmade in Pulsar using HTML, CSS, JavaScript (view source); fonts by Modern Font Stacks, palette by Open Color, stats by W3Counter; accessibility check by WebAIM/WAVE; served to you over the small web by OMG.LOL; if you spotted my Wi-Fi network and had to have a look, hello.
