Jess Driscoll

READING Veronique made a calling card in zine form. I might do this. (In fact, I might do this today. I've been streaming again, looking to find some zinemaking motivation again.) Here's a Mastodon bot that only tweets quotes from the Frog and Toad books by

The spring Electric Zine jam just started today. Make a zine using Nathalie Lawhead's Electric Zine Maker and submit it before June 4th. I might make something about birds. I just discovered this challenge list for April: #aptrill. And if that's not enough birds for you,

Sara Jakša linked to this quiz: What emotion do you create from? The last question asks you to predict your result. From a list of 15 words, choose the one you suspect is you. I chose Longing; I got Alienation. You create from alienation. There is a distance not only

Remember how my friends got Alan Alda to record my voicemail for my birthday? It's one of the perks of his podcast's Patreon. You also get to join a monthly Zoom Q&A. I've been thinking all month about what question I wanted

Because I've been blogging forever (2001), I've been thinking about vlogging forever. Ever since I saw YouTube, I wanted to make YouTube videos. So, since 2005, at least. But I am not a person who wants to do something and then does it. I don'

(Some media notes leftover from before my Mexico vacation, plus what I've been doing since I got back.) LISTENING I'm currently on Apple Music (six months free from my job at the Apple store), so I'm listening to the 25th anniversary deluxe version of

My first blog was on Blogger; my last was a static site I edited through GitHub. After 23 years writing online, my ideal website is somewhere in between. I'm hoping this is Ghost. I'm a techie, but I'm not a programmer. So when I

Today is March 15, the Ides, and if you've ever spent any time on Tumblr, you know we celebrate the assassination of Julius Caesar every year. Nearly the first post I saw on my dashboard this morning was this rendition of Marc Antony's funeral speech by

I don't remember when I started adding alt text to photos. That's not to say I've been doing it for soooo long. Back in my hand-coded HTML days, it wasn't a regular practice. It's only been in the last

During my burnout year, I stopped composting. In the city where I live, we have to sort garbage, compost, container recycling, and paper recycling, and on top of that, I live in the basement suite with a family of four upstairs, so our bins are basically always full. Compost wasn&