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Episode 36 - The Hoard, As SuchAll of it, all in one place for the first time perhaps ever.Well, it’s here now. I don’t ...
03/07/2025

Episode 36 - The Hoard, As Such

All of it, all in one place for the first time perhaps ever.

Well, it’s here now. I don’t know what I feel exactly. Setting aside the sale of the ancestral estate in Napa, I’m now confronted with the reality of The Hoard amassed in one room. I mean, what am I looking at here? Is this an archive? Some kind of message in a bottle? An overblown junk drawer? Yes, and more. The Hoard in The Vault at Ochre Acres is an information mind beam spanning timespace, transmitting evidence constituent to our collective endowment.

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This hollow book has been with me since I was a toddler. Everybody loves secret compartments and things-not-as-they-seem...
06/09/2024

This hollow book has been with me since I was a toddler. Everybody loves secret compartments and things-not-as-they-seem. No idea where my parents got it, but it seems to be of a set with a tiny liquor box (complete with shot glasses and carafe) disguised as a small stack of books. I requisitioned it as a teenager and its meaningful contents have changed over the years, until it was sealed up in a shoebox and more or less forgotten until now.

At a very young age I remember, here in this specific copy of this particular paperback, a name was pointed out, a relat...
26/08/2024

At a very young age I remember, here in this specific copy of this particular paperback, a name was pointed out, a relative who featured in this remarkably dark saga. One of the good guys.

An arcane wine bottle totem from the shoebox, maybe to ward against globalized capital. Or to contain some sort of djinn...
24/08/2024

An arcane wine bottle totem from the shoebox, maybe to ward against globalized capital. Or to contain some sort of djinn?

Portrait of cage as glass box containing peanut can.
22/08/2024

Portrait of cage as glass box containing peanut can.

This will be the first of many posts about this shoebox. It's paydirt, a revelation. Precisely the kind of evocative jun...
20/08/2024

This will be the first of many posts about this shoebox. It's paydirt, a revelation. Precisely the kind of evocative junk drawer I'd hoped to unearth from within The Hoard when I brought it all back with me.

There's always some kind of ice sculpture somewhere at the game development conference.
18/08/2024

There's always some kind of ice sculpture somewhere at the game development conference.

In a prior life, I was a video game producer who went to game development conferences in major metropoles.
16/08/2024

In a prior life, I was a video game producer who went to game development conferences in major metropoles.

Every once in a while, a little Russian would peek out from behind the little Belgian.
14/08/2024

Every once in a while, a little Russian would peek out from behind the little Belgian.

Much of the 2010s was spent back in the homeland. Now it feels like a bit of a blip, a blurry blip at best.
13/08/2024

Much of the 2010s was spent back in the homeland. Now it feels like a bit of a blip, a blurry blip at best.

The year was 2001. It was almost noon that day in mid-December, and I found myself at the Barnes & Noble down the viaduc...
11/08/2024

The year was 2001. It was almost noon that day in mid-December, and I found myself at the Barnes & Noble down the viaduct in U Village. I was picking up a copy of Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain and a book on English bread and yeast, presumably for Sal. I also threw in some notecards with the vaguely holiday themed image of Monet's "The Magpie". My smoker's cough was getting the better of me so I popped a cherry cough drop, which I never finished.

Unfortunately we did not encounter any pink flanmingos while in the Galapagos. Someday I would like to perch one up on t...
09/08/2024

Unfortunately we did not encounter any pink flanmingos while in the Galapagos. Someday I would like to perch one up on top of a tortoise because that would be cool. Someday...

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