Buzz Andersen @buzz@andersen.social

My neighbors left a pile of garbage in our cul-de-sac on this 95 degree day and it’s really transporting me, Proust-style, to good old NYC summertime.

Folks, it’s hot

Baby’s first trip to Palm Springs

Increasingly convinced that half the time I think people hate my ideas they just have no idea what I'm talking about.

Suggested in a meeting that a new feature for our app could be "you know, like DVD extras!" and got a blank reaction from everyone else. Thought everyone just hated my idea until I realized that apparently the younger people had no idea what I was talking about. Still cannot believe this.

Wow, Monk was really ahead of the curve on that meme.

Anyway, Library of Congress HMU

Sometimes I think my best shot at immortality is having been one of those people who took a lot of photos that people at the time thought were too boring to be worthy of attention but in retrospect turn out to document a specific time and place in a weirdly thorough fashion.

Very few things about the Year 2022 feel like 1990s made-for-TV sci-fi movies led me to believe they would be, but when someone plops one of these babies down on the table and says “Here’s the menu,” I feel very cyberpunk.

Atlantic City, New Jersey - Kodak Ektachrome E100G

"One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation." - J. M. Coetzee: “Waiting for the Barbarians”

“Midlife Crisis” is so cliché. Henceforth I’m going to refer to mine as The Fourth Turning.

Atlantic City, New Jersey - Kodak Portra 160 NC 120 film

How my dog watches me cook.

Not even gonna correct that typo. That’s how blasé I am about social media.

I think in the grand scheme or things, I’m going to look back on the advent of “stories” as the point I really started to lose interest in social media. They’re ostensibly more sincere, but I think they’re kind of the apotheosis if there medium’s shallowness.

Just had to pause to contemplate the game theoretical dynamics of this season’s Drag Race All Star rules.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gz7g/billionaire-says-huge-tattoo-of-dollar40b-crypto-failure-is-reminder-of-humility