They got me by talking about my main domain name and my main domain host. Even though it’s not hosted at VentraIP. I’m just so used to having to correct payments there.

I didn’t even notice the bung I in VentraIP, the bad email address, the bad domain.

I’ve locked the two credit cards I fed them. Feel like an idiot.

As Abe Simpson said, and it will happen to yoouuuuu.

One of the little joys of being great at your art is inspiring others to take part in it. So often I am asked how to become a celebrant, that I have finally published my little eight-part guide on how to become a celebrant at the ever-so-smart domain name, becomeacelebrant.au

A letter from a freelancing poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, to her publisher, Poetry magazine, with the business inspiration we all could take, from Letters of Note.

I'm a sucker for a crazy plan of any genre, but a crazy plan to save newspapers, I'm all in, Ted.

This line from the late Rich Mullins is my inspiration for writing, but gosh it's hard sometimes

God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and God’s been speaking through them ever since.

📷 Four frames from El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, today

📷🚁🇲🇽 Four aerial frames from Playa Los Cerritos, Baja California Sur

📷✈️🇺🇸 Four frames out the window of AA2171

📷✈️🇺🇸 Four frames from LAX on Sunday

📷 Four frames from Newport Beach this past weekend

Stephen King in On Writing:

If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

Debt by David Graeber:

If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank.

Hey, don’t be alarmed or anything but the President of Mexico, the head honcho, the big guy in charge, has tweeted that one of his engineers has taken a photo of an elf. Just another day south o’ the border.

I’ve just had my peak Mexican moment. I delivered a dad joke in Spanish and it was perfect.

I’m at our local sushi restaurant ordering takeaway dinner and whilst waiting at the bar they offer me a margarita, and you don’t say no to a margarita in Baja.

I finish it, and he gestured towards my empty glass to which I reply “esta roto” which means “it’s broken” whilst inspecting the bottom of my glass, implying that the drink must have fallen out of the bottom.

He laughs, I laugh, I’m now a Mexican dad and can never leave.

If you want surf and snow in the same trip, I can definitely recommend Los Angeles today.

Drove past this park today and noticed something interesting on Google Maps at (33.6621623, -117.8775484).

I wonder how many aircraft the Google Maps aerial photographers have captured?

Now I’ve just got to hope the people writing memos or sending emails regarding Bel’s Guide don’t stop me.

Do you think Carls Sr. is proud of his son?

This is good content, we should podcast about it.

Visited the Japanese mothership (aka Canon campus) in Los Angeles and asked them to clean my cameras and lenses.

Steve Jobs in 1984 spotting a Macintosh in the wild for the first time.

I couldn’t begin to imagine the what he was feeling seeing a product he knew so intimately, that his team had worked on endlessly, to see from the street it just being used by someone in an office.

I tried but it turns out you can’t go Out before you go In

It’s so special to be in LA to watch the city fall to pieces with my own eyes.

‘dat light + reflection

Los Angeles bound for a few days, thankfully it’s raining so we won’t stay long enough for it to make us soft.

Goldie, taking full advantage of the Shatner Seat

What a time to be alive

Pure second child energy.

I’m going to start sneaking in to her room while she sleeps and bottling some of that excess second child energy and selling it to soldiers and personal trainers who need to get hyped up.

Hey everyone, make sure you update your … checks notes … Apple power cord …

Mexican Marines

Sunday // Playa Cerritos, BCS

Mark Twain's use of a typewriter. I wonder if AI-writing is today's typewriter?

Steven Pressfield on going deep:

Everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is everywhere. Build a following. Establish a platform. Learn how to scam the system. In other words, do all the surface stuff and none of the real work it takes to actually produce something of value. The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something - the book you're writing, the album, the movie -and staying there for a long, long time.

What's the go with Mayor Humdinger? Is Foggy Bottom even a real township? Why does the Paw Patrol continue to rescue this evil man?

Tres es compañía (three frames of three humpback whales shot a few minutes ago in El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico)

Watched the sun set over the Pacific tonight as humpback whales came right up close to the shore so they could scratch their backs on the sand bars. What a time to be alive!

Wednesday frames

El Pescadero seafood stall

I heard you were into Jesus, so I got you some Jesus

For Britt’s 33rd birthday we went to CDMX, Mexico City, and painted the town pink.

Pro Tip: if you’re ever asked what the largest city in North America is, it’s not in the USA. It’s Mexico City.

To celebrate Britt’s birthday we took a walking food tour of Coyoacán in Mexico City with Sabores Mexico Food Tours. 10 points to our guide, Enya, for an excellent tour and secretly arranging a little birthday treat for Britt.

Freddie deBoer on SubStack:

"The 90s were better. They just were. I’m sorry, but it’s science."

In a world consumed by the idea of creating content, Burt Bacharach created the most evergreen content we've seen in recent times: "what the world needs now is love, sweet love."

I'm unsure how many more Om Malik blog posts I can read before I trade in my Canon EOS R5 for a Leica. Please stop taunting me, @Onmyom@mstdn.social :)