My name is Brandon. I hope to spark curiosity and build community with this site.

You'll find a bit of liberation theology, a bit of tech, some exporations of culture - whatever is on my mind at a given moment! I try not to avoid difficult conversations and my hope is that conversations like these will build inclusive healthy community that will change the world.

You can learn more about me here or by reading my User Manual.

Want to connect? Find me on or or ! (But feel free to just follow along the writing here if you'd prefer!)

Thoughts to Spark your Curiosity...

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on LUX by RosalΓ­a

Some brief thoughts on why you should give LUX by RosalΓ­a a listen.

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Cleaning Out My Closet

Robert shared about his music setup this weekend as well. It uses a combo of Roon and Qobuz and I appreciate his thoughts on not being a musical packrat! oglink: https://www.canneddragons.net/cleaning-out-my-closet/

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week notes 11-8-25

November is fully here and fall is coming to a close. Here's some of what I found interesting in the last week!

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Life as an average American right now | Tadaima.

I feel this. It's worse and or more complicated when friend equals family. Regardless this is an accurate summation of America right now. oglink: https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/life-as-an-average-american-right-now/

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my music workflow

I love music and how I engage with it is almost as important. This is how I've figured out to listen to the magic.

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week notes 1-11-25

It's been a couple of weeks...but I'm back!

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week notes 10-19-25

It was a busy weekend! We spent Friday downtown because my daughter had a teen event at an indie bookstore so we hung around at a local coffee shop with our son. On Saturday we spent the afternoon at the No Kings protest doing what needed doing. On Sunday we

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Analyzing the domains (and sites) of an authoritarian regime β€’ Cory Dransfeldt

Appreciate a lot what Cory has done here. This is an unprecedented time that demands to be documented. Things like this help that that process immensely. oglink: https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/analyzing-the-domains-and-sites-of-an-authoritarian-regime

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we are a christian nation? no.

Is the USA a Christian nation? History tells us the answer and it's clearly no, no matter what a Christian nationalist tells you.