In Havana, Cuba, Julien Cohen and friends make music with the bare essentials, singing Buena Vista Social Club’s “Chan Chan.” On his channel, Lopez also does a lovely cover of Natalia Lafourcade’s “Tu si Sabes Quererme.” Just sayin.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzm_...

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

#inkdrawing black ink and ballpoint pen (from my bedtime drawing series). I did these when I was weaning myself from bedtime scrolling. It worked pretty well, but I need to do this again . . .

The rise-and-fall-of-civilization stories are told by the elites. But maybe their ruination is not all that bad for everyone . . . aeon.co/essays/the-g...

I'm contemplating "silences" (as a writer) and exploring what is for me a "new" medium, #gouache (as an artist) in my latest issue of Eulipion Outpost: jeanvengua.substack.com/p/exploring-... #art #memoir #culture

Massive demonstration denouncing corruption in the #Philippines. ( #Rappler ) www.rappler.com/philippines/...

Let's try this again... Here's the #sigil I devised for the #autumn #equinox. It will be part of the #magick included in my post at Vraicking on Monday. Same deal as the #asemic writing in my Needful Magic or Name series - you are welcome to use this in your own #art or #magic work.

A new #Asemic piece that just popped out while working on material for this months #newsletter. I try to vary many #patterns so I don’t duplicate and i think I’ve achieved that. Maybe… #Art #Dada #cartoon #drawing #Illustration #weirdart #absurd #2dart #experimentalcomix #InkArt

birds eye view of asemic foliage https://drajmarsh.bitbucket.io/tree3d.html and https://drajmarsh.bitbucket.io/tree3d.html

vraic.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/h... - Three more pages released in the #zine. #asemic #abstractcomics #visualpoetry #vispo #poetrycomics #freestuff #zines

Behind the Scenes I've got a new post on Substack: Behind the scenes, there is research, organizing, scanning, and filing. Also: Catalina Africa, Steve Silver, Kathryn Vercillo, Kirk Gordon; Open Reel Ensemble, and Shimon Hoshino.

New article, "Under Pressure" in Eulipion Outpost: Dad writes a May Day letter revealing his “disgust” at labor conditions on an MSTS ship in 1959. Also, #Filipino #labor strikes, history, art, and music. Focus on intersections of history, art, culture: jeanvengua.substack.com/p/under-pres...

ICYMI, I'm creating a directory of FilAm professionals! Please share and feel free to fill out the form! forms.gle/c1Z9vNHyqnRL...

You and I are richer than Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. because we can afford not to polish the boots of the authoritarian clown.

⚡ Over 110,000 lightning strikes during the month of August sparked 534 lightning-caused wildfires—yet only 5 (1%) grew beyond 10 acres. CAL FIRE continues to meet its goal of containing 95% of fires to 10 acres or less.

Since childhood, I’ve had a pretty dysfunctional relationship with money and promotional or performative situations. Check out my latest post about selling art online: “A Rigged System.” substack.com/home/post/p-... #artsales #culture #art #music

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Small acrylic painting on wood "Sploosh 2025." I haven't painted in acrylics for several years now. But I saw an old painting I had started long ago on a recycled panel I found at Good Will. I felt the previous version was "timid," and decided to paint over it--just had fun with it.

Chthulhuscene #Asemic. And kind of how I'm feeling today. . . monstrous.

Thousands of homes are under evacuation orders and warnings because of wildfires in Northern California wine country and in central Oregon.

Eulipion Outpost 204 is up: featuring Simeon Doria Arroyo's Letters to Victorio A. Velasco. Also, Goodbye, Moby Dick; ArchipelagoSeattle, SF Art Institute Archives, Bitter Melon Bindery, Cloud Factory Collective; Dept. of Homeland Inspiration, & Nina Simone. jeanvengua.substack.com/p/yours-for-...

"Tax Bird," #ink drawing on paper.

A friend of mine, Alex, writes about his experience with Agent Orange: www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/how... #vietnamwar #agentorange #veterans

The most productive people I know don't use productivity systems...

Sketchbook Doodle 7/30/2025

Sketchbook doodle 6/2025

#Graphite and colored pencil on paper. #abstractart #surrealism

A post from peace activist Kazu Haga: kazuhaga.substack.com/p/who-deserv...

Brion Gysin, Untitled, 1959

Chill. Just chill . . . breathe

OK, I managed to restore the About page. But now all the pages in the menu are messed up. The instructions I found online are not working (or I'm reading them wrong?) and this is taking me all day.

I started my day with the intent to relax and do some writing, and make some art. Then went to my #Wordpress website, thinking to make minor changes and accidentally deleted my About page (apparently not retrievable) and messed up the menu. Spent the afternoon troubleshooting. Not relaxing.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations: Editors need a good laugh once in awhile, LOL: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

"Violence can never heal the harm that has been done." ~Kazu Haga

Serpent Agave Asemic. The plant itself is larger than me.

An old, quick sketch from the 1990s. But I've always liked it.

Happy #Caturday. This from my favorite local coffee shop, East Village Cafe.

Loving the 🤡 stamp on the verso of this post card from Alison Knowles to George Maciunas. Stamps as emojis to set the tone for a given communication. #scoresproject #arthistory #fluxus #academicsky #booksky #openaccess #mailart www.getty.edu/publications...

The Editor of Texts As an "editor" of texts, I recently replied to a post by a friend about the issue of retaining two spaces after a period--or not, as prescribed by the Chicago Style Manual No. 17. I weighed in on that, favoring the single space because it is now considered "official." Someone…

The purposeful neglect of the Vaillancourt Fountain is shameful. I stand by what I said in 2013: tofuartsf.blogspot.com/2013/03/vail...

Bedtime doodlebugs, aka "Girl and Kat." Ink drawing by moi.

A lovely #collaboration w/ Lubimyr Timkiv (of #Ukraine 🤗) about, I believe, the lack of intelligence in the Lump & Poopin Admins.) It features elements of #stamp, #text & #collage. #DigitalArt #visualart #Art #Dada #absurd #weirdart #assemblage #mixedmedia #SurrealArt #popart #BlueSkyArt

A friend gave me big sheets of old Arches watercolor paper. After doing mostly small art for several years, I decided to try doing something larger, though I have no room in this cottage for this kind of thing. Oh, well. It felt good to stretch out, anyway. Berry Ink #Asemic, 24 x 22 in.

Mail Art / Arte Povera In my latest issue of Eulipion Outpost, I write about Arte Povera. Some aspects of mail art also relate to that art movement. I wrote the following in a previous issue of Eulipion Outpost, but only recently thought of it in terms of Arte Povera: Receiving all this…

RQ Code. . . . #asemicwriting #brushpen

No. 197, “State of Flow“ is up on Eulipion Outpost. In which I add a postscript to “Surf City Tomboy“ and consider #art and flow states. Also, links to artist resources, #artists and art Substackers, and a musician. jeanvengua.substack.com/p/state-of-f...

Homo Deus Meets the #Dhamma: Information Diet, #AI & the Nexus of Awakening | #YuvalNoahHarari Q&A #meditation #clearmountainmonastery www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ol...

#Inkdrawing #ballpoint from 2022 on Shizen paper.

Neat coastal fog pattern caused by “otter eddy” offshore Moss Landing this morning. This shallow cyclonic eddy is caused by northwest winds and complex terrain, and spins a vortex of stratus over Monterey Bay roughly four out of every five days all summer. #CAwx