#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge For January 3 we go to one of the singles off of the Inbred EP with Crush. It's a staple on her live sets: www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQH...

#MusicThroughYears #MusicCahllenge 1/3 - Love Forgotten Love - Aurora www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPUF...

#MusicThroughYears #MusicChallenge 1/2 - Health High Pressure Dave - HEALTH www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Cd...

Up for a singing challenge? Check out the latest post on the Autistic Muse, where I introduce the Imperfect Singers Club: theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/introducti... #musicsky

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge For January 2nd we head to Ethel Cain's first project of 2025, Perverts. This is Housofpsychoticwomn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsb...

#MusicThroughYears #MusicChallenge 1/1 - Happiness Dog Days Are Over - Florence + the Machine "happiness hit her like a train on a track..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOy...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge It's been a little while since I took part in one of these (my last one being in May 2025) so let's change that. For January I'm tackling an artist that took me by storm last year: Ethel Cain. First up, A House in Nebraska: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT7T...

Happy new year! May 2026 be filled with all the things you love or comfort you, whatever those may be.

There's a new post out on the Autistic Muse! In it, I talk about the Pantone Color of the Year and what I think would be a better color. Link: open.substack.com/pub/theautis...

Yesterday on Substack I shared my 2026 word: creativity. I think it's essential for survival in this messed up, shook up world. What is your 2026 word, if you have one?

Thursday blog post (which also happens to land on my mother's birthday), which is a poem addressed to the people whom society deems to be a 'misfit': theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/ode-to-the...

Wednesday blog post, where I talk about the song "Nettles" by Ethel Cain and the deepness of the lyrics in it. theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/nettles?r=...

Yesterday I reworked the front page of the Muse so that the "best of" categories are closer to the top, so you can better access the stuff that I think are the best written. My about page also has these articles linked. Go check it out! theautisticmuse.substack.com

I am definitely in a #poetry mood today. This here is an aubade - a dawn poem that greets the morning while lamenting the end of the night.

Stiff neck prevails in the morning—jarring joint pops needed to feel free. #poetry #haikufeels

I'll probably have something up on the Autistic Muse today, but first, a nice silly prompt I saw on Substack the other day: Write an absurd 75 word bio for yourself.

The maples are bare— their leaves rustle in the air before the wind storm #haiku #haikufeels

I can definitely subscribe to the idea of killing AI. They have not and will not be able to experience things like a human can.

A friend of mine from high school is part of the production crew for Blue Murder, a neo-noir action film. The crew is looking for funding to make this a reality. Check out the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/blu...

On Sunday, the Autistic Muse will be celebrating two years of existence! I have rounded up the posts that I think were the best. You can check the posts out here: theautisticmuse.substack.com/t/best-of-ye...

It's been a while since I posted here, but I do have some new content on the Muse. Today, I posted about a concert I saw a few weeks ago. theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/the-willou... Music is one of the things that stimulate me.

Thursday blog post, involving a poem after rereading a post I wrote about a year ago on order and chaos: theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/the-journe...

Thursday blog post (after over a month - thanks writer's block!) where I write a letter for the #DearAnne campaign: theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/dearanne-w...

Friday blog post, where I share a part of how my creative process works, and some of the obstacles that get in the way of producing a work of fiction: theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/tasting-th...

In your opinion, what country is producing the best music right now? #musicsky

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 15 - Rush Also on the same album as yesterday's pick (Hemispheres), Circumstances is my favorite Rush track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx2g...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 14 - Rush "And the trees are all kept equal - by hatchet, axe, and saw" In second place on my favorite Rush song list is The Trees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDM8...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 13 - Rush This was once my favorite song out of the Rush catalog, but after listening to the Hemispheres album, this has fallen to 3rd. Still a great song, though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy7c...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 12 - Rush The Morse Code opening makes this instrumental one of most recognizable songs in the rock canon. Entering in at number 4 on my top Rush song list is YYZ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVT...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 11 - Rush "Imagine a time, when it all began..." Taking spot 5 in my all-time Rush song list is a song commemorating the Manhattan Project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhE8...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 10 - Rush At the height of Rush's foray into synthesizers is this gem, which opens the Hold Your Fire album - Force Ten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS1l...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 9 - Rush "Nowhere is the dreamer, or the misfit so alone..." Some of the best lyrics by Neil Peart can be found on Subdivisions, the opening track for Signals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYd...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 8 - Rush The final track off of Grace Under Pressure, Between the Wheels, is an underrated gem. It was locked in the vaults after the GUP tour, only returning to the setlist for the R30 tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj1e...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 7 - Rush This song is the title track for the Farewell to Kings album. A classic guitar is utilized for the intro, before opening up into a rocking number. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf0q...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 6 - Rush Witch Hunt opens up my top 10 for Rush. I really like the intro part to this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wavK...

Tuesday blog post, which is more of a recipe than an actual blog post: theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/revenge-of...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 5 - Rush "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..." Great words to follow in life. Freewill occupies the 11th spot in my favorite Rush song list: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urBp...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 4 - Rush Perhaps Rush's best known track, Tom Sawyer opens the seminal Moving Pictures album and occupies spot 12 on the countdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLB...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 3 - Rush "When the ebbing tide retreats..." I really like the lyrics on this one (well, I like most of Rush's lyrics, but this is one of the special ones). In P13, we have Natural Science! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xe3...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 2 - Rush On spot 14 of my countdown of top Rush songs is a track that spans an entire album side and truly cemented Rush as a progressive rock band - 2112! youtu.be/w5jwxrTqoEA?...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 1 Another month, another band. I'll tackle the band that has the most plays on my Last FM account, which is Rush! We'll start the top 15 countdown with a track from Grace Under Pressure: The Body Electric. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Dj...

Friday blog post, where I talk about a talk hosted by CASY Sparks last week regarding AI and autism diagnosis: theautisticmuse.substack.com/p/ai-and-aut...

Question that’s popped into my head: how feasible would it be to set up a network of citizen run radar stations that can be used for weather observations/predictions in the case the NWS goes completely private?

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 15 - Oasis At long last we make it to the pinnacle - number 1. Sure, it might be a predictable pick, but it's for good reason. Sing this at any UK pub and everyone will sing with ya. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzr...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 14 - Oasis In spot 2 we have my favorite off of the debut album - Shakermaker. It has a psychedelic feel to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6-K...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 13 - Oasis Into the top 3 now, and entering in at the number 3 spot is the final single that the band made before breaking up in 2009. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mXW...

Tomorrow I'll be attending a session by the Cultural Autism Studies at Yale (CASY) group on the use of AI in the autism diagnosis process. It will be quite interesting, I think. Link to the event: www.meetup.com/projectcasy/...

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Day 12 - Oasis "She's not anyone..." Written by Liam, "Songbird" is my favorite song off of Heathen Chemistry. You can definitely tell that this song has a strong Beatles influence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YU9...

I recently hit the 100 sub mark on the Autistic Muse, which is crazy. A small lecture hall filled with my subscribers... as a little gift from me, I did my first voiceover of an article there, which is my most recent. Go check it out!

Say it with me… “There is NO Autism Epidemic!” Autistic People have always been here! It’s the criteria and understanding (causing more of us to be recognized) that has changed!