Global Timeslip PKD Webinar runs on zoom all day today. Like wack TV in your background! Yah, mon. Phil TV! John Shirley, Cody Goodfellow, and Rudy at 10:30 am PST (god willing / dog barking). www.philipkdickfest.com/telethon

I'm reading Pynchon's MASON & DIXON these days, VERY long, 70 sections, each a separate fantastic tale. (Smoaking pot with G. Washington, yes!) I'd avoided the tome for years as I "don't like" history. But now I do...vibrant, live, human, funny. Sugar, coffee, tobacco = wild gab.

Sunday!!!!! Global Time Slip!!! 1:30 PM EST/ 10:30 PST Cody Goodfellow hosts a Cyberpunk reunion with @rudytheelder.bsky.social and @johnshirley2024.bsky.social This one hour of 17 hour international Science Fiction and Philip K. Dick conference

I'm taking part in a global time-slip PK Dick festival, on Sunday, tomorrow, talking about cyberpunk, around 10:30 California time with John Shirley and Cody Goodfellow. www.philipkdickfest.com/telethon

Venice glass. Jimi Hendrix watch tower in the background.

Ad for daughter Isabel's jewelry. By Embry Rucker III. vimeo.com/1185328330?f...

Grave of Ezra pound. His 2 line poem --In the station 0f the Metro-- "The apparition of these faces in the crowd: / Petals on a wet, black bough".

Last three days in Venice ... so much more to see. Just love all the little bridges and crumbly walls and reflections in the water.

In Venice with Barb and my translator Daniele Brolli.

Dylan: "They say I shot a man named Grey / And took his wife to Italy / She inherited million bucks / And when she died the money came to me / I can't help it if I'm lucky."

Monumental buildings around the Italian Union square in Trieste. Huge cafe filled with sharp dressers from Italy and Slovenia. Had three wondrous meals in the fabled Caffe Sant Marco a few blocks away.

Riding a gondola! At last. Peaceful, and unnervingly wobbly. With Barb.

Undefinability Is Truth

Europe.

Venetian surfboard.

Wrought iron.

With Leonardo's truncated icosahedron! Yow!

Venice...on a little bridge over canal.

Flight

Artemis of a slight for Moon scheduled quite soon 3:30 California time on PBS www.youtube.com/live/08IOsxF...

The philosphers are throwing in the towel. Read talk by Australian sage David J. Chalmers. arxiv.org/abs/2303.07103 Within a decade, we may have robust systems with senses, embodiment, world models and self-models, recurrent processing, global workspace, and unified goals. They will be conscious.

Final "Surfer Girl." I ran it through a Photoshop/Lighroom add-on called Topaz. For denoise & sharpening. Topaz actually works better than Adobe for these tasks! Astoundingly clean. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

Chuckling over a remark by a Hungarian relative. A woman was flirting with him, and I asked if he was interested. Quoth he: "She vould like. But I don't vant." So concise.

I'm struck by the wit, plotting, and cross-referencing in our ongoing life stories. It's an objective property of reality, not an illusion. As a writer, I compare our synched world to a novel. Surely the *world* is better-written. Thus the clever touches. And we're in that book. Hooray!

Finally reading Pynchon's Mason and Dixon. It's up there with Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, A-List masterpieces. Photo of me with daughter Georgia and grandson Desmond on SF cable car yesterday. Heavenly.

Thanks for the happy birthdays! Bonus: Stephen Wolfram turned up the eve before the party. We talked philosohpy of computation. Says he: AI neural nets contain clots of incompressible computation. These multipotent clusters are linked, like supermoledules in an organism. Happy birthday, Rudy!

Thanks to my friends and family for a wonderful 80th birthday!

* (a) I'm using a physical tool for a task. I misplace it. (b) Later I randomly come across tthe tool. Joy. (c) I enter a blank unremembered Loser mode during which I apparently move the tool. (d) I never see the tool again. * Where is my head at in Loser mode? What am I doing? What am I thinking?

Ad for Rudy Jr.'s Monkeybrains, best internet access provider in San Francisco, with 30,000 customers! www.monkeybrains.net

Bruce Sterling gave me this shirt in memory of our curiously neglected 1994 masterpiece "Big Jelly". www.rudyrucker.com/completestor...

Hello world

Classic for California artist: the Surfer Girl. With a single radiating eye, and 60s flip hairdo. Ocean waves. At no point did I know where I was going; the work emerged from brush and paint, from canvas and eye. I dream while I'm awake. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

Song of the day. Working on my new painting. "Surfer Girl." music.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlcr...

Finished "Flower Power". Thought of flower garden with faces. Faces took over. Flower people. Thought of 60s and Flower Power. Me in my peaceful, leafy, sun-and-shade back yard—dreaming worldly bad news away. Painting took me five days. Gauzy on purpose. Harmony. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

DMT Surfer Girl, Draft Q#3

The artist about to be at work. With the day's paperwork done. And my car nearly well.

LLM aliens from the subdimensions...and a transreal vision of old Rudy's recent activities. Read the summary below. Or get the book www.rudyrucker.com/sqinks/

Graffiti art connected to the classic Forbidden City club, now gone. Siminar vibes in perhaps Li Po, Buddha, Embress Yee.

Bosch / Bruegel Hell scene? Or basket of thing-a-ma-bob doo-hickeys on sale on Grant Street? Thanks to my girlfriend Barb Ash, Photoshop maven, the image is substantially improved over than the ones I usually post.

Why is it so hard to exit Reddit if you open a Reddit page on your browser? IS is there a way?

"Flower Power" ver 2.

This curve may not be infinitely differentiable. That is to say, the third or fourth derivative may have a corner in it.

Today's tornado video. youtu.be/pbPqc2_HD1o?...

Spent day getting insurance money to fix car. Encuonters with bots. Was thinking of Katka's short-short "Before the Law." Guy spends life trying to get through thru courthouse gate. As he dies, the guard tells him "This gate was in fact built for you." www.kafka-online.info/before-the-l...

Moonrise. Dig the craters.

My Dorkbot talk on "Talking, Writing, Painting" went well. Somehow, tech wizards that we are, none of us managed to tape it. But here's a version of the talk with my images and notes. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2026/02...

Running wild in SF.

So made it past what we call a "Boss" in a video game. Out dancing with Carol Cee tonight.

Hanging in there for turning 80 in March. 80 is *not* a gimmie. Could have died in a freeway pile-up today. Escaped with a crushed passenger door.

"Talking, Writing, and Painting." Rudy speaks at Dorkbot event, 7 PM, Wed, Feb 25, at Monkeybrains, 933 Treat Ave between 22nd & 23rd, in the Mission. Selling museum-quality prints at show. Details: www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2026/02...