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J Chaisson
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Author, blogger, music collector, cat wrangler. May contain trace amounts of sugar and caffeine. Books available at Smashwords/Draft2Digital!
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J Chaisson @jchaisson.bsky.social · Nov 10
Hi there! Welcome to BlueSky if you're new here! I'm a self-published writer of SFF genre books, a huge music nerd, and co-parent of those two ridiculous cats you see below.
You can find all my ebooks for only $2.99 or cheaper at Smashwords!
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Jon Chaisson
Jon Chaisson lives in San Francisco with his wife Amanda, several books, two precocious cats, and a ridiculously large music collection. He's the author of the Bridgetown Trilogy, published here at Sm...
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Duran Duran
Wire
Depeche Mode
Motion City Soundtrack
The Hu
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

KISS
They Might Be Giants
Billy Joel
Garth Brooks
Guns N' Roses
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to

R.E.M.
Tori Amos
The Beastie Boys
The Monkees
Iron & Wine
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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If you see this post an anime you love
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence admits to a year without mixtapes.
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A year without mixtapes
Alas, I did not have the time, nor the inclination, to make any mixtapes this year. I’m pretty sure I’ll still do my year-end playlist/mix, but other than that, I just never got around …
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November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is chilling.
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Chilling
Image from Laid Back Camp That is, feeling a bit cold lately. This is around the time of year when the temperature starts to dip in the Bay Area. Not quite the freezing cold of the Northeast that I…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence notes that the season of Christmas music has begun.
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And so it begins…
The above was the first Christmas song of the season to be heard at work the other day. Yes, I know Thanksgiving is still a week away, but this is actually right about on time for my store. The hol…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence catches up on music with Ritual Howls.
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Catching up on music with…Ritual Howls
I’ve said it before, I do love how the current generations of bands have decided to learn from 80s post-punk these days, and Detroit’s Ritual Howls has chosen to latch themselves specif…
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown lets the holidays commence.
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Let the holidays commence
Image from The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity It’s halfway through November (already??), which means that Q4 and the Holiday Season is pretty much in full swing. The managers have alread…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
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How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
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November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence wishes he was as cool as Calvin.
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I wish I was as cool as Calvin
I was introduced to Too Much Joy by my friend Chris back in 1990 when the major label reissue of their second album Son of Sam I Am dropped, and I was immediately hooked. At that point in time I wa…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown talks about rank.
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I’ll be honest…
I think one of the biggest things I’m nervous about with Theadia is not the dog fights, nor is it the physics of flight (both air and space) or even the science of how wormholes work. I&#8217…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown talks about 750Words and seven or eight things.
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Seven or eight things
One of the hardest parts of wanting to keep a daily habit of writing at 750Words (especially after a long hiatus) is trying to come up with something to write about in the first place. Some days I&…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence catches up on music with KMFDM.
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Catching up on music with… KMFDM
I do have a soft spot (heh) for industrial music. I don’t listen to it all that often, but I’ve loved it since I first heard those dance beats, clanky percussion and crunchy guitars in …
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November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence catches up on more new music!
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Catching up on music with… Heartworms
The other day on the way back from Costco we’d heard her single “Retributions of an Awful Life” from her 2023 EP A Comforting Notion and it occurred to me that she’s definit…
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November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is filling in the gaps.
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Filling in the gaps
I am now at the point in Theadia where I have to visit all the WRITE THIS LATER gaps and…well, write them. Thankfully, I planned ahead of time during this last reread/revision, where I wrote …
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November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is in that middle ground again.
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In that middle ground again
It’s been a rough couple of weeks here at the New Digs. There’s been a bit of drama at the Day Job that I’ve been juggling, not to mention the rise in customer volume considering …
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October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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so wonderful when that spark of a novel idea hits you and it all clicks into place and you think THATS THE ONE. mostly because you cant force it. just have to wait and then eventually the timeline says 'here you go, heres a diamond that was floating by.' anyway, caught a diamond today. very exciting
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence catches up on some more music.
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Catching up on music with…
…a number of things lately! As always, my primary listening time has been during my writing sessions, and considering my current project is a space opera with an ensemble cast, I need a lot o…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is ready to take the next step in finishing this project.
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And now for the next step…
I am just a few short(ish) chapters away from completing this current revision of Theadia, which means two things. One, my next step in completing this novel is to go back again and fill in all the…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...
DAICON III & IV Opening Animation -Domesday Duplicator Remaster] : hideaki anno : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Deinterlaced & remastered version of the original Laserdisc for Daicon IV & III.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Today's Walk in Silence remembers it had its MTV.
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I Had My MTV
I’ll freely admit that I’m firmly on the Gen-Xer side of ‘remembering MTV back when it played music videos’. We’re talking the early 80s here, back when my family sign…
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October 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Today's Walk in Silence catches up on music with some Zappa.
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Catching up on music with….Frank Zappa??
For me, Frank Zappa is up there with the Grateful Dead, Phish, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and his infinite number of projects, and other bands and musicians that many of my friends in college loved an…
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October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown talks about pumpkin patches and mystery shows...
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Driving past the pumpkin patches…
For those familiar with the British mystery show Midsomer Murders, the always enjoyable series loves to occasionally set its whodunit episode at a church fair, a festival, or some kind of social ga…
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October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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"achillean" always amuses me as a descriptor because does it mean books about gay men being gay or does it mean more like oh you shot me in the leg you shot me in the fucking leg you fuck why would you do that, that's my goddamn ankle, my one weak spot, now I'm going to die you asshole
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Today's Walk in Silence has been listening to Automatic.
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Catching up on music with… Automatic
This band has been around for a bit now and gotten some play on KEXP (some years ago they did a great cover of Delta 5’s “Mind Your Own Business”), but it’s their new releas…
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October 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Today's Welcome to Bridgetown combats a stressful couple of weeks with catching up on reading manga.
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It’s been a strange few weeks…
Rintaro from The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity …most of which I won’t go into as it’s something that should stay personal, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say it&#8…
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October 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM