https://sleepingbasementcat.github.io/y8s/a blog about creating, covering art, writing, and music. 2026-08-23T17:12:30-04:00 your_full_name https://sleepingbasementcat.github.io/y8s/ Jekyll © 2026 your_full_name /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-07-30T00:00:00-04:00 2026-07-30T00:00:00-04:00 https://sleepingbasementcat.github.io/y8s/posts/sleepingbasementcat/ your_full_name

I once went by the handle sleepingbasementcat. I took the name after the cat we had, once found sleeping in the basement of our house, looking peaceful and adorable. I used the handle for some of the music I was making at the time. I was messing around with tapes (yes, cassette tapes), sampling, mangling, chopping and screwing up sounds and passing them on to a friend who would layer more stuff...

2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00 2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00 https://sleepingbasementcat.github.io/y8s/posts/getting-steps-in/ your_full_name

I’m posting this a little later than I’d like, since I had committed to every Thursday. The idea for this came to me late, and I only started writing it out on Thursday evening. I went for a walk the other day. I hadn’t been out at all for 8 or so hours, maybe more. I had spent the entire day staring at the old nightmare rectangle, morning to evening. So I went for a walk. It had been raini...

2026-07-16T00:00:00-04:00 2026-07-16T00:00:00-04:00 https://sleepingbasementcat.github.io/y8s/posts/holding-pattern/ your_full_name

This week has been quite a lot I’m feeling all mush brained after taking on a new role at work and the ensuing whirlwind week of training, meeting new people, and taking on a completely new work flow. So here’s a song I’ve been listening to a lot lately. Something about Dinah’s smokey tremolo, the cool trailing snare, ponderous bass, with the light guitar, and airy strings and vocals… The ...

2026-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 2026-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 https://sleepingbasementcat.github.io/y8s/posts/safe-boot/ your_full_name

I have loved cyberpunk for a long time. I’ve loved cyberpunk ever since I read William Gibson’s Neuromancer in my early teens. I read it before Burning Chrome, and before I knew it was a part of a trilogy. Then I think I managed to read Mona Lisa Overdrive before Count Zero and still somehow made sense of it all. I don’t know. I was a crazy mixed up kid, but all I knew was this author was doin...

2026-07-02T00:00:00-04:00 2026-07-02T00:00:00-04:00 https://sleepingbasementcat.github.io/y8s/posts/writing-problem/ your_full_name

I haven’t really written much of anything since 2013. I am embarrassed to say that I haven’t really done much in the way of creative writing in 13 years. I used to write all the time. Mostly in spare moments, mostly odd, tortured lines of poetry that I would revise and revise again. I wrote some short stories that I never felt I got quite right. I had prepared a collection of poetry that I tho...