Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: January 2024

  • 53

    I am fifty-three today. 53 is a weird number. It’s a prime number, so I can’t play the usual games like “I’m exactly twice as old as when I ____”. It’s not a nice round number age-wise, but now I’m old enough and this blog is old enough that I’m twice as old as when…

  • New Album

    I released my first album yesterday. Yes, album. And it’s not spoken word or audio book or anything else. It’s a first attempt at creating music and releasing it into the world. The album (more of an EP really) is titled Ø. It’s five songs of ambient drone music, and just a hair over 30…

  • NYE, MKE, CA1

    Happy new year. I managed to catch a cold on the way back home, so I’m running at diminished capacity for the day. S has the same thing and she’s about a day ahead of me on the symptoms, which means this should be 75% clear by tomorrow. The Milwaukee half of the trip was…