Bill Pearse

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• No more the mystery

  By Bill Pearse on March 11, 2023 • ( 60 )

  

  Automating music discovery through algorithms has forever changed the way we learn about and consume new music. But have we lost something precious along the way? I moved to Seattle in the summer of ’96 and left just after a… Read More ›

• Letting go of Jon Cook

  By Bill Pearse on March 9, 2023 • ( 19 )

  

  In 1996 I didn’t know what to do there, I just knew I had to be on the internet. There was a little internet cafe around the corner from my apartment on Broadway, Seattle’s hip, gay neighborhood I’d just moved… Read More ›

• Brief candles

  By Bill Pearse on March 8, 2023 • ( 24 )

  

  Leaving Utah last September was one of the saddest times of my life, saying goodbye to our daughter Lily. That little airport in the middle of nowhere, so desolate. Sitting in the lobby waiting for the airport workers to open… Read More ›

• World Funny Shortage Getting Serious

  By Bill Pearse on March 6, 2023 • ( 5 )

  Comedy writer Axel Loffmann thought it was just him. Maybe he was going through a dry period. But when Loffmann asked around the comedy community (… World Funny Shortage Getting Serious

• Midwinter break

  By Bill Pearse on February 23, 2023 • ( 26 )

  

  Literally everyone standing in line is on their phone. It said the wait time was 85 minutes but when we got halfway through they said it would be longer, that’s all they said. And when Charlotte checked the wait time… Read More ›

• The signet pinky ring went missing

  By Bill Pearse on February 16, 2023 • ( 19 )

  

  I had to let go of the ring. The ring was gone. The ring came off when I removed my work gloves, fell to the ground, a garden bed. The ring lay unnoticed for a time on its side. The… Read More ›

• Middle-age, Death is at the foot of your bed

  By Bill Pearse on February 5, 2023 • ( 13 )

  

  You stand for a moment fitting your pack and wonder, is it too late for me to set out? The dream metaphor is this: I’m busy packing, gathering my things at the car. I have the lift gate open and… Read More ›

• Animal Vegetable

  By Bill Pearse on February 2, 2023 • ( 14 )

  Was it Kafka who said that we are most human when admittedly animals? I can’t remember. The elephant would.  We give each other pet names and share … Animal Vegetable

• Prompting debate

  By Bill Pearse on January 31, 2023 • ( 41 )

  

  Surely there must be a scale that ranks our resistance to technology from fully resistant (1 – won’t use it) to no resistance (10 – fully embraced it). I think I’m now a “6,” techno curious.

• Orchid piece

  By Bill Pearse on January 25, 2023 • ( 9 )

  

  In the dark, in the window, in its tiny pot the orchid grows. The angles and edges we hardly notice while the orchid works to inhabit its small space. And for us no different, the quiet stirrings, the browned leaves,… Read More ›

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