Tag: Website

bookmark_borderVanity mugs

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This site first launched in January 2008, going live with a very primitive design coded directly in Windows Notepad. I decided recently to have some custom coffee mugs made in recognition of this fact – after the Live at Lost Art Open Mic LP, why shouldn't I continue to treat myself? The design, simple as it is, recalls this website's original 2008 look, with its original logo and tagline.

The mugs were ordered through VistaPrint, the same company I've used for my business cards. While the print quality has been just fine for both types of media, I'm still interested in finding a local outfit I can work with directly for advertising and merchandise. If anyone reading this has a suggestion, and actual experience working with said outfit, please reach out to me and let me know.

All material on this page is © 2026 Peter Orozco (all rights reserved).

bookmark_border2025 recap and plans for 2026

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Now that the new year is officially underway, it's time for my annual recap of the past year and confirmation of plans for the upcoming twelve months. 2025 saw a grand total of thirty-one blog posts, the first of them presenting a trio of ticket stubs for the former Capri Theatre in Dallas, and the final one picturing the ascent of the Bank of America building in downtown Dallas ascending into the morning fog. My original plan for the year was to publish blog updates weekly, a goal which was definitely attainable, but one which I ultimately fell short of meeting. The reasons for this are varied, but in short they had to do with time requirements involved for multiple deeply researched posts, outside commitments, and, by the latter part of the year, personal considerations outside the scope of this blog. I stopped work almost entirely for over a month late in 2025, and between October and December, only three blog posts were made, two of them being very low effort. I started off the year stronger than I finished it.

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bookmark_borderAI-composed spam in my blog’s comments

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So-called "Artificial Intelligence," or AI, is insinuating itself into every aspect of our lives these days. This increasing proliferation of computer generated content (i.e., slop) is largely at the behest of huge corporations who have spent billions gathering personal data via online tracking, social media, cell phones, and an increasing number of so-called "smart" devices. Much of the data used to train AI models has been taken without permission from creatives and put toward the aim of generating an avalanche of artificially created content. This content then finds its way into advertisements, apps, services marketed to replace human creators, and, naturally, various types of spam. And that spam is increasingly finding its way onto online blog posts. Continue reading "AI-composed spam in my blog’s comments"

bookmark_border2024 recap and looking ahead to 2025

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2024 was a bit of a mixed bag as far as this site is concerned. I started out pretty strong, lost focus somewhat, and worked to bring things back together at the end. All told, a total of twenty-eight blog posts made it to publication, along with thirteen album comparisons and (barely) four road trip galleries. I'm going to reflect a bit on what I was able to accomplish and on the areas in which I was lacking.

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bookmark_borderUpdate concerning future and ongoing projects

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I tend to always have multiple things going on creatively, with as many as five or six projects in progress at one time in various stages of completeness. As a result, new material on this site tends to go up in spurts, with large amounts of content being added all at once as a project is completed. Even this blog is usually updated in spurts, which several entries being edited simultaneously and ultimately posted in groups of two or three, all of them post-dated to go live at a later date. This entry here is no exception. But there's a lot of other work going on in the background for which these semi-regular blog posts are biding time.

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