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David Alexander McDonald

@davidam.bsky.social
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AKA Steven E. McDonald, writer. Musician, writer, poet mentored by Michael Harnett, mostly alone, tired and now here. Dismayed at watching the country that fought fascism to an end bowing down to fascism at home.

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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Before the end of Hotelia 2026 I gave up on Cakewalk Sonar, which had so many things going wrong, and spent my last time there working on a new piece in Reaper, using some new plugins. Well...the learning curve caught me, resulting in me having to recreate two tracks.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
.....it's been called "magnificent," "intelligent," and "written by a friend of mine." And it's a fairly short read, too!
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's Bandcamp Friday again, the day when artists on the site get most of the revenue from sales. Yes, I'm noting that I have music for sale, including this. davidalexandermcdonald.bandcamp.com/album/hoteli...
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Hotelia 2025, by David Alexander McDonald
3 track album
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Aside from the rough recovery this week, my HP laptop went down with a hard drive issue. So, that needs to be dealt with before I tackle the studio setup and get to mixing.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
More Hotelia 2026.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Well, that's Hotelia 2026 wrapped up, an event even more queer coded than the original. I was last man out, young Basil (who did the collage wall) preceding me by only a few hours. My plan to write in the mornings went sideways, alas, and I only produced two poems this year.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hotelia 2026 is running now and we're about to ramp into the weekend when *everything* goes Barmy Army. You can also pick up my Hotelia 2025 EP at DavidAlexanderMcDonald.bandcamp.com for all of $3. Or get all of my work there!
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's very likely the end of SpaceX. Musk needed to be completely ringfenced from the company, but that effort failed when he forced the stock swap for xAI.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Of course, as a project goes operatic in scale my brain tries to crash me emotionally.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Wrestling with the big thing, a sudden idea that got inflated to giant size but not by me.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Miami Loco 2026. Compersion performing at 411Space despite issues with their van requiring a rescue. Once again, a great show. I have a video but it's too long. Boo.
Compersion at 411Space in Miami, AZ.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Fatigo on the main stage...and the UFO!
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Miami Loco 2026. Miami and Globe are side by side mining towns in Arizona. I was screwing up with video, so this is abrupt and missing a pump -- the one actually making the *putt* sound.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Miami Loco 2016, In Miami, Arizona.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Miami Loco 2016. I played music -- using guitar and effects pedals for the first time in one of these -- read a short story, and performed poetry, which accidentally themed itself (work written in Ireland, though I did get two clown poems in.)
Cleopache reading in front of Ken Boe's Whiptych Diptych painting. Foreground is a Vic Void musical sculpture.Looking south from the Park, along Sullivan Street.The park on Sullivan Street, Miami, Arizona.  A rather limp rock band was trying to organize themselves.On Sullivan Street. Saw my own shadow, so that's six more weeks of hermitude.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
That would be "See You On The Other Side" by Brian Briggs (actually the late John Holbrook, who fell backwards into being Bearsville's best engineer.) Heard it on KCRW, where it became a radio hit. It took *five years* to track it down. youtu.be/UhM7B27SMvg?...
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See You on the Other Side
YouTube video by Brian Briggs - Topic
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Here we go again. I'm set to read again, as well as performing experimental music behind Ken Boe and in conjunction with others at 411 Space.
Poster for Miami Loco in Miami, Arizona from April 17th to 19th, 2026. Art, music, poetry and lots more.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Post something random or you'll have an awful April.
In the bathroom of Artemezia Foundation in Bisbee, AZ.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm not normally a fall risk, honestly. But when the toe of my boot goes under a pipe when I'm paying attention to laundry it's 90% certain I'm going down in the most ungainly manner possible. Fortunately I do know how to fall...unfortunately it was an awkward spot to land, and gravelly.
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a man is jumping in the air in a living room while holding a baby .
ALT: a man is jumping in the air in a living room while holding a baby .
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hope rises. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora
The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
But people facing down the snake in the grass at a church are guilty of civil rights felonies. A picture of American hypocrisy right here.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’m back after a rather dull adventure to Sierra Vista. It should have been a six hour round trip but ended up as a thirteen hour slog as multiple transportation operations failed when the return trip was triggered. This includes Uber and Lyft and all of the medical transports. 1/2
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Now to get some work done.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
And now I’m back on Adderall as well as Depakote and, man, the difference. However, as when I originally started years ago (decades!) — in my forties — an immediate result was a bout of hyperfocus. Not as sustained as I used to have, though, as I’m a Crusty Old. This is also timed release.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
So, yeah, first there was the medication change, putting me back on Depakote, then a second change to increase the dosage. The idea is to reestablish my baseline and stop me from crashing as badly as I do. What it's actually done is reactivate the full range of my triple cycle....
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a cat is walking down a hallway next to a door with a window .
Alt: A cat with the zoomies in a hallway, bouncing off the walls
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Goddamnit. Transportation has screwed up even more than usual. Now I can't even get a human on the line.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This sort of response needs to be thrown in the faces of the live maggots (bots and troll farmers aren't worth the effort.) Also point out that Fuckwit Mussolini keeps posting shite that depicts him as a king...one that pours shit over Americans. These fools are epically bad at gaslighting.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Good deal for some lucky person!
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I love my people.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Bisbee, staying weird, isn't doing No Kings on the 18th but on the 17th as the Bisbee 1000 Stair Climb takes over the crumbling hills of Old Bisbee on the 18th. I think climbers should carry No Kings signs, frankly.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I've known Sandy for over fifty years. I nearly married her former roommate before the universe knocked sense into me.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'm in an odd mental space. Not sure which setup will be used on Saturday, my birthday is tomorrow (and as always, no gifts as such -- gift cards etc are welcome, though, as I need new bits and pieces), I'm up to three dives in the Hyperbaric Oxygen chamber... 1/2
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I get to spend two hours a day for the next two months at two atmospheres of pressure, equivalent to being 333 feet deep in water. The choices to amuse me...a movie, or sleep. If sleep they wake you every thirty minutes.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
*deep sea diver sounds*
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a cartoon drawing of a machine with a green light on it
Alt: anine depicting a hyperbaric chamber full of fluid
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The true pattern of evil starts to come clear. "Get 'em out by Friday!" therealdeal.com/chicago/2025...
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Inside real estate fight that led to South Shore immigration raid
City of Chicago inspected the troubled 130-unit apartment complex two weeks before massive federal operation on Chicago’s South Side.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
It’s Bandcamp Friday again, so here’s a pitch. Encourage me to get workin’ on ARTLAB3! davidalexandermcdonald.bandcamp.com/album/artlab2
davidalexandermcdonald.bandcamp.com
ArtLab2, by David Alexander McDonald
10 track album
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This is just a locally depressing weekend. We've had the sort of rain Southern AZ was needing but while most areas weathered it Globe-Miami was hammered, affecting numerous businesses and damaging art galleries and performance spaces in Miami itself. Numerous works were destroyed by water.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Rum Mum.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I finally pushed myself into getting my agoraphobic arse out to get an x-ray and labs done and promptly got rained on at the bus stop. Once on the bus the rain flooded down, so I missed my stop (I couldn't see it coming up and the driver was focused on staying on the road.) Grand tour of Bisbee, AZ.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Do Not Return
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corpsepaint boothoughts @allwrongthink.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
someone should go pick it up pick it up pick it up pick it up
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Very much this. Disney has a bunch of releases coming in theaters, on PVOD and disc, and on streaming. Burn them. Remind them of what happened to Target when they knelt and licked the boot.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Fallon's next. Disney basically rolled over and presented their assholes at speed to be buggered by Trump. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments
Nexstar, one of the biggest owners o US f TV stations in, said will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel's late night show due to the host's Charlie Kirk remarks
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My AZ CD7 ballot is in the mail. Hopefully the 23rd won't bring disappointment.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Jericho Of Scotland Yard.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Sierra Vista Mall, Arizona...RIP
Sierra Vista Mall sprouts a Spirit Halloween sign.
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David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I think I'm going to step away from social media and news for at least a few hours.
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DigiDoggi @digidoggi.tv · 10/09/2025
Charlie KIrk believed that empathy was a "new concept" that shouldn't exist, so anyone who expresses condolences for him is being VERY disrespectful to his beliefs right now. please keep him out of your thoughts as he begins his transition into worm food. thank you
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