Vaguely halftone black-and-white portrait photo of an infant with eyes glancing off toward the right and mouth pursed as if in consternation.

The unsupported use case of Bix Frankonis’ disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.

Now

  • Reading all the time (gift me ebooks)

  • Blogging but stalled on restoring two decades of posts

  • Fatiguing and in autistic burnout

  • Supporting revived use of the term “social murder”

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Identities

  • Agnostic

  • Antifascist

  • Antiracist (aspirationally)

  • Aromantic

  • Celibate

  • Cisgender (he/him)

  • Introverted

  • Mediocre

  • Single

  • Straight

  • White

Impairments

  • Aphantasia

  • Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder

  • Autism spectrum disorder

  • Chronic adjustment disorder

  • Developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia)

  • Generalized anxiety disorder

  • Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder

  • Pathological demand avoidance

  • Rejection sensitive dysphoria

  • Sensory processing disorder

  • Severely deficient autobiographical memory

Worries

  • Climate crisis

  • Rising fascism

  • Increasing disability

  • Eventual poverty

  • Inevitable death

Sites

Past

  • Hands Off! the Net (mid-1990s)

  • The Millennium Cafe (late-1990s)

  • Portland Communique (early-2000s)

  • Can’t Stop the Serenity (mid-2000s)

  • The Belmont Goats (mid-2010s)

Testimonials

  • “Good company” (Children’s House of Montessori)

  • “Unsubtle and not brilliant” (Dominque Nahas)

  • “Quick wit" (Rolling Stone)

  • “Punk” (Bruce Sterling)

  • “No one” (Dave Winer)

  • “Internet pioneer” (Jonah Seiger)

  • “Punctuation-enhanced” (David Weinberger)

  • “Must-read” (The Oregonian)

  • “Cottage-industry” (Christian Crumlish)

  • “Sissy” (Anonymous PR flack)

  • “True independent” (David Perlmutter)

  • “Twitchy, unreliable-looking” (Joss Whedon)

Colophon

  • Born in upstate New York on Saturday, October 25, 1969

  • Of Italian, Lithuanian, and Polish descent

  • On the internet since the Fall of 1993

  • Portlander for twenty-eight years and counting

  • “Bix” since the late-90s, legally since early 2018

  • That dog is hit again

Rules

  • No fear

  • No hate

  • No thoughtless bullshit

  • No nazis