The unsupported use case of Bix Frankonis’ disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.
NOW Reading all the time (gift me ebooks), blogging and back working on restoring two decades of posts, supporting revived use of the term “social murder”, agreeing that “ABOLISH ICE!” is the moderate position.
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.
PAST Hands Off! the Net (mid-1990s), The Millennium Cafe (late-1990s), Portland Communique (early-2000s), Can’t Stop the Serenity (mid-2000s), The Evil League of Evil (late-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-nine 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.