Dear Vagobond Fam, After more than two decades of writing, creating, and wandering under the name Vagobond, the time has come to lay this identity to rest. This isn’t a disappearance—it’s a strategic retreat, a rebrand, and a fresh start. This will be the last post I create here or on the Vagobond site or…
I find myself in such a strange place. I don’t mean in terms of where I physically am – I’m back in Otaru, Japan at my house, Satoshi Manor. I mean it’s a strange place to be mentally, emotionally, spiritually. China was such an unexpected joy. I made some great friends in a very short…
It went way too fast. I met great people, had some amazing adventures, and also had my mind blown on more than one occasion. Full disclaimer, my time was spent in Shanghai and it’s a little bit of a bubble world – so the rest of China may be completely different. Shanghai was wonderful. Filled…
I’ve created some AI Baojis – come interact with them! We have a lot going on in the Baoism Discord server. There is the Lamsterverse – which is a collaborative creation that has Baoism as one of its core roots. There are discussions about all the things that matter in life among a group of…
I’m excited to share a project that has been in the works for years. Future World 2323 started with one of the the novels I wrote during the pandemic Notes from Nowhere in which I put a man of our time into a world three centuries hence. In 2022, in E.R. Donaldson’s Mythic. Winter anthology,…
I realize this is probably no surprise to anyone. I don’t know though, maybe the younger generation doesn’t have the same experience because they never lived in a period where things actually worked most of the time. A few cases in point. This website/blog/domain/hosted account/wordpress installation. When I started Vagobond, it was perfectly fine. A…
I’ve mentioned before some of what I’m doing with Lamsters and the Lamsterverse. It’s kind of become a very fun part of my life and of course, I’ve integrated Baoism into it – because why wouldn’t I include a fun philosophy and open spiritual framework that doesn’t impinge on anyone’s current belief system into a…
Let me start with the basics. FUCK YOU! That’s the world we live in and you better get used to it. Emperor Trump is not going to step down. He might die. But that is only the end of ‘weak’ people. The United States of America is now the Republican States of America and that…
The world we once knew, the world most of us grew up in and worked in, in which those of us who raised families or had careers, that world is about to be gone. In fact, it’s probably been gone for a while but this is the year that things burn and are gone forever. …
2024 was such a trip of a year. I named it the Year of Foundation Building when I put together my goals and dreams sheet back in late 2023. That certainly seems to have been what it was for me, although if you had told me that I would be sitting here in two feet…