About

I’m a skateboarder, librarian, aikidoist, reader, and player of tabletop roleplaying games. This is my blog. I have written a Positions Page to make clear my stance on various issues, in case you care.

I’ve had personal websites since 1994. I had no idea when I started this blog in 2006 that social media would make such progress in ruining the Web. But here we are. As I update this page the date is January 17, 2025, facsists and plain old business scumbags have lured people into the addiction of social media and we have a whole generation that doesn’t have any idea there was a time when the internet didn’t revolve around douchebag influencers, MAGA propaganda,  and bullshit.

BUT THERE IS HOPE!

I’m making some changes to my online “life”. Taking steps to distance myself from Meta and other major social media parasites. Posting here on this blog, and using my micro.blog account to post to several blogs on that service that cross-post to Mastodon.

I’m not totally leaving Facebook and Instagram (yet), but I will not be posting any sort of creative output there, be it writing, video, or images. Fuck them.

A great way to read this blog is an RSS reader. My feed URL is:  https://www.concretelunch.info/feed/

I recommend  Reeder or NetNewsWire for RSS readers — at least for MacOS and iOS.

Email: admin@concretelunch.info

This site and author support IndieWeb Principles.

This blog contains no tracking code, spyware, or adverts. It is a ZERO BULLSHIT WEBSITE.

My goal is that this blog be fully ACCESSIBLE. Thus all links are underlined and a different color. I’m working on adding alt-text to all the images. I started the blog way before this was a thing.

The name of this blog is the result of some brainstorming in about 2001 with my friend Mike Moore. We were trying to come up with a name for a skateboarding site, but felt it was too close to Concrete Wave, which was at the time a skateboarding magazine.  Eventually in about 2006 I decide to use it, because fuck that magazine. bwahahahahahaha.

Oh – my name’s Bob