Matt Asher Blog Archive

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2023-06-09Ep 66: Evolution and Entropy
2023-05-25Ep 65: Unfiltered in Amsterdam
2022-12-20Ep 64: Context Collapse and the Death of the Freak
2022-12-12Ep 63: Uncle Ted’s Manifesto with Pete and Bird
2022-03-02Ep 62: Richard Semelka on Bad Medicine
2022-02-21Ep 61: Clay Gulick on Healthcare Tech and the Code for Shark Bites
2022-02-07Ep 60: Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy as the Way to Be
2022-01-26Ep 59: The Candles Blew and then Disappeared
2022-01-18Ep 58: David Gornoski on Girard and Mimetic Theory
2022-01-11Ep 57: Welcome to the Truman Show
2022-01-01Ep 56: New Year Announcement
2021-12-01Ep 55: Mind the Gap
2021-11-22Ep 54: Andrew Thurman on Absurd Art, Virtual Embassies, and Why Walken’s Watch Was Worth so Much
2021-11-18Ep 53: Walter Block on Blackmail, Suicide, and Voluntary Schmavery
2021-11-08Ep 52: John Picco on Life (and Death) as a Top Gun
2021-11-01Ep 51: Martha Bueno on Cuba, Che, and Praying for Ice Cream
2021-10-25Ep 50: Adam B. Levine on Irreversible Transactions
2021-10-16Ep 49: Reed Coverdale on Trucking, Memeing, and Making a Garand go BRRRRRRRR
2021-10-11Ep 48: The Best of Microcasting on YKYZ
2021-10-04Ep 47: Betting Against Pascal
2021-09-27Ep 46: Robert A. Jensen on Life After Death
2021-09-19Ep 45: Slice of Death
2021-09-12Ep 44: A little Bit of Everything
2021-09-08Ep 43: Jeremy Kauffman on the Odysee to Publishing Freedom
2021-08-30Ep 42: Vaughn Scribner on the Uses and Abuses of Merpeople (Live Show)
2021-08-23Ep 41: Michael Huemer on Social Contracts, War, and Pushing Fat People in front of Trains
2021-08-16Ep 40: Jonathan Schooler on All Things META
2021-08-09Ep 39: Wist‘u Vida
2021-07-31Ep 38: Aubrey de Grey on the Quest to Reach Longevity Escape Velocity
2021-07-25Ep 37: Brandy Schillace on Head Transplants and Soul Searching
2021-07-19Ep 36: Tim Zimmermann on Death in a Deep Black Hole
2021-06-28Trailer for the upcoming Mattasher show
2021-05-25Ep 35: Hamish Low on Building the World’s Largest Bog Oak Table
2021-05-24Ep 34: Jeff Deist on Magical Monetary Thinking, Doomsday Cults, and Decision Making for Strippers
2021-04-22Ep 33: Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sea Life and the Evolution of Consciousness
2021-04-07Ep 32: Grant McCracken on Honor Codes, Artisanal Cultures, and Time Machines
2021-04-01Ep 31: Our Glorious Future as Amish or Termites
2021-03-30Crossover Episode: LocoFoco with Timothy Wirkman Virkkala
2021-02-03Ep 29: Black Box Thinking, UFOs, and a Fist Full of Dung
2020-12-12Ep 28: Fantasyland Redux, a Deeper Dive into the Dark Complexities of Magical Thinking
2020-12-03Ep 27: Kurt Andersen on Fantasyland Nation
2020-11-23Ep 26: Deborah Mayo on Error, Replication, and Severe Testing
2020-11-16Ep 25: Patrick French on the Military Tourism and Mysticism of Col. Younghusband
2020-11-05Ep 24: Adam Kotsko on Fear, Sacrifice, and our Permanent State of Exception
2020-11-02Ep 23: Carl A.P. Ruck on Mushrooms, Mystery, and Drinking from the Dionysian Stream
2020-10-16Ep 22: Scott Aaronson on the Hunt for Real Randomness
2020-10-06Ep 21: Sean Rife on the Uses and Abuses of Total Institutions
2020-10-02Ep 20: A.J. Jacobs on Humility, Omniscience, and the Perils of Polygamy
2020-09-23Ep 19 Michael Shermer on Giving the Devil his Due
2020-09-01Ep 18: Sandra Tsing Loh on a Tour of the American Class System
2020-08-26Ep 17: Russ Roberts on the Curious Task of Epistemology
2020-08-08Ep 16: Zvi Mowshowitz on Immoral Mazes, Levels of Language, and the Magic of Magic
2020-08-03Ep 15: The New Colonists
2020-08-03The more you do to help, the more you do to annoy
2020-07-31Ep 14: Pete Quiñones on Collapse, Chaos, and Community
2020-07-28Ep 13: Matt Welch on the Eroding Banks of Sanity
2020-07-25Ep 12: Andrew Gelman on Data, Modeling, and Uncertainty Amidst the Forking Paths
2020-07-19Ep 11: Tam Hunt on Consciousness, Resonance, and why Cats Fight their own Tails
2020-07-11Ep 10: Katie Herzog on Cancel Culture, Reputational Contagion, and Illiberal Mobs
2020-07-07/2020/07/07/marginal-returns-to-hours-worked/
2020-06-20Ep 9: The Sleep of Reason Produces Trigglypuffs
2020-06-16Ep 8: James Corbett on Propaganda and the Pandemic
2020-05-30Ep 7: Our Coming AR Dystopia
2020-05-29Ep 6: Jesse Walker on the Long History of Paranoia and Panic
2020-05-13Ep 5: Through the Simulation Hypothesis, Darkly
2020-05-05Ep 4: Vin Armani on Matriarchy, Memes, and the Devouring Mother
2020-05-05Ep 3: Latency is Killing us Slowly
2020-04-29Ep 2: Cargo Cults
2020-04-29Ep 1: Welcome to The Filter
2020-04-23Ep 0: The Filter Trailer
2018-04-20Search Engines and Common Queries
2018-04-18The Expert Locksmith’s dilemma
2018-04-11Clearing out the canon
2018-03-08Phone detox
2018-03-08Technoburnout
2018-03-08Everything takes longer
2018-03-01Consume
2018-03-01We pretend
2018-03-01Going the distance
2018-03-01Simulated world
2015-09-21Thought 2015-09-21
2015-09-21Cargo cult
2015-09-12Enough
2015-09-10Yellow Fly
2015-09-08Inside out
2015-06-29Family
2015-06-23Inocybe lacera maybe
2015-06-13Woman in the yellow shirt
2015-06-05Blur
2015-06-05Down
2015-06-01Empty tracks
2015-05-30Wall under a cloud
2015-05-28Burning rainbow sky
2015-05-25Start digging
2015-05-19Snap
2015-05-02River is back
2015-04-30Demand better sunsets
2015-04-23Flagging this
2015-04-12On the line
2015-04-06The Y
2015-04-04This. Is. Gatineau.
2015-03-22Breaking ice
2015-03-17Winter falls
2015-02-10Ice
2015-01-25Pines
2014-12-29Falling
2014-12-29Polypore
2014-12-23Parkour!
2014-12-21Daylight
2014-12-20Duck
2014-12-19Golden
2014-12-16Lit
2014-12-09Gray
2014-12-04Digging holes
2014-11-30Winter
2014-11-19Esplanade
2014-11-05Thoughts 2014-11-05
2014-10-26Russula
2014-10-25Thoughts 2014-10-25
2014-10-13Lean in
2014-10-12Holding cort
2014-10-05Bend
2014-09-30Brown
2014-09-28Look out
2014-09-18Park
2014-09-18Huis ouvert
2014-09-15Under the weather
2014-09-13Stretching
2014-09-06Here
2014-09-02Bleached
2014-09-01Roar
2014-08-23Flock
2014-08-18Hypomyces lactifluorum
2014-08-17/2014/08/17/the-central-problem-isnt-choosing-a-path-its/
2014-08-17Leaf
2014-08-14Procession
2014-08-14Tufts
2014-08-13Limit playtime to 10 minutes for best effect
2014-08-12Better than in a van down by the river
2014-08-12Waiting
2014-08-10Up
2014-08-01Bad neighborhood
2014-07-30MSM
2014-07-29All torn up
2014-07-29Warning
2014-07-28Yellow
2014-07-22Underpass
2014-07-20Waterfront
2014-07-08Snap crackle
2014-07-05It was very yellow
2014-06-29Return of the cute
2014-06-01Urban hawk
2014-05-13Discard
2014-05-12Strategy
2014-03-28Melting
2014-03-12Out of service
2014-03-11Bricked
2014-03-10Laneway
2014-02-27Bills
2014-02-26The other side
2014-02-20Blood
2014-02-19Enter
2014-02-18Not quite
2014-02-16Sinkhole
2014-02-14Beacon
2014-02-13I stunt, yeah, little hornet
2014-02-12Sunrise
2014-02-12Cloud Gardens
2014-02-10Server angst
2014-02-10Fire up the grill
2014-02-07Beach
2014-02-04Forthy
2014-01-31The Grange
2014-01-30Windows
2014-01-29Yorkville
2014-01-28Hold up
2014-01-27/2014/01/27/just-as-we-were-preparing-to-start-we-saw-a/
2014-01-26Tea is the gateway drug
2014-01-23The Booze Can
2014-01-22Image is not sideways
2014-01-21Totem
2014-01-20Pholiota
2014-01-16Tread carefully
2014-01-15White on bark
2014-01-15Apologies
2014-01-14Heat
2014-01-12Barista dilemma
2014-01-11Sitting log
2014-01-06Scarry
2014-01-03Garage door
2013-12-31EoY
2013-12-30Here we are
2013-12-29Tweaking
2013-12-28Bucket of mud
2013-12-17Snow and tracks
2013-12-16Blanket
2013-12-14White
2013-12-13Tie Dye
2013-12-12Trametes versicolor
2013-12-11Checked out
2013-12-11Miss
2013-12-10H. Octopi
2013-12-06AGO Good Room
2013-12-05Where nothing ever happens
2013-12-02ROM so bad
2013-12-01Polypores
2013-11-28Muskoka Snow Cone
2013-11-27Porcupine
2013-11-27Bad Poets Society
2013-11-27Bulrush
2013-11-26Voice
2013-11-25Empty
2013-11-22To the fall
2013-11-22Slimed
2013-11-20TO Sunset
2013-11-19Faster than that
2013-11-14Coral Fungus
2013-11-14Collapse
2013-11-13Spadina
2013-11-11Rush
2013-11-09Snowcap
2013-11-05Five is the new six
2013-11-01Medusa
2013-10-28Brutalism then and now
2013-10-25Goat
2013-10-24Amanita Hiaku
2013-10-23Urban wilderness
2013-10-21Blue Man Down
2013-10-20Amanitaville
2013-10-19Woods here and there
2013-10-16Lower Bathurst
2013-10-15Things you should not be doing
2013-10-14Toad on a toadstool
2013-10-12Art as Experience
2013-10-12Moonbean
2013-10-10Annex polypore
2013-10-10Wild horse
2013-10-07Sun on the city
2013-10-07Fall falls
2013-10-06Nuite Blah
2013-10-05Bubble surface
2013-10-05All that’s left of the farm
2013-10-04Hidden City
2013-10-02/2013/10/02/entering-the-ravine-on-a-long-walk-yesterday/
2013-09-26Kilbarry Rd
2013-09-26Shuttered
2013-09-25Wall
2013-09-22WotS
2013-09-21Q and S
2013-09-21Afternoon
2013-09-19Dusk
2013-09-19Toronto + sunset + moon
2013-09-18Dryads Saddle
2013-09-15Bottle nest
2013-09-15Ravine sighting
2013-09-12/2013/09/12/view-out-my-office-window-on-this-cloudy-thursday/
2013-09-11/2013/09/11/the-dock-at-taboo-in-muskoka-on-a-misty-day-taken/
2013-09-11/2013/09/11/sunset-at-ashbridges-bay-on-a-perfect-september/
2013-09-08Bolette
2013-09-03Don Parkland
2013-08-12Hope
2013-08-10Amanita + Hypomyces
2013-08-09How to add a book to your Kobo Aura HD in just 36 steps
2013-07-30Has your brain ever interrupted you…
2013-07-18The end of Honest Eds
2013-07-12Hygrocybe persistens
2013-07-07Blood Spore
2013-07-04State of the Union
2013-07-02Return of the Flys
2013-04-25Kobo first impressions
2013-04-20Dunham and Plath
2013-03-12A bunch of bunch berries by me
2012-09-30Nuit de l’ennui
2012-08-11Abe was an idiot
2011-10-10When I get older….
2011-08-22Ornament and Correction
2011-07-20The Outing
2011-06-28Betty or Wilma?
2011-05-17Ouvre-ventre
2011-05-16My arms were made to hold you tight
2010-12-31Your head will collapse if there’s nothing in it
2010-10-06All the things you try to hide will be revealed on the other side
2010-06-26Matryoshka
2010-06-16And her hair becomes a flame
2010-05-21Those that were the farthest out have gone the other way
2010-05-13She takes her work and bundles it up
2010-04-22Polygon Print Series #1
2010-04-21I’d dash them to pieces if I could get my arms free
2010-04-07Hot Diggity Dog
2010-04-05Venice Beach
2010-04-04Headlights in the deep
2010-04-03Ship me back home from a secret location
2010-01-24The time has come for bitter things
2010-01-17Now I heard you got a nickname
2009-12-17The Harvester of Dreams
2009-11-22Secret Twins
2009-11-17It seems like forever since we all had lunch
2009-11-12I’m sorry, did I break your concentration?
2009-11-05Supernatural
2009-11-03The elephant walks
2009-11-02Hell in London
2009-10-27Natural Enemies
2009-10-20Madl Remix
2009-10-19You got me off the beach and now I'm back in the reef
2009-10-17Obglob
2009-10-11Mercury
2009-10-10They delivered their sweat but progress wouldn’t progress
2009-10-09Face Off
2009-10-04Monument
2009-10-03What immortal hand or eye
2009-10-02A ragged robe of rabbit skin had wrapped his beauty round
2009-10-01I tried standing in a forest of reasons
2009-09-30What do you mean, I ain’t kind?
2009-09-29Your shadow runs into another
2009-09-26Fear
2009-09-25I fake it so real, I am beyond fake
2009-09-24Origin
2009-09-23When I get older, I will be stronger
2009-09-22I love you inside Ed
2009-09-21Dark Strings
2009-09-20Monkey Love Song
2009-09-19And he rambled til them butchers cut him down
2009-09-18The red, and orange and the sounds all around her
2009-09-17One chromosome too many
2009-09-16I noticed many things, and everyone became as one
2009-09-15Trust Issue
2009-09-14You live in a church, where you sleep with voodoo dolls
2009-09-12Topsy Turvy Times of Cockamamie Mumbo-Jumbo
2009-09-11Slo-Damen
2009-09-09Constant fear
2009-09-08If you want it bad you gotta steal your own fuel
2009-09-07Pops
2009-09-02Circastic
2009-08-29No one else can navigate a wormhole
2009-08-28Horror beneath the surface
2009-08-27El Vagabundo
2009-08-25The Humble BigHorn BlackFoot
2009-08-24Well who’s gonna make you happy, feeling so down again
2009-08-23Jesus and the Bear
2009-08-22There be monsters
2009-08-20I’m afraid you don’t know where it is [[BROKEN]]
2009-08-19Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command
2009-08-17A lack of secrets
2009-08-16On the boardwalk. Boardwalk.
2009-08-15Pay Day
2009-08-14She wears a mask. She's up until four in the morning
2009-08-12Tongue For Turnips On Tobacco Road
2009-08-11Palin artwork roundup
2009-08-10House
2009-08-08La Calavera Aburrida
2009-08-07Love in the time of coral snakes
2009-08-05Hydra
2009-08-04Bashed on into the side of a feed store
2009-08-03Living
2009-08-01Devil in the details
2009-07-31Hollywood vice
2009-07-30Harbinger
2009-07-29Bartender Bot
2009-07-28Inner life
2009-07-27Alien Ant Farm
2009-07-26Back again for the first time
2009-07-25Eyes wide in the electric glow
2009-07-23God of the stencil
2009-07-22Beauties and Beasts
2009-07-21Skull
2009-07-20Visual feast
2009-07-18Pretty empty
2009-07-17Big Head
2009-07-16Green-eyed Susan
2009-07-15Unexpecting
2009-07-14Untooned roundup
2009-07-14Celestial Tree
2009-07-13Hop out of bed, kick an elf in the chest
2009-07-12Photoshop of horrors
2009-07-10The attic’s filling up, I crack the basement door
2009-07-09Proxy
2009-07-08A tale of tails
2009-07-07Ghosts in the managerie
2009-07-05Whole lotta somethin’ comin’ after me
2009-07-04Black and white and red all over
2009-07-03Filling Ingot Molds
2009-07-02Credit where credit due
2009-07-01Rock 'Em Sock 'Em
2009-06-30Looking for a different space
2009-06-29Zombie #3
2009-06-28Baby you’re a wrecking ball, crashing into me
2009-06-27False Revolutionary
2009-06-26Leather on the outside but a delicate interior
2009-06-26Clean, strain, brush and wack
2009-06-25The worst thing an artist can do
2009-06-24Monster mashup
2009-06-23The School of Witches
2009-06-23Tea
2009-06-22Dem bones
2009-06-22Musicians unspooled
2009-06-21Oh my kiss breath turpentine
2009-06-20Vampire
2009-06-19How to make a white cinder-block wall look worse
2009-06-18Dr. Seuss Demento
2009-06-17Art for posters sake
2009-06-16Sacred heart of Mario
2009-06-15Color explosion
2009-06-14Nothing shocking
2009-06-13Dark shadows in the grass
2009-06-12Meet Bacon’s Meat
2009-06-07Wallflowers
2009-05-30Hotter Than A Georgia Peach In Summertime
2009-05-29Laughing Squid
2009-05-26Feeling Sentimental
2009-05-24Ride the walrus
2009-05-23Roller Warrior
2009-05-22A dog alone at a bar
2009-05-22Fragmentation Hand Grenade
2009-05-21The not-so-uncanny valley
2009-05-21Skeletons embrace
2009-05-20Scorched
2008-10-17The monster mash
2008-10-15Sometime you just
2008-10-14No neutral thoughts
2008-10-13A tasty dish
2008-10-11The illustrating man
2008-10-10Ahhhh the classics
2008-10-09The zar of darkness
2008-10-08Monkey bones
2008-10-07What big eyes you have
2008-10-07Yellow truck lines
2008-10-06Not the first or the last
2008-10-06Musical Bubble Garden
2008-10-05And the devil makes…
2008-10-04The spirit of Richard Scarry…
2008-10-04A cut above
2008-10-04My dinner companions
2008-10-04Kid Robot Chumps
2008-10-01Where is my heart?
2008-09-30We are the people
2008-09-30The distant future, the distant future
2008-09-29Hot Cha Cha Cha
2008-09-29The Mobius Strip Tease
2008-09-29The nurse will see you now
2008-09-28Queen Wasp by Naoto Hattori
2008-09-28Smoke ’em if you got ’em
2008-09-27Liza Lou makes things out of beads
2008-09-27Allegory of the four elements
2008-09-27Nice legs
2008-09-26Nathan Spoor: Suddenly
2008-09-26Kara Walker: Keys to the Coop
2008-09-02Why you might just want to roll your own