Dave Olson

Diary: New Year Dragons with foods, gardens, bevvies, and themes

https://daveostory.com/dav...

03:29 AM - Jan 29, 2024

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Thar be Dragons Ahoy!

Wishing you Calm in 2024, Reiwa 5 if you prefer

Fondly from Olsons of Tsuchida Cottage – Ichiro, Ryoko and Daveo

{For collectors, enthusiasts, pals, renegades, lovers and mysterios}

photo: Ken Miner
stamp: Nick Bantock
shodo: Takushi Fujita
flourish: Ryoko
design: daveo

08:01 PM - Dec 31, 2023

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/CFklOabXXAw

"Fairytale of New York" snack size pirate-style snippet on baritone ukulele with fond regards for Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl

https://youtu.be/CFklOabXX...

"Fairytale of New York" on baritone ukulele (snack size) - YouTube

06:12 AM - Dec 03, 2023

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/9DsCNfI96p8

"Fairytale of New York" etc. (for Shane and Kirsty) on baritone ukulele

https://youtu.be/9DsCNfI96...

{a wiseman would not float this out to the world yet, i am not *that* wise & its my first time so hey, dig it :)}

#shanemcgown #kirstymaccoll #faitytaleofnewyork #baritoneukulele

Fairytale of New York etc. (for Shane and Kirsty) on baritone ukulele - YouTube

08:42 AM - Dec 01, 2023

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"Little Blue Truck" Halloween storytime with Uncle Dave

For #Halloween enthusiasts, especially with kids &/or living away from trick-or-treat traditions + request for lowdown about costumes & snapshots if appropriate & a stack of favorite books for reading requests

https://youtu.be/n2NhFaruW...

07:37 AM - Oct 30, 2023

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Healing: oxygen, blood cells, coffee & matching outfits (+ future acts)

https://daveostory.com/dav...
#mecfs #pwme #diary #japanlife #dreams

01:15 AM - Oct 13, 2023

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Post, pals and figuring *it* out (together, alone) – Japan Cottage Musings

https://youtu.be/9hK5DEuZI...

While opening postal dispatches from a podcaster, sketcher, a poets/media theorist, a teenage era pin pal, an Australia – UK-Nashville singer ...

01:11 AM - Oct 13, 2023

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Changes in Sanity (& Latitudes) – Japan Cottage Musings

In bed, confused, rambling slurring, fiddling with ukulele, remembering Jimmy Buffett, Jamaica, "all the places I've been" gratitude for friends especially who pick up phone and send postcards

https://youtu.be/TSeEVfLYW...

Changes in Sanity (& Latitudes) – Japan Cottage Musings - YouTube

In bed, confused, rambling slurring, fiddling with ukulele, remembering Jimmy Buffett, Jamaica, "all the places I've been" (Nepal, Suez, Istanbul, Grand Cany...

04:32 AM - Oct 05, 2023

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Aug 16, 2023 = UW53

postcards, books, cassettes, records, love letters, telegrams, fax accepted though certainly not required / just another day right #shrug

937-1 Tsuchida, Naka
Okayama
〒 703-8217 Japan

03:06 AM - Aug 09, 2023

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By the way, any tips for making text bigger?

Using @spoutible in chrome on iPhone. My system accessibility settings are set for larger text but I can barely see this at all making it hard to send / read messages.

What am I missing?

07:43 PM - Jul 09, 2023

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PS interesting reading about gut biome research and “temporary remission events“ for #MECFS & are accidental cotravelers with #LOngCOVID in the guardian… We all know about the importance of the gut / brain connection and we are waiting waiting waiting, https://www.theguardian.co...

theguardian.com

Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue? | Medical research | The Guardian

Often dismissed by the medical establishment, people with complex illnesses such as ME and long Covid are taking the hunt for treatments into their own hands

07:41 PM - Jul 09, 2023

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whilst drinking coffee, contemplating today’s mission which is “immigration office, the return”… Sequels are always better than the original after all - right?

(I’m *sure* it’s gonna go great because I don’t wanna be calm deportable on Friday)

07:19 PM - Jul 09, 2023

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Hospital day yesterday, waking up completely wiped out but felt heard by the doctors, a lot of fluids went out and morw went in, referrals for some complicated/intricate tests and evaluations. Unfortunately, (for me) my doctor got a “great opportunity” to move to Kyoto University Hospital #MECFS

07:46 PM - Jul 07, 2023

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Immigration office in the morning, hoping for a five year zairyu extension. I’m sure this mustache will make all the difference.

#TryingToSmile #Japanlife #NoBigDealJustGettingStuffDone #NotSureWhyImPosting / oh probably because I love photo booths. #VeryNiceMustache #YesImStillAlive

07:33 AM - Jul 05, 2023

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Wrote some summer “themes” or mantras or thoughts or scribbles or something… Putting it here where no one will see it except the whole universe

12:57 AM - Jul 03, 2023

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Please come over to listen to records, look through old folios and will paint each other’s toenails. I’ve got some blue polish but not capable of painting my own… And where is the fun and not anyhow?

07:19 PM - Jul 01, 2023

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Just sharing my over-sharing about brains, pineal maguc, postcards & question marks nbd https://daveostory.com/pai...

daveostory.com

Post’d: a batch of postcards to shake to question marks (about concussion & pineal) — Dave Olson Creative Life Archive

I’ve scribbled up a batch of postcards, both foreign and domestic. This is hardly new or surprising yet, in a rare instance, words elude me, and a great feeling of overwhelming malaise grips me.

06:12 PM - Jul 01, 2023

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Related to #MECFS did you see this article about my decade long accidental journey with this stupid chronic and complex and incurable disease? Happy to collaborate with open medicine foundation who are really doing great work.

https://www.omf.ngo/living...

omf.ngo

A decade of ME/CFS: Dave's Story - Open Medicine Foundation

Read Dave Olsen’s story: Finding hope & purpose living with ME/CFS in Japan

01:55 AM - Jun 20, 2023

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Well, anyway I’m going to head out and get my IV drip injection thingy. It’s a cute little neighborhood clinic but really I’m so sick of doing this… However I’ve got presents from Canada for them (smoked salmon for the doctor, maple cookies for the nurse) so we go on #MECFS

01:54 AM - Jun 20, 2023

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Thought I had folded all of the laundry but turns out there was one more load still in the machine.

Question: do I get to keep the dopamine from the previous two baskets?

01:52 AM - Jun 20, 2023

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Taking a trip to nagasaki later this week… Going to leave this phone pocket robot at home, along with the “smart watch” etc take a book, field notes/pen – give my eyes a rest. I can barely see this screen anymore / I want to go to the tram/Railway Museum there & hot springs & abacus tournament

12:46 AM - Jun 20, 2023

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Trying to beat the blues and get into a summer mood so I went to my beleaguered, battered “lost and showa“ barbershop – the laminate peeling, cigarette butts in the ashtrays, dusty mango on a shelf, instant coffee if so inclined. Freshteh up a bit

12:43 AM - Jun 20, 2023

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My Darlings and I are visiting my erstwhile home territory of #Vancouver and #Victoria . Get in on the fun with my “Olson invasion occasional gazette” videos at https//youtu.be/Mq6mxIhFYmg (not my usual longform soliloquies :)) cheap and cheerful, come find us at parks and gardens.

Olson Invasion Occasional Gazette, 1 - YouTube

Hello from Langley, we’ve safely arrived, spending time with family, then heading on the various checkpoints and parks and gardens. We hope to see you. #driB...

12:04 AM - Apr 16, 2023

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my appearance on “Writers Read Their Early Sh*t” podcast with the charming Jason Emde. I say a lot of words, sometimes quite rapidly, sometimes they’re useful, sometimes extraneous… So it goes

https://wrtes.buzzsprout.c...

wrtes.buzzsprout.com

S2/E5 - Dave Olson (aka Uncle Weed): priorities & bad decisions

Jason welcomes under-qualified window-washer Dave Olson & his fantastic beard & beautiful hands for a natter about punching or hugging Dostoevsky, see-through loincloths, meeting REM, borrowing mustard from Allen Ginsberg, dodgy Greyhound stations, working out the writing life math, ..

04:31 AM - Apr 05, 2023

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Oh interesting about Gary Snyder

poetryfoundation.org

Axe Handles by Gary Snyder | Poetry Foundation

One afternoon the last week in April

04:30 AM - Apr 05, 2023

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This poem by Gary Snyder is, to me, everything wonderful https://www.poetryfoundati...

04:29 AM - Apr 05, 2023

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A really important article in the Atlantic about the illness I deal with #MECFS / strangely and regrettably, awareness is way up because of #LOngCOVID but still, real solutions are slow coming https://www.theatlantic.co...

04:28 AM - Apr 05, 2023

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A great interview i enjoyed doing with “rock and the beat generation” newsletter by Simon Warner about my “Kerouac and Kobe” project and living beat life in Japan in general / https://simonwarner.substa... #beat #kerouac #JackKerouac #JackKerouac A great interview i enjo

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Interview #12: Dave Olson - by Simon Warner

A Canadian who long went East reveals the ins and outs of a magnificent Kerouac event in Japan forced to dodge the impact of the global pandemic yet which hauled triumph from the jaws of defeat

04:27 AM - Apr 05, 2023

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