Meta Meat Team Mate — Amuse Bouche: Rage Restaurant The story of Vegetable Meat™westyreflector.medium.com Appetizer: The Frame Spider Future. Food. Fiction?westyreflector.medium.com Entree: Ford Kharkey sat behind the wheel of his immaculate repair van, eyes scanning the road ahead. His assistant, Cleave, a lumpy nug of rich red and pink ground beef, sat shotgun, upright in a plastic tub secured by a metal O-ring lashed to the passenger seatbelt. …

let’s just see what sticks — Sound is physical art.

The idea that alien life forms would conform to our dimensional perspectives and physics, and yet still leave themselves vulnerable to human weapons and hate, is naive. “An Earthland vacation this light-year? Really?” “I heard it’s pretty, and I always wanted to go.” “Okay, but just remember to bring dimension-block-” …

“Behind The Cover: Celebrity Edition” — Youtube user Saboruchan latest video takes us on a journey through a “virtually untouched” abandoned bowling alley in Haikyo, Japan, that opened in 1973 and closed in 2018. Through the modern miracle of a CC-BY-SA-NC Creative Commons license, “Chasing Flight” off my 2016 record Almost X soundtracks the scene.

one for the lonely — written: 20191113.0927 key: A time: 3/4 I set out to write a “holiday song” a few years back, even daring to dream of expanding the thought into an EP I would definitely call A Very Westy Holiday. The EP’s still a dream, but I was home in NYC a…

DALL-E 2 INPUT: “A former musician, surrounded by destroyed instruments, under a pink sky, photographed by William Eggleston” (2022) Someone randomly came into one of my social feeds today with “former musician” in their bio, and the notion sent me, well, riffing… What, exactly, constitutes a “former” musician? Did they…

latest imgtxts — “Matter is mostly empty space,” Luna piped up on a walk through The Club’s bocce courts. “Ergo, everyone has a big sucking vacuum between their ears.” “Ergo?” I quired. “Fancy word for a fido.” “Fancy?” she sniped. “You wouldn’t know of fancy if it bit you in the Birken.” “Give…

see the you you are, not the you you see — In 2018, my wife Cat costume designed the Amazon series Homecoming in Los Angeles, so we decamped Brooklyn for a 1930s cottage aerie perched halfway up Laurel Canyon. I couldn’t bring any guitars to LA, because when you pack for an 8-month trip, with no back-and-forths, hard decisions have…

Were there inner voices before there was oral language? Just curious what a Neanderthal thought to theirself. Tbf, I still have no idea how an idea in my head ends up in a written word. I don’t think in words as I write. With no codified written language, maybe Ned…