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06/04/2026

Commencement Speech

Dear Class of 2026—congratulations… You did it. You survived active shooter drills, pandemics, wildfire smoke, AI plagiarism scandals and the mass psy-ops known as social media....

Dear Class of 2026—congratulations… You did it. You survived active shooter drills, pandemics, wildfire smoke, AI plagiarism scandals and the mass psy-ops

05/11/2026

05/01/2026

Meanwhile, on The Drive with Daedalus Howell 95.5 FM, it's Freaky Friday.

04/26/2026

As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” But… Most self-help gurus say we do have more, maybe even three, with additional modules available for download.

https://dhowell.com/blog/american-lives-deaths-are-all-about-second-acts/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jetpack_social

04/21/2026

Special thanks to David Templeton for this fine piece on The Drive with Daedalus Howell in the Press Democrat and Petaluma Argus-Courier 😎

“I am hopelessly in love with radio,” says the local writer and filmmaker, who took over the hosting gig in 2025 after Steve Jaxon retired.

04/18/2026

I had the pleasure of interviewing Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, the subject of Steal This Story, Please! a gripping new documentary that focuses on Goodman's unwavering commitment to truth-telling spanning three decades of turbulent history. Click-thru to listen/read...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, the subject of Steal This Story, Please! a gripping new documentary that focuses on

04/11/2026

DVDs Are Flat Circles: Streamers Killed the Video Store

"I have a theory that media that is round and disk-shaped will always return. Its primary shape, a circle, speaks to the cyclical nature of tastes and life in general."

The last video store where one could rent DVDs in Marin County closed in February 2022. What does this mean for the non-streaming movies?

04/10/2026

AI Writing Obituaries

"Reconciling how our words are read by both humans and the search bots that feed them is par for the course these days. It’s to the point where some word choices comprise more algorithm than alphabet."

AI writing obituaries is just the start of the general replacement of human writers in our modern newsrooms.

04/09/2026

CIA: Take the Money and Run (a Little Magazine)

"And inasmuch as digital media has 'democratized' filmmaking, it’s still a slog to fund movies. My films and my CV have never compelled grantors or intelligence operatives to throw me a bone. But if they did, would I take their dough?"

Sometimes research is a benign form of procrastination. Other times, it’s a tremulous step onto a spider’s web of curiosities and conspiracies until the