Benjamin Holsteen
American Expat in Scotland / Husband / Dad / Ph.D. Student / Writer of Songs turned Writer of Essays Who Still Writes Songs Sometimes
I'm Verrrry Online:
- Transcendent Mixtapes is a unreliable regular newsletter, reflecting in writing on religious life in the 21st century, filtered through a lifetime of obsessive pop music listening. I'm bringing rock stars into conversation with philosophers and theologians because... well, you'd be surprised how often their concerns actually overlap. Sign up now so you never miss a post.
- My Social Home The Melancholaholic* blog is my online home, the place where everything that isn't the Transcendent Mixtapes newsletter or a an update to our family Patreon supporters lives. From here, I practice what the IndieWeb community calls POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) to the various social networks where I actively try to spend as little time as I can. Fire up you early-2000's RSS reader and follow along!
Social:
The Best - I post and actually reply here:
The Rest - I post to these sites occasionally, but rarely engage in commenting/"liking"/etc. I'm trying to stay connected with the folks who still live online in these places, quietly hoping that y'all might join me in the kinder, gentler social media world taking shape above.