What you can’t put in ink on paper

There’s more than what’s below. Like, this guy’s important to me too…

All the digging for book prep is not only consuming time but forcing me to recognize the kinds of content that are not transferable to print. These are intrinsic to my own literary sense of relevant context. Readers are entitled to have access to real parts of the “Examined Life’ that vouch more than just-words can of the depth of a writer’s life experience. Lists of names and works go only so far. There are more than 750 posts at Instapunk Returns. These are the Examined Life components of about five years, give or take, and add up to thousands of custom graphics, hundreds of videos, and approximately a million words. Translation to books is difficult for the visual stuff. It’s impossible for the aural stuff, most significantly music. Which has always been profoundly important to me.

So I’m not robbing you off with these links. I’m also reminding myself about another vital aspect of the legacy challenge. I’m not fancying this up for you. Giving you a post title in whole or in part, and a standalone link to it. The last one could be considered as either a summary or an introduction. You get to choose the order of the links you take. You’ll find the date of origin in the link text…

True Story of Romantic Love

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-true-story-of-romantic-love.html

The Hours Are Upon Me

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-hours-are-upon-me.html

Have You Ever Listened to Pet Sounds?

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2025/06/have-you-ever-listened-to-pet-sounds.html

Music of My Life (And Vice Versa)

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2022/03/my-life-in-music-and-vice-versa.html

Music for 2024 Presidential Campaign

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2024/01/music-for-2024-presidential-campaign.html

Lady Gaga-cum-Barbie-cum-AI/T&A/Autotune-cum-softporn-cum-girlieboys…

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2026/05/lady-gaga-cum-barbie-cum-ait.html

The Voices that Haunt Our Dreams

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-voices-that-haunt-our-dreams.html

A Mission from Gahd

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-mission-from-gahd.html

Soul Music for 2024

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2024/01/soul-music-for-2024.html

May Madness, Part Last

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2026/05/may-madness-part-last.html

My Music for My Last Campaign

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-music-for-my-last-campaign.html

Making It Up With Bruce Springsteen

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2023/03/making-it-up-with-bruce-springsteen.html

The ‘Nice’ Nuking of the American Nuclear Family

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2025/01/nuking-nuclear-family.html

How Us Multimedia Guys Play

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-us-multimedia-guys-play.html

Science Fictions / Scarlet Ribbons

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2020/12/science-fictions-scarlet-ribbons.html

Auld Lang Syne

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2021/12/auld-lang-syne.html

The World to Come

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-world-to-come.html

Got to thinking about the Stones for Some Reason

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2021/08/go-to-thinking-about-stones-for-some.html

Me and the Stones

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2024/07/me-and-stones.html

Party Time

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2025/06/party-time.html

Brief Infatuations

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2026/02/brief-infatuations.html

Tell Me I’m Making It All Up for Myself

https://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2026/04/tell-me-im-making-it-all-up-for-myself.html

What Is Multimedia Writing?

http://instapunkreturns.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-is-multimedia-writing.html