Gabriel Garcia
@solidgarcia.bsky.social
American reverberating between Berlin and Brazil. Translator, musician, writer. Husband, father. Third-culture person. Cardigan punk. Champion of mediocrity.
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Keeping the fun and light vibes going. Did an edit of an older essay about the death of my older brother and the insights it gave me re. certain aspects of suffering, trauma, and the shaping of perspectives through conflict.
About Death
Re-edit of an older essay about the death of my older brother and the insights it gave me re. certain aspects of suffering, trauma, and the shaping of perspectives through conflict.
solidmaybe.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Keeping the fun and light vibes going. Did an edit of an older essay about the death of my older brother and the insights it gave me re. certain aspects of suffering, trauma, and the shaping of perspectives through conflict.
New long-form essay up. My ode to Berlin. A first-person account of my life there, the places and people I found, the networks of care I encountered, and the ways it has shaped me as a person. Bit of TW on this one, as it covers a handful of sensitive topics.
My Berlin Is Not Your Berlin
My ode to Berlin. A first-person account of my life there, the places I found, the networks of care I encountered, and the ways it has shaped me as a person.
solidmaybe.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New long-form essay up. My ode to Berlin. A first-person account of my life there, the places and people I found, the networks of care I encountered, and the ways it has shaped me as a person. Bit of TW on this one, as it covers a handful of sensitive topics.
Trying to put my finger on something I kept stumbling across online. How our media landscape has led to widespread political and cultural amnesia, and what that means for people's general ability to orient themselves and their thinking in the wider world.
The Culture of Short-term Memory Loss
How the current media landscape has led to widespread political and cultural amnesia, and what that means for people's general ability to orient themselves and their thinking in the wider world.
solidmaybe.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Trying to put my finger on something I kept stumbling across online. How our media landscape has led to widespread political and cultural amnesia, and what that means for people's general ability to orient themselves and their thinking in the wider world.
This is precisely the world and atmosphere I grew up in. Only realized recently how formative it was to have it simply dissolve and dissappear. Gave me a fair few tools and perspectives that have been useful ever since.
The Dos & Don’ts of Driving to West Berlin During the Cold War: A Weird Piece of Ephemera from the 1980s
The Dos & Don’ts of Driving to West Berlin During the Cold War: A Weird Piece of Ephemera from the 1980s
As generations have come of age with few or no memories of the existence of the Soviet Union, a common misconception about Berlin has become more common.
www.openculture.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is precisely the world and atmosphere I grew up in. Only realized recently how formative it was to have it simply dissolve and dissappear. Gave me a fair few tools and perspectives that have been useful ever since.
If I talk about decentering myself, am I not just centering myself all over again?
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If I talk about decentering myself, am I not just centering myself all over again?
I reworked a 2017 essay addressing war and conflict as inherent features of human societies and behavior, updating and expanding it to incorporate our current drift towards widespread violence. Do we always have to end up here to learn our lesson(s)?
We Are War (Slight Return)
An edited version of a 2017 essay addressing war and conflict as inherent features of human societies and behavior, updated and expanded to incorporate our current drift towards widespread violence.
solidmaybe.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I reworked a 2017 essay addressing war and conflict as inherent features of human societies and behavior, updating and expanding it to incorporate our current drift towards widespread violence. Do we always have to end up here to learn our lesson(s)?
Forget Sun Tzu, get on your von Clausewitz.
October 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Forget Sun Tzu, get on your von Clausewitz.
Left out the longing for the mundane, but here's a new one thinking about the relationship between analog and digital technologies and what they represent in terms of our relationship with the world around us and how we wish to experience it.
Digital vs. Analog – Socioexperiential Facsimiles
Thinking about the relationship between analog and digital technologies and what they represent in terms of our relationship with the world around us and how we wish to experience it.
solidmaybe.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Left out the longing for the mundane, but here's a new one thinking about the relationship between analog and digital technologies and what they represent in terms of our relationship with the world around us and how we wish to experience it.
Thoughtful mind cleanser...
1970: KURT VONNEGUT Interview | Review | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Thoughtful mind cleanser...
After moving a household plus two kids across oceans wide and plenty, working, and recording/releasing an EP, I finally wrapped up this essay. Analyzing the obsession with generational differences and how it relates to the frenetic standstill we have been in since the beginning of the 21st century.
Generational Drama
A short discussion and analysis of our current obsession with generational perspectives and differences, why it anchors so much discourse, and how it relates to the frenetic standstill we have found o...
solidmaybe.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
After moving a household plus two kids across oceans wide and plenty, working, and recording/releasing an EP, I finally wrapped up this essay. Analyzing the obsession with generational differences and how it relates to the frenetic standstill we have been in since the beginning of the 21st century.
As an American who grew up outside the US, it became clear very early on in life, that when Americans say "the world," they essentially mean "Cleveland."
September 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
As an American who grew up outside the US, it became clear very early on in life, that when Americans say "the world," they essentially mean "Cleveland."
The "Generational Drama" essay remains stalled due to belongings strewn across hemispheres, but Her Gang's German Graffiti Demo is starting to make the rounds and getting plays/noticed here and there. That's nice. Listed here with hundreds of other great releases.
In Shorts: New Releases, Aug 14th - Sept 5th - IDIOTEQ.com
We’re wrapping up the last three weeks in one go this time — vacation trips and summer chaos got in the way, but the upside is nearly two hundred quick notes
idioteq.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The "Generational Drama" essay remains stalled due to belongings strewn across hemispheres, but Her Gang's German Graffiti Demo is starting to make the rounds and getting plays/noticed here and there. That's nice. Listed here with hundreds of other great releases.
Things have been quiet due to trans-hemispheric relocations, but did manage to use a few free moments to record some songs for a new solo project. Available on tape at Cardigan Punk or via Bandcamp. I think it's good.
German Graffiti Demo, by Her Gang
4 track album
hergang.bandcamp.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Things have been quiet due to trans-hemispheric relocations, but did manage to use a few free moments to record some songs for a new solo project. Available on tape at Cardigan Punk or via Bandcamp. I think it's good.
Don't think any name is ever going to beat Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
August 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Don't think any name is ever going to beat Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
A documentary where Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, and Thurston Moore talk at length about something, but it is never really clear what they're actually talking about.
August 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A documentary where Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, and Thurston Moore talk at length about something, but it is never really clear what they're actually talking about.
Something that gets omitted when people throw around ideas about Nazism, is how the 12-year dalliance with facism killed up 10 million Germans, destroyed every major and mid-size city, ruptured a cultural inheritance stretching back over a millennium, and is still felt today, nearly a century later.
August 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Something that gets omitted when people throw around ideas about Nazism, is how the 12-year dalliance with facism killed up 10 million Germans, destroyed every major and mid-size city, ruptured a cultural inheritance stretching back over a millennium, and is still felt today, nearly a century later.
Looking at some of today's "crises" through a historical lens and drawing parallels to past instances of shifting climate, mass migration, conflict, and a transition to a new geopolitical order.
Climate Shifts and People’s Instinctive Travels — Solid Maybe
Looking at some of today's "crises" through a historical lens and drawing parallels to past instances of shifting climate, mass migration, conflict, and a transition to a new geopolitical order.
www.solidmaybe.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Looking at some of today's "crises" through a historical lens and drawing parallels to past instances of shifting climate, mass migration, conflict, and a transition to a new geopolitical order.
Promo tape unearthed during apartment clear out. Late 90s... what a time to be alive.
July 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Promo tape unearthed during apartment clear out. Late 90s... what a time to be alive.
The biggest trick the internet ever pulled was making dorks think they were cool and jocks think they were smart.
July 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The biggest trick the internet ever pulled was making dorks think they were cool and jocks think they were smart.
More geopolitical ephemera from clearing out the apartment. Picture album of post-war Sarajevo from when my dad was stationed there.
July 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
More geopolitical ephemera from clearing out the apartment. Picture album of post-war Sarajevo from when my dad was stationed there.
Clearing out the place. Unearthing decades of cultural and sociopolitical ephemera. MSF postcard from Chechnya, 1999. Putin's been keeping it real for 26 years.
July 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Clearing out the place. Unearthing decades of cultural and sociopolitical ephemera. MSF postcard from Chechnya, 1999. Putin's been keeping it real for 26 years.
Many to choose from, but lots of young, friend memories associated with vibing to this one.
Black Sabbath - Lord Of This World
YouTube video by Thomas Liddle
youtu.be
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Many to choose from, but lots of young, friend memories associated with vibing to this one.
POV: That's not what POV means.
July 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
POV: That's not what POV means.
Reviving the Solid Maybe homebase to snych up my essays. Will also have new music going up soon. Hope to get on the imagery and short form again too. For now, my rant on the involution of progress and consuming everything on lease.
Neijuan, Involution and the New Disaffected International — Solid Maybe
Essay on how almost every aspect of life is affected by the involution of progress, and we live and consume everything on lease.
www.solidmaybe.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reviving the Solid Maybe homebase to snych up my essays. Will also have new music going up soon. Hope to get on the imagery and short form again too. For now, my rant on the involution of progress and consuming everything on lease.
I am once again pitching "Russian Windows" as a band name. Depending on how 00s you want make it, you can throw a "The" in there.
July 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I am once again pitching "Russian Windows" as a band name. Depending on how 00s you want make it, you can throw a "The" in there.