Category: What I am Reading

  • Booktube Bitch/”253″/What I am Reading

    Let’s start by bitching a little. I heard about “253” from a booktube video. And it’s sort of a miracle I did. A lot of booktube videos now are listicles, with a picture of some dingus making a face while holding a stack of books *backwards* so you can’t read the spines and thus spoil…

  • I am Not a Writer/”Bottom’s Dream”

    I’ve been watching this video sort of obsessively. In it, Dan Olson, who’s a career YouTuber, draws comparisons between himself and another creator, James Rolfe, aka. “The Angry Video Game Nerd.” It’s a fascinating piece of work, even if you don’t care much about Rolfe’s work. Part callout, part artist statement, part commentary on avant…

  • A Cranky Travelogue, Part I : Amsterdam

    We have another entry which is sort of outside the blog’s raison d’etre, a little travelogue about a recent trip I took to Amsterdam, Tilburg, and Copenhangen. It was fun to write about, so I did so. With that I present “A Cranky Travelogue, Part I : Amsterdam”. There’s a brief “what I am reading”…

  • One of Those Entries Where I Write About a Number of Things

    A Creative Endeavor In a day or two, I’m gonna publish a little story I wrote. It’s never been my intent to turn this into an outlet for my creative pursuits, but it’s been a long time since I have written a story. I’ve alluded to this before, but I used to write quite a…

  • The Death of ‘Sironia, Texas’ and notes about this year’s reading.

    So, “Sironia, Texas” didn’t happen. I got through 100 pages or so, and it wasn’t all that good. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, at least from a blogging perspective. We could deconstruct the text, see what’s working, what isn’t, and why; analyzing what’s bad can sometimes illuminate what’s good. But “Sironia, Texas” also indulges…

  • “Pick up and Strum”/Three Short Reviews/What I am Reading

    I often have ideas while walking the dog in the morning, and by the time I get home, shower (because New Orleans in the summertime is like living on the surface of a very moist sun), eat breakfast, and then settle in for work, they’re gone. I like turning them over in my head while…

  • Mardi Gras/ What I am Reading

    Mardi Gras puts to waste a lot of plans. The annual celebration starts in January, and just kind of… goes on until Fat Tuesday. During this time, I’m busy drinking and parading and dressing like Elvis, for reasons not particularly relevant to this blog. However, it also means I am *not* doing what this blog…

  • On not Finishing a Book/”The Luminous Dead”/What I am Reading

    I want to talk a little bit about not finishing books. My last didn’t finish was “Angkor and the Khmer Empire: A History of Cambodia’s Legendary Temple Building Civilization” which wasn’t a history of anything, but rather a poorly written guidebook which looked like it had been translated via google translate. It was awful, and…

  • Back at It/ “Angkor and the Khmer Empire”/ What I am Reading/ Next Entry

    I have returned from our soujourn to Thailand and Cambodia; it was a lovely trip, but this isn’t a travel blog. Unfortunately, on the way back, I had some sort of stomach issue, and so I didn’t really get much reading in. While I was there I attempted to read “Angkor and the Khmer Empire”…

  • Bangkok/What I Read on the plane/What I am reading

    This isn’t a travel blog, but I am in Bangkok right now; it’s just after breakfast time. I had a big bowl of Jok with pork and eggs, and the aunties who run the stall apparently find my lumbering frame and desire to eat Thai food adorable. Bangkok is a unique place; things grow and…