Tag: Bitching

  • What I Read

    I’ve spent Christmas and the New Years up at the acreage; my bees are happily buzzing around when it’s warm, and hiding when it isn’t. This is their nature. Mine is apparently to hide away in a cabin, emerging to walk my dogs, write occasionally, read a lot, and just kind of luxuriate in having…

  • On “Cornelius Cardew : A Life Unfinished”

    I had a couple of friends in college who both underwent huge personality changes during the time I knew them, both after encountering some philosophical concept that fundamentally changed their understanding of the world around them; one, unfortunately encountered Ayn Rand, and immediately embraced her — I don’t want to dignify it by calling it…

  • Year End Reading Wrap-up

    This year, according to Storygraph, I have finished 66 books. That’s not entirely accurate, as Storygraph has no way to distinguish between books and stories; and it counts “Hop-Frog”, at 25 pages, as a book. I’m gonna run with it, not because I log every page I read (I read a lot of articles for…

  • A Pretentious Title About Philosophy

    I walk the dog every morning. Most mornings, we walk up the French Quarter and out to the Mississippi River, and walk along it a little way. In the winter months, this is close to sunrise. I usually stop, take a picture of the dog with the sunrise in the background, and post the photo…

  • On Distractions, or, Zettel’s Kasten

    Assuming all goes well, I will be re-entering school in the fall, at my ancient age, to study philosophy. The road that got me here isn’t uninteresting, but it’s not my primary focus for this essay. But, as a result of this decision, I’ve been re-learning how to take more detailed notes as I read;…

  • 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 III : Copenhagen

    Schiopol airport is confusing; so confusing that my wife has sent me an email with some advice on how it can best be navigated, There are three main terminals, each with a set of sub-desks with no clear indication of what airline is where, and I go to ‘3’ first, see my airline is not…

  • A Short Entry About Why There’s No Entry

    I got my COVID booster on Tuesday at noon, and spent the entirety of Wednesday in bed, mostly asleep, so I don’t have any Thursday entry this week– I had planned to discuss a couple of recently read Moby Dick chapters, in which the plot advances, and compare them to ones in which it does…