Tag: Reading

  • 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…

  • A Year With my Nose in Books

    It has been one of those years that feels long in retrospect, but I am also wondering exactly how I got to December. It’s still fairly early in the month, and I’ll likely finish the books I am reading at present, and start another one or two before the year is out, but I’m comfortable…

  • 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…

  • Hits from the Zettlekasten/”Tampa”

    I wrote a bit about the war of the zettlekasten as my last entry, and have been keeping two separate ones; one is a set of notes on Philosophy, thus far really just notes and nodes as I read Bertrand Russell, and another which is for… life stuff, the novel I am perpetually not writing,…

  • 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…

  • Not Finishing “Clarissa”/Summer Blahs/What I am Reading

    I am, according to Kindle, roughly 65% of the way through Clarissa, which is about 1000 pages or so in. At my present rate of speed, (again, according to Kindle) it would take me a further 24 hours or so to finish it. I read the first 800 pages or so with an enthusiasm I…

  • 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…