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READIN
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
🦋 Trailer
I missed this hilarious publicity video when Super Sad True Love Story came out. If you did too, take a look:
He came from nowhere... and he's... well, you know, he's still really nowhere...
Kurt Gegenhuber of The Celestial Monochordlinks to two very fine music blogs, both new to me: Old, Weird America, where gadaya uses "the Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore American folk music"; and Excavated Shellac, where Jonathan Ward is exploring world music and posting recordings of old 78's. His latest post is a real treat: Hausa praise music from Nigeria, from (probably) the 1950's.