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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.
🦋 Bolaño Group Read
I thank Rise of in lieu of a field guide for hipping me to the group read of Savage Detectives happening in January. The participants include (but are not limited to, nudge, nudge),
At the Brooklyn Rail, David Shirley takes us back to winter 1965, to the opening of the Peace Eye Bookstore where we meet the Slum Gods of the Lower East Side.
Robyn Hitchcock's Chronology album is out! Holly Hughes marks the occasion by posting about versions of "Madonna of the Wasps"; and Hitchcock is in the A.V. Clubanswering questions about the compilation. And me, well, I can't wait for the two shows later this month...