Currently reading: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
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Still maintaining this sprawling 1200+ song playlist of indie music across genres, focused on women vocalists and players. open.spotify.com/playlist/…
Needed this vibe. Currently reading: An Immense World by Ed Yong 📚
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
There’s a reasonable argument that this is the single biggest breach of public data by private person, ever. NYT gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/1…
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 →
The ham-handed relationship between governments, trustees and schools as boards get politicized. PBS: www.pbs.org/newshour/…
On “institutional neutrality,” a conservative approach to dampen political speech on college campuses.
⚡ A trust-building exercise in an era of "flooding the zone"
Monday, February 10, 2025 • 1
While institutions are backing away from making position statements, news outlets are making lengthy statements of intent. This one from Madison is interesting because it also acknowledges that a portion of their audience may be intentionally avoiding news about the White House. This is a traditional trust-building strategy applied in a new way: explaining how the news outlet plans to allocate their resources in an era of “flooding the zone.”
The bureau speak is v amusing. Currently reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚
Finished reading: Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom 📚
Updated my reading list, while slowly making my way through half a dozen books at once.
Book club categorically disliked this one. Finished reading: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry 📚
Dang, this is good. Currently reading: Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom 📚
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
Finished reading: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange 📚
🧶 Wonky Star quilt
Monday, November 11, 2024 • 1
Posting about my latest quilt for posterity. This is a “wonky star” quilt using 10” precuts, measuring about 60 X 70”. I completed the sides last night and will hand quilt all of it with a mix of big stitch quilting.
Finished reading: Lit by Mary Karr 📚
So long
Thursday, November 7, 2024 • 1
Deactivated my Twitter account after fifteen years (sheesh).
Finished reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚
Finished reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚
Just talked myself into and out of $300 of yarn.
Currently reading: Abortion by Jessica Valenti 📚
Thursday, September 26, 2024 →
It’s the time of year when I can’t get around the nagging feeling that I need to buy yarn (I don’t need any more yarn).
Ephemera
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 • 1
Been playing with micro.blog for a bit now and very much recommend the experience. The interface is friendly and the team behind the app is ultra responsive. My fav features are Bookshelves - and the ability to push new posts to Bluesky and Mastodon. In other news, I got a new bike.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
Finished reading (a couple of months ago): Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco 📚
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
Read this in one sitting, reminded of “The Fire Next Time” in both style and urgency. Finished reading: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚
Finished reading: On Writing by Stephen King 📚
Thursday, September 19, 2024 →
“To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.”
🍳 Bean machine
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • 1
It’s soup season - and I’m a newly-minted member of the bean club. This is more or less my favorite lentil soup recipe, except I deglaze the pot with a healthy dose of dry red wine before adding the lentils and stock, and I stew it with a big sachet of fresh thyme.
Finished reading: James by Percival Everett 📚
🍳 Meat People
Sunday, July 28, 2024 • 1
This butchery on the east side is owner-operated, and features meats only from local, humane farms. In addition, they are a “whole animal” butcher, in that they buy and break down a whole animal at a time, thus offering an array of extremely fresh products from sausage to steaks to specialty cuts (picanha, anyone?). One of the owners was working the counter this Saturday when we came in and greeted us with some suggestions for the day.
Currently reading: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories by Lorrie Moore 📚