Month: November 2017
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Maui
I spent last week in Maui, as a combination tenth-anniversary trip and Thanksgiving. Sorted through the photos, vaguely, but I’ve been too busy to get any words down on it. Looking back, I guess I haven’t written about my previous visits there, but we went in 2013 and 2015. Pictures of the previous visits are…
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KONCAST Episode 10: Ryan Werner
http://koncast.libsyn.com/episode-10-ryan-werner In this episode, I talk to writer, publisher, musician, and lunch lady Ryan Werner. He is the author of Shake Away These Constant Days, Murmuration, If There’s Any Truth In a Northbound Train, and Soft. He plays guitar in Young Indian and numerous other bands. He also runs Passenger Side books. Links from this…
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Dü You Remember?
Quick link to a podcast about Hüsker Dü, called Dü You Remember: https://www.thecurrent.org/collection/husker-du/ (It’s also on iTunes, etc. I just searched for it in the Podcast app, but I’m still on iOS 10, before Apple completely fucked it, so your mileage may vary.) This was a great five-part audio documentary on the band, from Minneapolis…
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WordPerfect for Mac
A stupid memory… I was thinking about how I used to love WordPerfect on the Classic Mac OS. It wasn’t a port of DOS WP 5.1; a different dev team wrote their own program, and the company called it WordPerfect, so it worked much faster. I always found it better than Word on the old…
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pre-digital observations
A bunch of thoughts, no particular order: Try going in your kitchen or bathroom and finding a product with a printed package that doesn’t have a URL on it. Pick up food boxes, condiments, pet food, candy bars, canned drinks, toothpaste… anything. Everything has a web address on it. It’s like an address having a…
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Latest reading
I’ve given up on Goodreads, and I haven’t been tracking my reading as of late, and maybe I should be doing that. Here’s a few things I’ve finished recently, in no particular order. Tim O’Brien – July, July Probably twenty years ago, I had to read The Things They Carried for an undergrad writing class,…
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Mindhunter
I marathon-ed out Mindhunter over the last few days on Netflix. I couldn’t remember the damn name, and for the first few episodes, kept calling it Brainminder, which sounds like a Tupperware product for zombies. Anyway. It’s a David Fincher-produced thing – he also directed four episodes. Set in 1977, early days of FBI profiling,…