Author: jkonrath
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City of Gold (2015)
City of Gold is a documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold. I’m ambivalent about the current spate of foodie-oriented TV and movies, but this was less of that and more about an interesting and quirky artist, and the real main character was the city of Los Angeles. One of the main focus points…
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11/20
It is winter here now, so it is 50-something, raining, and the sky is dark at noon. It will be like this until February. I know it sounds wonderful if you’re in freezing temps and a foot of snow, but this is when the SAD kicks in full-time. I dug out the verilux light and…
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Stoneridge
I had yesterday and today off, and I was bored of walking in my neighborhood, so I drove to the nearest mall, like an honest-to-satan mall mall, and not a bunch of stores next to each other with a fake city square in the middle of it. The closest mall to me is in Pleasanton,…
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Boxes
I recently found this excellent Jon Ronson documentary about going through the boxes that Stanley Kubrick left behind. Check it out on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/78314194. The basic gist of it is Ronson was contacted by Kubrick’s assistant for a copy of a documentary of his, and before he got a chance to catch up with him, he…
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New Interview at Paragraph Line
Yo: I was interviewed by John Sheppard over at Paragraph Line. Check it out here: http://www.paragraphline.com/2016/10/14/interview-jon-konrath/ If you’re into reading interviews with me, there’s a whole list of them on my books and stories page. If you’re into tacos, you might want to check out this new place called “Taco Bell.” Very affordable and authentic…
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Writers vs. Authors vs. Scammers
I keep thinking about the argument of writer versus author, and then saw this interesting news item about a scammer who made millions publishing junk ebooks on Amazon: http://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-inside-a-million-dollar-amazon-kindle-catfishing-scam/ The summary is that a guy set up a small empire publishing hack e-books about homesteading, weight loss, vitamins, healthy lotions, and whatever Whole Foods-oriented how-to…
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Nashville and Memphis
I went to Nashville and Memphis last weekend, just a quick four-day getaway thing with another couple from New York. Pictures: Nashville and Memphis Various thoughts, because I am too lazy to write a whole entry: Everything has music in Nashville. Like, if you go to get your oil changed, the 15-minute jiffy lube place is…
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Death of the Concord Mall
I didn’t hear about this, and I saw it coming years ago, but the default mall of my childhood, the Concord Mall, is dead. I’ve written far too much about this mall in the past, but it’s time for me to drive in the last nail and ramble on about it a bit more, so here…
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London 2016
I’m back from a week-long trip to London. Had a decent time, but caught a cold and flew back with it, which has rendered me deaf, voiceless, and stupid. Spent the weekend on NyQuil, trying to sleep it off, but I’m still not there yet. The weather wasn’t entirely cooperative, but that meant more time…
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The iCloud Music Library Different Version of a Song Thing
I’ve been having some odd problems with iCloud Music LIbrary and Apple Music. Here’s a description and walkthrough of the issue, partly so I won’t forget it in six months when something completely different doesn’t go sideways, and partly so there’s a record of it somewhere on google, because googling on stuff like “iTunes different…