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Me and Sylvia on the canal in Qibao (April 2011)

READIN

Jeremy's journal

The alternatives are not placid servitude on the one hand and revolt against servitude on the other. There is a third way, chosen by thousands and millions of people every day. It is the way of quietism, of willed obscurity, of inner emigration.

— J.M. Coetzee


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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.

🦋 Sad News

Richie Shulberg (aka Citizen Kafka) passed away at home last night. I'm really sorry to hear about this, meeting him always lifted my spirits. Richie is the guy who got me interested in old-time music and bluegrass -- I first met him in the late 90's when he was leading a weekly jam at a bar in Chinatown, and I associate the months I attended this jam session with the beginning of my developing a musical ear and a musical style. Every time I have run into him since then he's asked after my music and my life, and spent some time talking with me -- my memory of him is of somebody who always took an interest. He will be missed.

Here are Richie (in the yellow shirt) and the Wretched Refuse String Band, playing Jalopy in Brooklyn last spring:

posted afternoon of Sunday, March 15th, 2009

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