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Somehow, Cleveland has survived, with her gray banner unfurled -- the banner of Archangelsk and Detroit, of Kharkov and Liverpool -- the banner of men and women who would settle the most ignominious parts of the earth, and there, with the hubris born neither of faith nor ideology but biology and longing, bring into the world their whimpering replacements.

— Gary Shteyngart


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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.

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🦋 Truing

Last week, Sylvia finished up a bicycle repair class she's been taking at summer camp. Today, Tom Reingold, who taught the class, invited her over for a lesson in wheel-truing -- the last step to getting her new bike ridable. It is a blue Jamis Ranger of recent vintage which Tom found in his ramblings in need of lubrication and tuning-up, and a new seat. And it's all done! Sylvia took her first ride on it this evening.

I'm impressed -- I must have been 14 or 15 before I did a full tune-up on a bike. Click through for more pictures of the bike repair.

posted evening of Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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WOW!! I am SUPER impressed. Truing a whell is not for the faint-hearted. Sylvia, you are AMAZING!

posted evening of July 26th, 2011 by George

Congrats! I was about 25 :-)

posted morning of July 29th, 2011 by Bill

Yeah I had a lot of help from my dad...

posted morning of July 29th, 2011 by Jeremy

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➪ The University of North Dakota is digitizing the archives of their annual writers' conference; take a look at the 1974 page for City Lights in North Dakota -- film of young Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Rexroth, Corso and more. (Thanks for the link, Substance!)
➪ At the Village Voice, Roy Edroso's heartfelt eulogy for Amy Winehouse is beautiful and moving, as is Maura Johnston's tribute.
(Comments to Roy's piece are worth reading as well.)
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