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the Family Album

Pictures of us, of our friends, of our stuffed animals, of the places we live and the places we visit; all courtesy of Flicker.

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.

Sunday, June 17th, 2018

🦋 Building a banjolele

I spent the past week in Long Branch at a instrument-making workshop taught by Jeff Menzies of Menzies Instruments, building a gourd banjolele -- a whole lot of fun watching the instrument take shape over the course of the week.

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Sunday, June 28th, 2015

🦋 Going for a ride

and loving it!

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

🦋 The Tortex(tm) Talon

...In use!

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Saturday, February 7th, 2015

🦋 Plectra

Wow! I must say I'm enjoying playing with the new picks I recently acquired! It is opening up a whole new sort of relationship with the guitar for me. Some songs and attempts at songs that I've been recording with these new plectra, are at my Soundcloud stream. Look!:

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Thursday, January first, 2015

🦋 Dad and

Yours truly in my father's arms, 1971

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Thursday, July 24th, 2014

🦋 Walking down the path

Seen lately in the READIN family garden --

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Friday, July 11th, 2014

🦋 Back from vacation with some new books

We went to Europe! Stayed with Jacki in Amsterdam, at airbnbs in Gerona and Barcelona, and back to Amsterdam. A wonderful time! As always, a new city for me brings with it the compulsion to visit bookshops -- we were traveling light so I kept my acquisitions to a minimum however. My two favorite bookshops in Barcelona are LibrerÃa Antiquaria Studio on Carrer d'Aribau, a seriously old-school antiquarian bookshop where I bought the first book to catch my eye, fortuitously it was Pere Gimferrer's Primera y Ãºltima poesÃa; and Laie LibrerÃa y CafÃ© on Carrer Pau Claris, where I bought MaimÃ³nides' Guia de los perplejos and Pedro Salinas' Poemas inÃ©ditos.

Also: picked up BonsÃ¡i by Alejandro Zambra at a small used-book shop on the Ramblas; and had my interest in Infinite Jest renewed when I opened the copy that was on the shelf of the apartment we stayed in in Barcelona -- I leafed at random to p. 755, 11 Nov. YDAU, and kept laughing for hours. The first thing I did this morning was head over to Words bookshop in Maplewood and buy a copy, and start it from the front. An employee at the salon where Ellen was having her hair done asked what the book was that was making me laugh so hard, and put it on her reading list.

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2014

🦋 What I've Been Listening To

Moving our furniture around recently included the nice feature of bringing my stereo to an even more accessible spot; I brought upstairs some portion of the records downstairs to add to what was already up here.... I've started a photo album of the collection, snapping a picture of each record I listen to... Check it out!