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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.
No link or video (natch), but one of my favorite memories of hearing a busker playing in the subway is of a young Latino guy in the Times Square station playing this song with a sort of Reggae beat, musta been back in '96 or something.
I saw the Carolina Jug Stompers at last weekend's Hoboken Music Festival, along with a huge crowd; then last night I caught up with them (well just with WB Reid and his wife Bonnie, and jug master Luke Faust) in a much more intimate setting at Maxwell's -- there were about as many people in the audience as there were on stage. Fantastic music both shows.
posted morning of October 5th, 2013: 1 response ➳ More posts about Music
Alice Oswald has won the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing for her astonishing Memorial. Here is the final scene of her vision of the Trojan War, the death of Hector:
posted evening of October third, 2013: Respond ➳ More posts about Iliad
Jugador, son tus apuestas
el casino y nada más;
Jugador, no hay casino,
se hace casino al apostar.
Al apostar se hace el casino,
y al lanzar las fichas en el fieltro
se oÃa el dinero que nunca
se va a poder recuperar.
Jugador no hay casino
sino monedas en la mar.
