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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.
Besides the Magdalene to the right (who seems like a appropriate emblem for this site), I was really taken with this picture of Philippe de Croÿ, the right half of a diptych:
posted evening of Monday, October 12th, 2009 ➳ More posts about Pretty Pictures
A new issue of The Quarterly Conversation hits the stands today, including a very interesting write-up of NYC author Eugene Marten's Waste, which Scott Wilson recommends for those who can "deal with a shocking amount of physical and psychological trauma distilled down into sharp, tight sentences."
LanguageHat links to Roger Ebert's reflctions on the books that furnish his life, books that "pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor," like "little shrines to my past hours."
