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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.

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Longtime readers will remember how excited I was to read Augusto Monterroso's short story "The Dinosaur"* -- today I discover that Monterroso had an august predecessor in Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's story "Baby Shoes" is only six words long, and has inspired a whole genre of six-word micro-stories. Perpetual Folly reprints a BlackBook feature in which 25 major writers -- skewing older-white-male-mid-century -- contributed their six-worders; I'm partial to Brian Bouldrey's contribution, but there is a lot to be said for Norman Mailer's, too. Wired Magazine ran a feature with 92 six-word stories from science-fiction or science-fictiony authors including Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, Bruce Sterling, and more. And Pete Berg maintains a blog at sixwordstories.net dedicated to publishing readers' six-word stories.

* (Follow the link! Nick Boalch is attempting to translate "The Dinosaur" into a comic -- what a great idea.)

posted evening of Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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Mother’s Day came, doubling Oedipus’ pleasure.

This is a Jack Handy-ish form, and this one pulls it off the best.

posted evening of June 8th, 2010 by John Emerson

Disagree -- that one is a clever joke;

“Cyanide? Bitter almonds.” He knew. How?
is a story, a quick psychological portrait.

posted evening of June 9th, 2010 by Jeremy

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➪ At Before You Listen, NickS posts a recent mix tape; he's going to be posting about each of the songs on it over the coming weeks.
➪ The New York Times reports on a large collection of old silent films, once thought lost, being archived and transferred from nitrate stock to more stable material.
➪ "Reality is a membrane of the banal spread over the incon­ceivable" -- Robyn Hitch­cock talks with Daniel Brock­man about living on the edge of apocalypse.
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