Monday, April 8, 2024
Reading roundup
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Sabbatical... Good time to get some reading done... In Ascension Martin MacInnes This 500-pager is at its best at the beginning, as we lear...
Piano women
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Earthwise Productions is a labor of love run by local Palo Alto impresario Mark Weiss. Mr. Weiss has fantastic connections in the jazz and ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Richard Serra, RIP
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His sculptures seem like the work of natural forces while at the same time being intensely human. NYT obit .
Monday, March 25, 2024
Cats and birds
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This blog post by Maximilian Auffhammer about how much people (de)value the view of a wind turbine from their house mentions another oft-he...
Sunday, March 3, 2024
The N'Gustro Affair, by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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I feel a little guilty confessing how much I loved this high-energy piece of toxic political cynicism, Manchette's first novel (1971). I...
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Nice and damp at Hidden Villa
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Along the Long Bunny Loop Trail... Hericium coralloides (coral tooth fungus) with some other stuff; Schizophyllum commune ; and Toxicode...
Reading roundup
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Some good ones... one not so good... My Ántonia Willa Cather Fine story-telling, beautifully written. It is simultaneously two coming-of ag...
Saturday, January 6, 2024
A poem for our times
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For Kenneth and Miriam Patchen Al Young Here I am cutting you these fresh healthy flowers from my sick bed where I toss with nickel il...
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