The Year of Living Musically
{ Monthly Archives }
I had thought that my friends were kidding when they mentioned squid ink pasta. Had I ever wondered whether squid ink would be edible, I would probably have guessed that it wasn’t. Apparently it is. (Whether it would be kosher is a different question. And I don’t think it would be vegan friendly. I don’t have the slightest clue whether it would be halal.)
As I’d mentioned earlier, I’ve catalogued my DVD library (or, more accurately, the house DVD library — while the great majority of discs are mine, a few belong to housemates, though I’m blurry as to which). The collection is online here. I keep forgetting which DVDs I own, though I tend to remember the CDs, which seems odd, since I have several dozen times more CDs than DVDs.
Reading Fred’s post to his blog in July about books his daughter was reading, I was inspired to wonder about The Garden of the Plynck. Back in college (or before?), I had read something by one of my favorite writers, ::wikipedia(”Theodore Sturgeon”,”Theodore Sturgeon”):: in which he had said that that book had inspired him when he was young. I’d been looking for it since, intermittently, but it was impossible to get.
I now see that it has dropped out of copyright, and the Gutenberg Project has it! It’s online at several sites in several formats.
It’s definitely landing on my “gotta read this” list.
Maybe it was the odd chill in the still-dry air; maybe it was that most of the crazed Europeans had run out of August days to spend here (though one family did get into a furious argument in Italian at my register as each tried to pay — one with a credit card, one with crumpled dollar bills, and one by dumping a small bag of change on the counter and trying to figure out the values of each coin in the mound — for one book; I stood, arms by my side, and waited, until the older man waved the charge card in the air in an odd gesture, inscrutable and possibly obscene, and got the other two to back down); maybe it was that the back-to-school materials were gone, and we were already getting memos about how earlier memos about the holiday schedule were wrong; but it was, quite ominously, beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.
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OK, as John suggested, I’ve linked to the atom feed from the sidebar. Some problems with formatting on the page (have to finally learn ::wikipedia(”CSS”,”CSS”):: I suppose), but I have to trudge off to the disc mines now…
As many of you know, I’ve been working for a long time on publishing my father’s novel, Troika. Unfortunately, it’s being released posthumously, though he did get to see a near-final printed copy. The text is now ready to roll, pending one fix that’s had me stuck for a few months. Continue Reading »
Well, here I am again. It’s been a while. In addition to the usual delays and procrastinations, I finally found that the blog software that I had been running had grown unusable. The comment spammers had discovered it, and were slamming the site with junk. The developer of the software had run out of time and patience to battle the software, and suggested that those of us who found it to be a problem might move on. Continue Reading »