Devastating turn of events for the tournament.
my favorite bit of Feldman's Triadic Memories comes at around 21 minutes, the clarity of the 2nds and 9ths.
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🔗 “I love the em dash”
I also love the em dash. It’s been a part of my personal style for decades—I don’t know where I picked up the habit—maybe Joyce? Dickinson? I believe em dashes can stand in for any other mark. I used to know the unicode shortcut to correctly render an em dash, and I also knew the difference between an “en” and an “em.”
🔗 Non-citizens Don’t Vote
I don’t know why people buy the nonsense on this issue. But the true prevalence of non-citizens voting has been looked into by many states. It just doesn’t happen very often at all. Certainly not to the extent “they’re” trying to sell.
Recent Writing
- Lindsay Vonn Should Not Have Skied at the Olympics whitepapers
- The Morning Star reading
- “The New Yorker — Dec. 13, 2024 reading
- It's still the Gulf of Mexico whitepapers
- Zuckerman Bound reading
- The New Yorker Sept 16 2024 reading
- Mason Dixon reading
- My Brilliant Friend reading
Now
This is a now page. Essentially an answer to the question, “What have you been up to recently?” I update this page as the focuses of my daily life ebb and flow.
Feeling
Last time I updated this page I wrote about Wordle. Since then I cultivated a 65 game streak, then pared back my committment to "I play on occasion when I feel like it," then finally down to "I quit and I'm tired of this game." I still regularly receive updates from people on their daily scores, which I entirely ignore—but which also might rope me back in to the game this summer when things are more relaxed.
I am feeling accomplished and nervous. I've spent a big chunk of time since December renovating this website and its guts. It is now working almost exactly as I always wanted, including RSS and JSON feeds. Now the hard part is finally beginning: the actual production of words and stuff. What I truly believe about myself is that I like to tinker with ideas and systems, but when it comes to having something to say, I shrink and never take the first step. I'm the nosy neighbor who won't live their own life. That changes today.
Thinking
I don't have a single thought these days except Let's try to finish these website projects. Get back to first principles and find the simple things you enjoy. Maybe that is actually a thought I have: I am trying not to be seen wearing AirPods around the house or in the company of others. I am listening to fewer podcasts, and two little tweaks are improving my focus on everything I do.
Watching
- Evil—spooky one feat. Ben from LOST. The will they/won't they plot lantern is too heavily leaned into, but the religious vibes are fun.
- Severence—watched this with multiple household members. Rewatching is rewarding for this one.
- House of the Dragon—took the plunge on the GoT universe last year and blazed through it all. This is why watching TV is dangerous; what a thrilling and soapy timekill.
Listening
Visit my listening page for the most up to date cataglog.
- Elliott Carter's Violin Concerto
- Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto
- End of the Middle, Rich Dawson
- Antigone, Eiko Ishibashi
Reading
- The New Yorker
- The Story of the Lost Child, Ferrante
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Recent Notes
"Sinuosity over angularity as a matter of consistency"
Watching the Rangers spring training game, and the abs challenge system is working as well as it has on the tennis tours for years.
there is a drive to find out today’s STORIES - to be in the know - and yet there is the total CRUSH and glut of info to be had at a glance. And we aren’t made for this.
The voices of older Americans are - fading and faltering?