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By Justin G. on 24SEP11WED

What I’m reading

I read the short book Kissa by Kissa by Craig Mod. After finishing it, I want to make pizza toast and go to Japan.

I read Borges’ A Short History of Iniquity, the first part of the Complete Fictions collection. It is also short, only 64 pages. The first half has to be a setup, much of it is so tame and straightforward. The second half gets going and it feels like your mind is melting a little as the reader (me) is lead to all the bizarre and fantastical ends. I want to go back and see if there are secrets in the first stories that my antenna just wasn’t tuned in to yet.

I also perused the Early Writings in Borges’ Selected Non-fictions. And by perused I mean I read them. They are similarly excellent and also short, 41 pages.

When I finish that, I’m not sure what I’ll read next. Maybe I’ll know by Wednesday.

I’ll read some more of Syntopicon.

What I’m doing

Ugh, running.

Also new notebook week.

What I’m listening to

Music, podcasts, other.

• Martin Stürtzer (YT) Ambient Concert 65 (BC). Martin announced that he is posting these concerts on Bandcamp. This is one I really enjoyed, so I’ll probably pick it up on the next Bandcamp Friday.
• The Rosen Corporation, another ambient set that I really liked.
• Study with Gandalf?

What I’m cooking

Those chickpea salad sandwiches I mentioned last week. Note substitutions: yogurt -> Kewpie mayo, and added some celery. Vegetarian ramen. Tomato risotto, but I’ll mention more about that later. Bittman mushrooms, or bistro mushrooms, or whatever you want to call them.

What I’m watching

• NASA livestream for Starliner landing. Glad it made it back safely!
• Part of the Polaris Dawn launch. Sadly the launch itself was too late in the night.
• Sam and Victor go to Onomichi. It’s another one of my no or almost no talking videos. Is there a proper name for that genre?
• More Archive64 plays TotK.
• Martijn Doolaard.
• Maigomika
• Imamu, new content alert.

Bringing these back online slowly.

• Ripper Street, series on Hulu. In progress.
• Severance, Apple+. In progress.
• The Bear, on Hulu. Finished season one.
• One more episode to go on Reservation Dogs.

What I’m playing

NMS. On the hunt for a good freighter. And some good fish.

Background

Things I am doing off and on.

Ongoing reading projects

These are books that I plan to take my time with. Maybe years.

• Complete Essays by Montaigne.
• The Syntopicon - So dense with ideas.
• Basic Economics by Sowell.
• Collected Fictions and Selected Non-fictions by Borges.

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