Category: Books & Reading
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Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times
Neil Peart, 2004 I am an unabashed Rush geek, but perhaps even more so, as a lapsed drummer and a lover of books and thought, a fully-formed Neil Peart geek – which sorts me into an even more obscure niche of weirdness. I’d read most of his books, but had missed a few and the…
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
Posted in: Books & ReadingNick Cave & Seán O’Hagan, 2022 My introduction to Nick Cave was 1997’s The Boatman’s Call with his band The Bad Seeds and I dug it but never really listened to much of his other stuff. I’d heard him name dropped here and there and I think I maybe caught some of the press surrounding…
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Riding Out The Skaz Loop
I recently finished reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders and really enjoyed it. I highlighted a few sections and have had them rolling around in my head, most notably on some recent bike rides. I’ve been…
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Stoic Joy
“We normally characterize an optimist as someone who sees his glass as being half full rather than half empty. For a Stoic, though, this degree of optimism would only be a starting point. After expressing this appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his…
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Attention, attention.
“The fundamental thing is that you can’t escape the attention economy.” – Michael Goldhaber So as I was snowshoeing around my backyard, writing this post in my head, I had a good chuckle at myself. I could tell, just outlining it, that it was going to be a long post and that meant automatically in…
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Passing a Note
I was reading the post Speak the Wild Words and it’s good, you should check it out. This stuck out to me: Craftivism is a kind of anathema to slacktivism, which is the more common path of protest these days – yelling loudly into Facebook to try and effect change. Craftivism, is quieter and gentler, it generates…