Moby-Dick: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Canon
I’ve been hearing the advice to “toss out the canon” given to readers more and more of late (most recently in Austin Kleon’s email newsletter). While I agree that there…
Part 3: Writing and Lit Podcasts, or the Terrifying Specter of People Talking About the “Writing Life”
(I love podcasts. I listen around 2 or 3 hours a day between my commute, time at the gym, and household chores. This is part 3 of 4.) These are all…
Podcast Roundup Part Deux: The Golden Age of Radio(-style)
(I love podcasts. I listen around 2 or 3 hours a day, between my commute, time at the gym, and household chores. I’ll be going over my favorites in the…
Podcast Roundup Part 1: Stories
(I love podcasts. I listen around 2 or 3 hours a day, between my commute, time at the gym, and household chores. I’ll be going over my favorites in the…
Time Capsules
I’m fascinated by unintentional time capsules. A week ago I picked up The Doonesbury Chronicles (1972) at Phoenix Books for a dollar and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it. To be…
TV?
This is an incomplete list of TV shows I have started, then not finished out of lack of interest: Boardwalk Empire Breaking Bad Game of Thrones Hannibal Mad Men I…
Used Book Stores
Bakersfield and the surrounding area is a bit of a literary desert. We have one Barnes and Noble. We have a handful of Christian “bookstores”, but most of their real…
On the hazards of voice recognition software, or, “I will not sink with a robot girl”
As I have written about on here before, I carry a small, volant notebook with me at all times. After realizing how many words I'd crammed in there, I decided…
Reading, Working, Reading
I worked private security for a little over a year as an undergrad. It was one of the worst jobs I’ve ever done. I took it out of absolute financial…
Bookmark That
I usually read four or five books at a time. I’ve done this ever since I was around nine, when I got a public library card and realized that the…