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Grasshopper Shed Door

[Last Updated: 2022.07.31]
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.30]

Here’s a photo of a grasshopper on the door of the shed in my backyard.

Grasshopper Shed Door

Here’s a photo of a grasshopper on the door of the shed in my backyard.

Grasshopper Shed Door

I took so many shots of this guy but this is the only one I even remotely liked.1 I kind of hate this camera on my phone that tries too much to fix my photos for me. I need to get out our old late-00s DSLR, or get a film camera again, or something. I don’t think my cousin ever gave my film camera back to me, and I didn’t think that was a problem but now I miss it…


  1. I could probably go through the video I took and find some stills to pull out and crop, but I don’t have the patience for that right now. ↩︎

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Reading June 2022 Issue of Poetry

[Last Updated: 2022.07.22]
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.12]

Just read the June 2022 issue of Poetry.

Picture of me holding the June 2022 issue of Poetry Magazine

Just read the June 2022 issue of Poetry.

Picture of me holding the June 2022 issue of Poetry Magazine

Longer, with details: just seriously injured my knee by tripping and falling over my daughter’s bike in the garage - I was rushing through while doing maintenance on our water heater. So, instead of continuing with the water heater, I am laid up with an ice pack in my son’s bedroom, reading the June 2022 issue of Poetry until I feel rested enough to try to go upstairs to my own bedroom.

My favorite entry in the magazine was actually the closing prose essay from Shelby Handler about translating ancient Hebrew texts - “Astrological Speculum,” and Other Objects Found on My Way to the Ancestors

I might write and share more thoughts on the essay at some point - besides being beautifully written and thought provoking, it made me cognizant of some of the Jewish/Hebrew cultural appropriation I once engaged in as a Mormon.

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Reading The Hobbit with my son

[Last Updated: 2022.07.22]
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.14]

I’m reading The Hobbit with my son at bedtime now.

Picture of me holding my copy of The Hobbit that I am reading with my son

I’m reading The Hobbit with my son at bedtime now.

Picture of me holding my copy of The Hobbit that I am reading with my son

We hit 21% completion tonight, so according to my new reading update ‘best practices’ I can post about it now.

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Reading Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

[Last Updated: 2022.07.22]
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.19]

i’m paddling my way through Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, though it is definitely taking me more than a week.

Picture of my Library of America Thoreau volume open to ‘Monday’ from ‘A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers’

I have this Library of America edition, but I’m actually mainly reading it on my phone - Standard Ebooks edition, added to the iOS Books app. The LoA edition has reference notes, so I look at it when I can, but I actually like reading on my phone.

i’m paddling my way through Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, though it is definitely taking me more than a week.

Picture of my Library of America Thoreau volume open to ‘Monday’ from ‘A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers’

I have this Library of America edition, but I’m actually mainly reading it on my phone - Standard Ebooks edition, added to the iOS Books app. The LoA edition has reference notes, so I look at it when I can, but I actually like reading on my phone.

Screenshot of Thoreau Standard Ebook editions in the iOS 'Books' app

From my notebook, June 6, 2022

I think I’m more than 20% of the way into A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers now, so I can officially let myself share it.

Again, though, it’s hard not to think about all the other books I could or should be reading as well.

[Thoreau’s] going off right now about how poetry is the best thing to read and really we should just read poetry and not waste time with anything else. But he’s not exactly writing poetry himself [here], at least not in any traditional idea of poetry.

I want to read Leaves of Grass after this, but I also want to read Walden. And Spring and All. And Catalog of Unabashed Joy. And [Ovid’s] Metamorphosis. And a hundred other things. And a bunch of middle grade and YA stuff. And all the banned books. And all the digital gardening indieweb newsletter stuff. A Week, though. I should give it a week, as it says.

Snapshot of a spread from my notebook, written Monday, June 6, 2022 - portions transcribed above

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My Backyard Desk

[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.18]

Update: my wife referred to this as my “moveable grotto,” which is ridiculous, but probably better. Definitely better.

Original: a view from my backyard “desk” just as I was creating the home page for my new “digital” garden.

At my “desk” in my backyard

Update: my wife referred to this as my “moveable grotto,” which is ridiculous, but probably better. Definitely better.

Original: a view from my backyard “desk” just as I was creating the home page for my new “digital” garden.

At my “desk” in my backyard

It started raining a minute or two after this, so I put away my laptop and waited it out because I didn’t want to go back in. It stopped, and now I’m posting this.

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sun in the elms after the rainstorm

[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.23]

Sun in elms after the rainstorm

Evening sun breaking through the clouds to some of the upper bows of the Siberian Elms after the rainstorm.

Sun in elms after the rainstorm

Evening sun breaking through the clouds to some of the upper bows of the Siberian Elms after the rainstorm.

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morning backyard through bedroom window

[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.24]

morning backyard through bedroom window - 01

morning backyard through bedroom window - 02

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Addenda to My Twitter Bio

[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
[Originally Posted: 2019.02.06]

Terms, conditions, and disclaimers to your reading of the content of this web site and all content I may create or share on twitter or any social network.

Terms, conditions, and disclaimers to your reading of the content of this web site and all content I may create or share on twitter or any social network.

  1. (Retweets = Endorsement) If I retweet you it means I completely approve of and unabashedly endorse not only that tweet, but everything you have ever said and done, as well as everything you will ever do going forward. You have my complete trust and faith in all things at all times. I love you.

  2. Know that I interpret and receive your favorites, retweets, and replies in a like manner, regardless of any protestations you may make to the contrary. Thank you for your endless support.

  3. All thoughts are not my own. I am influenced and manipulated by everything around me. I digest, regurgitate, commodify, and plagiarize nearly everything I find. I am likely an unwitting mouthpiece for various corporate and political interests. I’m not sure if I even have my own thoughts.

Revision: February 6, 2019.

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Iheartfacebook

[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
[Originally Posted: 2019.03.14]

Last night I posted a grumpy response tweet about my wild hope that Facebook and Instagram would just stay broken forever.

Then I thought that maybe that was a little too mean, and I deleted it.

Last night I posted a grumpy response tweet about my wild hope that Facebook and Instagram would just stay broken forever.

Then I thought that maybe that was a little too mean, and I deleted it.

Last night I posted a grumpy response tweet about my wild hope that Facebook and Instagram would just stay broken forever.

Then I thought that maybe that was a little too mean, and I deleted it.

But I’m semi-convinced now that Facebook saw it and took extra-algorithmic measures to try to win me back this morning.

Early today, out of pity or some strange curiosity, I opened Facebook on my phone. (I don’t have the app, I just pull it up in the phone browser.)

There, right at the top of the feed, was one of Kate DiCamillo’s wonderful, rambling posts.

As far as I know, other than publishing books, Kate DiCamillo only posts on Facebook, and her posts are always a refreshing highlight on the platform.

I saw that my newsfeed had been front-loaded with posts from friends and people that I could ONLY find on Facebook.

They have me.

Their algorithm is becoming omniscient.

(Or maybe the disruption and my lack of visiting in a while just meant it actually had a few realish and interesting things to share with me.)

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
[Originally Posted: 2019.07.15]

Screenshot of Posters from some films by or about Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

I’ve now watched every single item in this collection of films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul at least once, and I’m getting pretty obsessed.

Screenshot of Posters from some films by or about Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

I’ve now watched every single item in this collection of films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul at least once, and I’m getting pretty obsessed.

Currently scouring the internet to find what of his short films and installations are available on YouTube or other more obscure spots. I had hoped to find a playlist or a simple filmography web page somewhere curating video links, or if not, create one myself and share it.

Not having a lot of luck, though. His website is nice and detailed, just doesn’t have means provided to actually watch many of the short films described.

So far I did find these little digital video experiments on a youtube account associated with his website, both partly involving dogs. 2019: (sound is important on this one, so turn it up.)

2017:

I might write something more real or complete about Weerasethakul at some point, but for now, just needed to share this. I think for the first time since I’ve gone down the path of trying to watch and learn more about films I’ve found someone who I might be able to call my favorite filmmaker, at least provisionally.

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