23 Monday Dec 2019
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I haven’t written anything over the past couple weeks, due to the gloomy weather, fatigue from a lingering sinus infection, and sadness over Gaia’s passing. So I’ll ease back into things with this monthly round-up. Feel free to share your own doings in the comments!
Reading: Debbie Harry’s memoir, Face It. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (for the first time in…a long time!).
Audio: Annie Lennox, A Christmas Cornucopia
22 Friday Nov 2019
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Reading: Just started Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, because I’ve never read it and I’m preparing for a trip to Savannah.
Audio: I recently watched a documentary about the Laurel Canyon sound of the mid-60s. It was a mediocre sort of film, but now I’m listening to various bands from that era and remembering how much I love The Byrds.
Video: Waiting for The Irishman to come to Netflix…
23 Wednesday Oct 2019
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Reading: Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a favorite of my pre-teen and teen years that I haven’t revisited in a very long time.
Audio: Blondie.
Video: A documentary about Studio 54 on Netflix.
23 Monday Sep 2019
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Fall is here!
Reading: Getting ready to jump into Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
Audio: Some episodes of the “Dressed” podcast
Video: Finally watching “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Art: The World of Anna Sui at the Museum of Arts and Design!
21 Wednesday Aug 2019
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Reading: Re-reading Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Starting Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City, a Boxwalla selection.
Audio: I’m starting to listen to some fashion history podcasts.
Video: “The Great Hack” on Netflix
Art: Radical Love at the Ford Foundation Gallery
15 Monday Jul 2019
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Time for a mid-month check-in!
Reading: Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Audio: The cast recording of the new Oklahoma! revival
Video: The new season of Stranger Things
Art: Hudson Rising at the New-York Historical Society
19 Wednesday Jun 2019
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Reading: Ali Smith’s Autumn and Winter
Audio: Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars
Video: New episodes of Endeavour on Channel 13
Art: Leonora Carrington at Gallery Wendi Norris’s “off-site” NYC space
20 Monday May 2019
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Reading: Leïla Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny
Audio: The Police (my brother occasionally reminds me to go back and remember how great they were)
Video: The final episodes of “Game of Thrones,” of course. Valar morghulis.
22 Monday Apr 2019
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Reading: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Audio: Finally getting into St. Vincent, a decade or so after everyone else
Video: The final season of Game of Thrones
