29 Wednesday Jul 2020
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July!! How are you holding up?! We’re having a heat wave right now so I’m laying low…which isn’t much of a change.
Reading: Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the Bone. I highly recommend this novel.
Audio: Lots of Blondie lately.
Continue reading30 Tuesday Jun 2020
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Reading: Just finished W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.
Audio: The Cure, especially The Top.
Video: Tell Me Who I Am on Netflix. (Intense.) Never Have I Ever. (Warm-hearted.)
23 Monday Mar 2020
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Reading: A collection of Fran Lebowitz essays that I haven’t read in a while, for comic relief.
Audio: The news. Too much news. And a disco playlist that a colleague created for Spotify, to clear my mind afterwards.
Video: “Schitt’s Creek”…more welcome comic relief.
27 Thursday Feb 2020
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Reading: Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle, picked up from the book swap pile at work.
Audio: Some disco playlists, to get ready for a project at work
Video: Parasite. And the last few episodes of The Good Place. I really loved this show.
27 Monday Jan 2020
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Happy 2020 and Year of the Rat! I’m doing this list a little later in the month than usual. What have you been up to lately?
Reading: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser.
Audio: I just realized that WNYC’s “American Standards” has a streaming channel. How did I not know this?!
Video: Season 3 of The Crown. Some really outstanding actors in this season, including the ones who portray Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
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
