Permanent link to my Amazon collection of books. I'm using it as a starting point. Taking suggestions for book collection database (before I finally create the one I invented in my head in 1983).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/ays?view=_cat_agg_all&viewType=thicklist&asin=&viewShared=0&targetCustomerId=A3BY7ZUBW2P76P&searchTerms=&sortCol=dateAcquired&sortDir=desc
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Synchronicity or Unconscous Selection? (notes)
I have noticed some synchronicity in some of the media I have been consuming. Themes and memes overlapping and repeating. Even a common tone of voice in some cases. As I thought about this just a little bit it occurred to me that this is natural, since I am the one choosing the books and movies and television I take in. But sometimes I feel certain things jumped in my path, rather than me seeking them out.
Rather than going back to the beginning, I'm going to start with the most recent. I'm going to use this as a working document, so perhaps I shall yank it back to draft status. Perhaps not.
I'm watching Wall E as I type this post. My son Jake is not happy about me not watching the screen, so I'll get this started and come back. Wall E, with its theme of survivors of an apocalypse, comes fresh on the heels of my viewing of I Am Legend, with Will Smith. And that, followed my reading of Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank, which followed When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth, and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow. Most recently, I read Eat the Document: A Novel, by Dana Spiota.
Hopefully on my next revision or next post I will begin to make some sense of the shared zeitgeist I feel from these disparate sources.
Rather than going back to the beginning, I'm going to start with the most recent. I'm going to use this as a working document, so perhaps I shall yank it back to draft status. Perhaps not.
I'm watching Wall E as I type this post. My son Jake is not happy about me not watching the screen, so I'll get this started and come back. Wall E, with its theme of survivors of an apocalypse, comes fresh on the heels of my viewing of I Am Legend, with Will Smith. And that, followed my reading of Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank, which followed When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth, and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow. Most recently, I read Eat the Document: A Novel, by Dana Spiota.
Hopefully on my next revision or next post I will begin to make some sense of the shared zeitgeist I feel from these disparate sources.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
An Ode to Winter in Vermont
I'm back home in Los Angeles and am as happy as a pig in the mire. I had a great time in Vermont. Wonderful to visit with family. I will post more soon, but wanted to get these two photos up. This is for all the friends who visited Vermont with me over the years. Though it was wintry and cold when I was there in December/January, it was beautiful too. I don't know that I ever watched the sunset before when in Vermont, but you can believe I'll be watching in the future. On the left is the hill leading to Grandma Thompson's back 40. The other photo is the sunset as seen out the window of what is now the mudroom and was the woodshed.
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