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Somehow, Cleveland has survived, with her gray banner unfurled -- the banner of Archangelsk and Detroit, of Kharkov and Liverpool -- the banner of men and women who would settle the most ignominious parts of the earth, and there, with the hubris born neither of faith nor ideology but biology and longing, bring into the world their whimpering replacements.

— Gary Shteyngart


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.

🦋 One State, One Sentence

There is a fun meme floating around, which I saw at Jackmormon's place and at Matt Weiner's. Neither of them thought to tag me; but I am doing it myself: write one sentence about each state you have visited.

  • California: California is my base line for comparison, it is manifold, it defies description.
  • Wisconsin: I wish I had been old enough to form a memory of Madison, the summer we lived there.
  • Missouri: I love the St. Louis Children's Museum.
  • Iowa: All I remember of Iowa is a snowy day and a house with red trim.
  • Oregon: My favorite rural experiences took place in Oregon.
  • Pennsylvania: Philadelphia is a fine city for walking around.
  • New York: A vast number of opportunities to have a good time can be found in the city.
  • Illinois: Mostly I remember driving in Chicago, with my newly acquired license, and freaking Gary out with the quality of my driving.
  • Florida: I watched Pulp Fiction in Boca Raton.
  • Connecticut: Unlike any other place I've been in Connecticut, Danbury seems like a very pleasant town to me.
  • Massachussetts: What can I say about Massachussetts that has not already been said?
  • New Hampshire: In New Hampshire I learned how to build a chair.
  • Vermont: In Vermont we mostly ride our bikes.
  • Maine: It took a long time driving to get to Maine but we had fun there.
  • Rhode Island: We rounded out our New England tour by walking around Providence.
  • District of Columbia: DC is not a very good place to be at loose ends.
  • Ohio: I visited Oberlin, and nothing about it seemed distinctively Ohioan.
  • New Jersey: I live in New Jersey.
  • Kansas: The greatest night sky I can remember having seen was from a Kansas field.

And there are probably some others, but I do not remember them. (Illinois and Florida added after some consultation with my memory.... Oops! And Kansas.)

Update: Jackmormon is now claiming the right to tag me retroactively.

Update: Richard Mason is mandating that everyone join this meme.

posted morning of Sunday, March 19th, 2006

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