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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.

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🦋 Swing Low

Trying to do something with the violin by itself -- no voice, no guitar. Here's what I came up with:


It almost works, I think -- there are places where it is a little hard to follow the melody without lyrics but they are short in duration, the song comes back quickly.

posted afternoon of Sunday, May 16th, 2010
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I played this on my laptop and my cat jumped up on my lap. I think it liked it. It also likes The Cure if that gives you any idea of its taste in music.

posted afternoon of May 24th, 2010 by Barbara

Thanks, Barbara's cat! Glad you liked it. The Cure performing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is (at least) an interesting idea.

posted afternoon of May 24th, 2010 by Jeremy

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What's of interest:

➪ On the NY Times' op-ed page, three writers examine the new availability of domain names in exclusively non-Latin scripts.
➪ At Before You Listen, NickS and Matt are discussing Soul both mainstream and underappreciated. A fine observation from Matt:
The dissemination of music into the ‘mainstream’ isn’t some pseudo-Darwinian process where we can make optimality assumptions.
With links to lots of beautiful music.
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