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Reading Log: Babel
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.04]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I'm reading Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang again. [ ↻ 25% ] 📚
Reading with my son at bedtime some nights. (Only once in a while because most nights my bedtime is earlier than his now.)
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Listening Log: LOWER
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.04]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I've been listening to LOWER by Benjamin Booker. 🎵
This is a really solid collection of songs, quite liking it.
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Reading Log: Turtle Island
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.04]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I stopped reading Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America - with Kate Nelson and Kristen Donnelly by Sean Sherman. [ Did Not Finish ] 📚
Need to return to library, but placing on hold again to continue reading later.
This is a cookbook to read all the way through, as much about history and culture and how foodways tie everything together as it is a gathering of recipes
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Playing Log: Hyrule Warriors - Age of Imprisonment
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.02]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I've been playing Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. [ Paused at ?% ] 🎮
My son received this for Christmas, I decided to try it tonight. Probably will play some more in the future.
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Pictures Not Taken
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.02]
[Last Updated: 2026.01.03]
This is a catalog of minor regrets.
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ART is PUNK is JOY | Picture Not Taken
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.02]
[Last Updated: 2026.01.17]
ART
is
PUNK
is
JOY1
strong strokes of white paint on the back of the person’s long coat
walking down 1100 East toward Sugarhouse
drizzly dark January afternoon
cold but not as cold as it maybe should be
(4:03:18 PM - Salt Lake City (40.728079, -111.859654))
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Reading Log: What It Is
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.02]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I stopped reading What It Is by Lynda Barry. [ Paused at 34% ] 📚
Might try some of the activities in this and/or in Syllabus, but for now I’m just reading through the “essay questions” (blue-paged section.)
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Writing Spot Snapshots 2025-12-31 and 2026-01-01
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.01]
[Last Updated: 2026.01.01]
I want to learn how to take honest photographs with my phone.1 Until then, I just have quick snapshots that I feel inclined to share for some reason.2
This was my walking destination and writing spot yesterday morning.
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My 2026 Music Listening Log
[Originally Posted: 2026.01.01]
[Last Updated: 2026.02.28]
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Reading Log: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
[Originally Posted: 2025.12.31]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. 📚
More notes and thoughts on this book and Vuong perhaps forthcoming…