What I Read This Week Archive

What I Read This Week: September 6, 2013

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About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.

Goodness, I’m apparently back to my old ways although not nearly as read-y. More watch-y. And considering that one of the things was an almost 30-minute tutorial on color correcting in Photoshop, I think that’s pretty OK.

Real, Actual Books

On the Internet

On Television

  • Project Runway
  • Murder, She Wrote
  • Comedy Bang! Bang! – yep, whole first season

What I Read This Week: August 23, 2013

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About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.

Sunday morning took me by the throat and shook me awake with an unwelcome sore throat. After that nasty little head cold moved in on Monday, I did what most intelligent, capable adults do and watched 10 episodes of Law and Order. That basically sums up this week, which moved wildly from productive, to terrifying, to mopey, touching on jubilant now and again.

Real, Actual Books

On the Internet

  • Got a big dream? Start with one room. by Alexandra Franzen, “Hold the big vision, but focus your love + attention. Don’t start with a skyscraper. Start with one room.”
  • Watched: Amy Sedaris on David Letterman from 9/11
  • Learning To Make Mistakes by Laurie Wagner, “What I want to ask Brene is, can you be fabulous, but without stress? And what does that look like? I know we’re all supposed to be down with “making mistakes” and showing up messy – holy shit – I teach that – but I’m still struggling – maybe not so much on the page, but in life.”
  • Chefs+Tech 8.27.2013
  • The Killing of Lisa Steinberg on CrimeLibrary.com (read after a Law & Order reference)
  • Bill Watterson on life and money, “Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement…”
  • Live Like a Hydra by Buster Benson on Medium, “Goals, habits, and resolutions are often crafted with ambitious expectations that are then susceptible to the first rainy day, sick day, vacation day, holiday, grumpy day, low-energy day, or otherwise non-standard day. Most goals and habits try to ignore the fact that chance occurrences will disturb their best laid plans. And by trying to ignore this random factor, they become extremely vulnerable to them.”
  • In ‘Gone Home’ video game, a family mystery to solve
  • Victorian Fixer-Upper Hits the Market in the Mission
  • Square ready to occupy serendipitous new headquarters in San Francisco
  • The Spark File by Steven Johnson, “ But the key habit that I’ve tried to cultivate is this: every three or four months, I go back and re-read the entire spark file. And it’s not an inconsequential document: it’s almost fifty pages of hunches at this point, the length of several book chapters. But what happens when I re-read the document that I end up seeing new connections that hadn’t occurred to me the first (or fifth) time around: the idea I had in 2008 that made almost no sense in 2008, but that turns out to be incredibly useful in 2012, because something has changed in the external world, or because some other idea has supplied the missing piece that turns the hunch into something actionable.”
  • WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE BEST MUSIC WRITING SERIES?

On Television

Rosemary & Thyme – finished Series 3. No more, weh!
Project Runway – Season 12, whatever episode was next
Annika Bengzton – Studio Sex
Law and Order – Season 1, episodes 1-11

What I Read This Week: August 23, 2013

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About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.

Where does the time go? My minutes march off but where do they go? It is appropriate that with more internet reading, my books and tv watching went down this week. Or was I just busy? Out of the house? Focused on other things? I don’t know why, but this is the result.

Real, Actual Books

On the Internet

On Television

  • Rosemary & Thyme – yup, on to season 3
  • Murder, She Wrote – ahem.

Tale of the Kiddie Canvas: Part 6

I took bristles to this ole thrift store canvas once again a few days ago. The session that yielded this bit o work added quite a bit that I like (overall). The bowl, for one, was a few loose waves of paint here and there. And then also reinforced the swirls.

I had a dream about loose brush strokes a couple nights ago. Perhaps it was the Diebenkorn exhibit, or browsing the illustrated Food Rules, with fun, exuberant images by Maira Kalman. But it could feel the loose color in my fingers.

I’m getting close to the end and it feels like I need to start subtracting and adding one or two final things—images not provided by the original kid that made this. What’s a still life without a flower? Yes, I will add a flower.

(What with the who? Start at the beginning of The Tale of the Kiddie Canvas (and all of its progressions).)

What I Read This Week: August 16, 2013

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About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.

Last Saturday morning I settled in and started reading a new book, The Cuckoo’s Calling. I finished it in two days—almost 500 pages. I thought my eyes might melt out of my head but they didn’t, so I went on to enjoy a whole week’s worth of of reading, watching, and listening—presented below.

Real, Actual Books

On the Internet

On Television

  • Rosemary & Thyme – yup, on to season 3
  • Cosmos: A Personal Voyage – episode 3
  • Project Runway: season 12, episode 4
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