It was a productive stay at writer’s camp. Finished my novel and read Diski’s What I don’t Know About Animals, Haraway’s Manifestly Haraway, and Binet’s The 7th Function of Language. Listened to Pynchon’s The Bloody Edge, and Coats’ Between the World and Me. (Tight race for first place between Coats, Gibson, and Binet.) Also, while […] More >>
Archives for July 2017
Sixes and Sevens
Things are at sixes and sevens up here in writer’s camp. Painted the trim on the shack, mowed my lawns, limed the outhouse, started in on the stand of spruce down the bottom of the field, then got the crazy idea to paint the floor. This was a chore that has needed doing since the […] More >>
Sit Rep
Back in the day, when I was busy defending my country, I would occasionally be required to issue a “Sit Rep.” In official military parlance, the Sit Rep, or Situation Report, is a document issued by an officer to his underlings advising them of military conditions. This useful concept was immediately appropriated by us swabbies […] More >>
The Mendicant Inside Me
If you’ve been collecting, or selling, or trying unsuccessfully to sell – hence collecting books – for any length of time, this has probably happened to you. It involves a book you’ve owned or seen several times in the past, a book with which you think you’re familiar, a known quantity in terms of content, […] More >>
Happy Birthday, Bookman’s Log
Each summer I paint one side of my house. When I was young and strong I’d do the whole thing at one go. But as time went on, I slowed down. I’m doing the back side this year, and seeing the ladder up against the side of the house reminded me that one of the […] More >>