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Christmas: the pressure was off as most of my friends were away for the holidays. I could focus on amusing myself - what to read? what to listen to? what to eat? (see below). Went for walks. Looked at all the pretty decorations.

Starting the year: I've been enjoying myself preparing for my small web workshop - which is good because everyone says the small web is supposed to be about pleasure!

Then: I need to pull together my notes on Nick Monfort's Taroko Gorge for a CDH presentation in March. Last night went to a book launch for his OUTPUT - An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953-2023 at UofT. 
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Reading:

Penman, Ian. Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors. Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023.

Robertson, Ray. The Old Man in the Mirror Isn't Me : Last Call Haiku. Exile Editions, 2020.

Walser, Robert. Looking at Pictures. New Directions, 2015.

Sirius, R. U., et al. Counterculture through the Ages : From Abraham to Acid House. Villard, 2004.

Jordan, Robert. The Fires of Heaven. 1993. (Book Five of The Wheel of Time)
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Listening:

-Japanese Ambient

--MEITEI, Komachi (2019)
--H. Takahashi, Escapism (2018)
--Yoshi Horikawa, Wandering (2012)

-Psychedelic
 
--Freak Scene, Psychedelic Psoul (1967)
--The Third Bardo, I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time ((1966)
--The Deep, Psychedelic Moods (1966)
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Eating/Cooking:

Stilton (bought a big hunk for the holidays!) with Abate pears - mmm.

Working on Ramen recipes. I got some lovely red & black melamine bowls. (odd childhood memory - 7 years old, or so, getting a pair of black corduroy slippers with red interiors and asking my father, "why do these colours look so good together?")
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Watching:

-Solo Leveling on Crunchyroll (2024)
-Citadel: Honey Bunny on Prime (2024)
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Browsing:

-Syllabus Project
-Kristoffer Tjalves's Naive Weekly
-from a secret location: Poetry, little mags, small presses, and transient documents from the mimeo era and beyond
-Brion Gysin: Calligraffiti of Fire (1985) October Gallery (2008)
-Taroko Gorge - Nick Montfort (2009)

Links list:

https://syllabusproject.org/archives
https://www.naiveweekly.com/about
https://fromasecretlocation.com/about-from-book-to-web/
https://octobergallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2008gys
https://nickm.com/taroko_gorge/
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Quotes:

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge - Laurel Schwulst

I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as a form of resistance. - J. R. Carpenter

I evoke the term 'handmade web' in order to make a correlation between handmade web pages and handmade print materials, such as zines, pamphlets, and artists books. - J. R. Carpenter

A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting. - Parimal Satyal

The range of possibilities is vast: You can tend a website for decades, or just a few days. It can be laser-focused on a single topic, or present a vibrant mix. It can lean technical with diagrams and code, or poetic with artistic expression. It can address an entire community, or a single loved one. - Chia Amisola
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...updated January 21, 2025