Yea! We were counted! Hello This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of Sonoma County Registrar of Voters. Your ballot for the November 3, 2026, General Election was received and counted. Thank you for voting! Questions? Call (707) 565-6800 or email rov-absentee@sonomacounty.gov. Visit https://sonomacounty.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/registrar-of-voters/about-us for election information. “Where’s My Ballot?” … [Read more…]
While reading this essay on the book Riverwork by Lisa Robertson in the New York Review, Ange Mlinko used this phrase: Lucy and her companionable dialogue with Chateaubriand, which builds to an ekphrastic sublime: ekphrastic – adjective – pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid The Wikipedia entry for Ekphrasis gives some clear, lucid examples of how … [Read more…]
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker (2025) As a tech reader, I did skip some of the book’s core, it covered things I already was aware of. Becker did provide good background information on some of the principals’ manifestos, early writing, education and influences. He also covers some of the people in the Effective Altruism … [Read more…]
“The Way Through The Woods” by Colin Dexter made it home a few days ago from a small free library up the hill from our place. I’ve not read any Dexter in decades and now recall why he has sold millions of books. Chief Inspector Morse is as irascible as ever and all the usual … [Read more…]
Elisabeth Waldo Dies at 107; Fused Indigenous and Western Sounds A classically-trained violinist, she incorporated traditional instruments native to Latin America in Western-style scores to create an atmospheric hybrid. Ms. Waldo continued to perform and compose until she was over 100, largely on the West Coast. David – Los Angeles · 4h ago I spent … [Read more…]
Battleship Potemkin (1925) M (1931) The Baker’s Wife (1938) The Killers (1946) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1948) Begone Dull Care (1949) Neighbours (1952) Tokyo Story (1953) Seven Samurai (1954) The Ladykillers (1955) The Fabulous World of Jules Verne aka Invention for Destruction (1958) Directed by Karel Zeman The Actor’s Revenge (1963) 21-87 (1964) 23 Skidoo … [Read more…]
esculent adjective: fit to be eaten; edible. noun: a thing, especially a vegetable, which is fit to be eaten. from Latin esculentus, from esca ‘food’, from esse ‘eat’. ——————- vitiate : spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of Seen in the New York Times, in a column … [Read more…]
His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia. Obituary in The New York Times.
Finished rereading Vineland today. First read it when it came out in 1990 and I don’t recall reading it again until recently, 35 years later. I’ve recently reread Inherent Vice, and of course, Shadow Ticket, his most recent and often, when idle, between books, I’ll pull one of his books down, open it randomly and … [Read more…]
In The Guardian is a fine piece on how Jessica Williams found and used prepared piano as an extension of her musical world. I can’t find her album “Blue Abstraction” yet, but wanted to leave this marker for future use. Williams died in 2022. Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave … [Read more…]