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pinky! (2025-01 weekly post)

i would like to be making these posts much longer now, or at least more detailed, as in retrospectives or narratives rather than posts. i imagined it as a “resolution” of sorts. but this week S has had a fever, and im mostly caring for her

writing: i’ve been sporadic and i’ve been slow. this is required. the week between christmas and new years is the actual holiday week: time to rest and look at snow and in exaggerated distress ponder if next year it will come. i worked on Scott and Bianca and translations

(im writing this in a put upon rigid voice)

(i am watching a movie as well right now)

2025!

other 2025 posts!

• books

i intended to write a yearly post reviewing what i did but, get this! i waited too long and now its too far into the year!!

cold wind on my arm
the windows open by the heater
there are two of me

we’ll leave thus here a template if i do this next year

Books from 2025!

two excuses before we start:

1. as a child i wasn’t allowed to watch television and had things from which to run away, so i read a lot
2. in my 20s in went to grad school and had to read at least three books a week

this is all to say that

Stats

i read 158 books this year and, again, i wont apologize. this is two less books than last year, so I quess you might say i’m slowing down. i still confuse my gs and qs always tho

i also gave up on 26 books, often early, in case you confuse my obsessiveness for a sort of masochism

Favs (no order)

Paul Celan - 70 Poems

Astounding

Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz

My second time reading. Dude knew that deathly serious stuff is never serious without a few little jokes; or, god no surprise this guy did a suicide

Lucy Ellman - Ducks, Newberryport

I just sank inside this book. I wish it were longer.

J. G. Ballard - High-Rise

Post-facto: i read an intro to a collection of his short stories calling ole JG a “surprisingly normal man”. Sorry, I’ve read this shit. He was not normal

Stephen King - Duma Key

Stephen King tries Murakami. And it’s in Florida!

Garielle Lutz - Complete Stories

If I ever get around to adding reviews to my site bookshelf you’d see how up and down I really am with these, but overall they’re fantastic in a ( me at least) new way

Stephen King - 11-22-63

Only king could write a book about killing lee harvey oswald that’s almost half a self-consciously nostalgic look at the 50s. Like all great king books, he stumbles headfirst into something unpleasant and profound.

Other Notable Books

Gordon Burn - Happy Like Murderers

Realistically, a fave, but i just finished it in the last few days, and its very gruesome. However I’ve already started imitating its voice.

The Animorphs series (finished it this year)

I am 30 or 40 years old and I need to make record of this.

In conclusion

1. This was a year primarily of sci-fi, which I didn’t realize till now. I am trying to write an encyclopedic sci-fi novel, perhaps that’s why.
2. I love to look back at books like this. Because I read voraciously I read these at home, in the park, on the train, on vacation, and so many other places. It’s an accidental collection of small memories

stay awhile partner (2025-52 weekly post)

last week of the year, officially. we’re dropping the next few days into the first week of next year, as our disorderly calendar demands

i am home agian, in real vacation: the post travel time from christmas to the first. this is the real holiday: lay with cats and watch house (md)

wrote: Scott and Bianca stuff, mostly. its their time to shine. i’ve some time back finished the first three “episodes” of the revolution, so i have to enter the complex morass of the third. that means writing randomization scripts also

else: been reading the devestating Happy Like Murderers. such a strange and frightening cycling writing voice. lots of music. how ya do

it casts a strange and compelling light (2025-51 weekly post)

i’m away from home and my lovely shell scripts so instead of recording all i’ve written (scattered fragments and stories, and a return to my three daughters, if i recall), have a list of things i saw in the airport, my favorite semi-public place:

• a trend of men with oddly manicured eyebrows, or at least eyebrows shaved into patterns i didn’t recognize
• a boy looking out the window comparing the approaching cityscape to minecraft, which he has open on his switch
• unfortunately that’s all i wrote down and it’s been days since i been there
• i wrote an essay about airports on tumblr once and someone liked it, but then i deleted my tumblr and i don’t remember what it was like

goodnight, sleep well dear readers. i’m gonna watch youtube and do flash cards :)