Hitting The Links: 2/11/24
An exercise in accounting, a ton of links, and my weak link
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Accounting Archeology
Appointment with the accountant tomorrow for 2023 taxes, so I’ve been excavating a pile of 22 months’ worth of bills, bank & credit card statements, etc. this morning, to make sure my numbers are okay (and to file away all the stuff I never got around to at the end of 2022, for whatever reason). It’s an interesting forensic exercise, reconstructing what passes for my life.
Her leaves
Thin and yellowing
As parchment
But held
Like prayers
Or Wishes
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And now, let’s hit the links!
Links & Such
Recent Virtual Memories Show podcasts: Donald J. Robertson • Elizabeth Flock • David Thomson • Sammy Harkham • Ed Subitzky • Chris Silverman
RIP José Delbo . . . RIP Mojo Nixon . . . RIP Seiji Ozawa . . . RIP Henry Fambrough . . .
Also, Toby Keith died.
Maybe instead of superforecasters they should call themselves supercassandras.
Wim Wenders, Tokyo, and toilet cleaners? I’m there!
Maris Kreizman on how books are not bullet-points.
Current/Recent Reading
PLASTIC - Scott Guild
Underworlds - Stephen Ellcock
“What shapes you is the way you are toward your family rather than the family itself.”
—Karl Ove Knausgaard (tr. Don Bartlett), My Struggle: Book 2
I finished book 1 yesterday and started book 2 before bed.
Fractured Body, Fractured Mind
My neck situation got immensely worse, but I’m not going into details here, except to say my doctor wants me to do NO EXERCISE AT ALL for a month, ahead of my next consultation. Not even my morning 15-minute routine. Meanwhile, I’m on a steady diet of anti-inflammatories & muscle relaxants. I’ve been walking 2-3 miles a day. It’s felt better this weekend, but I’m not going to push my luck. Anyway, it’s a good thing no one reads this far, because I wouldn’t want you to worry. If you ask nice, I’ll send you a shirtless pic from what may have been My Final Workout.
Until Next Time
Thanks for reading this far! I’ll be back on Wednesday with a new episode and some art, and on Sunday with links, books, & non-workout craziness, & who knows maybe a little profundity or something.
Well I may shake your hand / But I won't know your name / The joke in your language / Don't come out the same / There's times when I'm down and / There's nothing to blame,