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Friday, July 18, 2025

Saving Time, Roundaboutly: Attention Economy Book Roundup on Odell, Hayes, and Newport

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For some reason, I find that I have a lengthy page of notes headed " Saving Time , by Jenny Odell," already here in draft form sin...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Further Reading Lists

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The lending library as vision of the world economy to come. Not only as institution, but as idea: sharing books.  The way it's done onli...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Rose Field Announcement: Philip Pullman and the News

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Philip Pullman does it again. Long-awaited word on the concluding volume of The Book of Dust appeared at the end of April in the  BBC  and  ...
Monday, December 9, 2024

Summer Language Program - Gonzaga University/ Spokane Public Schools

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Awesome experience.  - Wesley Schantz That would be my testimonial. Some of the posters and things I made are probably still around there, e...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Calm Before the Storm

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From the tornado into the hurricane, they tell me. Like going from Kansan Oz to Katrina, or Maria. Hurry up and wait for it. I miss just fro...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Justice and Peace

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I find that there is a strange recognition attached to anything related to the year of one's birth.  So, to take an example at random, w...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bird that Steals Shiny Things: Philip Pullman Among the Poets

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The book I reread Not so much a single book as all the poetry I know by heart, and all the poetry I don’t know by heart and want to. Poetry ...