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Aug 22, 2024: 😥 📺 Really going to miss the show Evil.

Aug 19, 2024: Notes, 2024-08-19 It’s been quite some time since I’ve done anything with any of my various blogs. I got super busy with work and, since a lot of that …

Jul 19, 2024: It’s amazing what a few hours off on a Friday afternoon can do for one’s spirits.

Jul 5, 2024: Finished reading: Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright 📚

Jun 29, 2024: Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚

Jun 21, 2024: That feeling when the deadlines were off in the distance but now they’re right here. And they’ve multiplied!

Jun 21, 2024: Amazing clip from yesterday’s Fox MLB broadcast at Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Reggie Jackson given an uninterrupted chance to describe his …

Jun 20, 2024: RIP Willie Mays, who "was baseball" ⚾️ Of the many Willie Mays tributes I read through today I, unsurprisingly, thought Ray Ratto’s at Defector was the best. Willie Mays, who died Tuesday …

Jun 9, 2024: Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚

Jun 8, 2024: Johnson City's Blue Plum Festival Had a great time celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Blue Plum festival last night. Great food and music, lots of fun stuff for the kids, cool …

Jun 6, 2024: China Miéville wrote a book with Keanu Reeves Excited about this collaboration between Keanu Reeves and–of all people–China Miéville as covered in Wired. The books sounds great (though …

Jun 2, 2024: Finished reading: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar 📚

May 27, 2024: Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad 📚 Loved this book. Not at all surprised to learn that it’s been optioned for a film by Bad Robot. Super …

May 22, 2024: 📺 Finished the second season of From on MGM+ yesterday (until a couple weeks ago, when we signed up for a free trial to specifically watch this show, …

May 15, 2024: # 🎵 An hour-long Oasis playlist After getting hooked on @adam ’s St. Vincent playlist and the rest of their “Finest Hour” series in which they “compile [their] favorite of an …

May 5, 2024: Winging it This is now my fifth post of WeblogPoMo across three different sites. Maybe I’ll try for four by the end–I’ve heard great things …

May 4, 2024: Star Wars Day Top 10 #WeblogPoMo2024 As a kid whose most formative years fell in the early 90s, I missed some of the Star Wars craze, and might have missed it altogether if not for my …

May 3, 2024: Lifelong Learning I realized recently (or, maybe just remembered) that learning is one of my favorite things in the world. This week, it came up in a work context …

May 2, 2024: Reminiscence Therapy and 'Remembering Some Guys' Read this article at Defector the other day and came away completely blown away by the whole idea of “reminiscence therapy.” There’s …

May 1, 2024: An ode to a picnic table One of the best purchases we’ve made since purchasing our house a few years ago is a cheap build-it-yourself picnic table kit from one of the big box …

Apr 29, 2024: 🤯 Saw one of these guys crawling around on the dining room table this morning. Had no idea such a creature existed. What a world.

Apr 22, 2024: 🔗 Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane A shocking look at the inner workings at Boeing from Maureen Tkacic at The American Prospect. Nine days after the stock reached its high of $440, a …

Apr 21, 2024: Alone Time As a kid, we lived out of town and there weren’t really other kids my age in safe walking distance. I had a little sister and we definitely …

Apr 14, 2024: Finished reading: _A Creature Wanting Form_ by Luke O'Neil 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bookshop Pretty creepy honestly how faithfully these stories reflect some of my own anxieties, particularly around the 2020 pandemic and …

Apr 14, 2024: Finished reading: Something in the Water by Luke O’Neil 📚

Apr 13, 2024: Finished reading: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 📚

Mar 17, 2024: Really enjoyed Wonka with the kids. 🍿📽️🎥

Mar 16, 2024: Good year for our cherry blossoms

Mar 13, 2024: Thanks, sign!

Mar 11, 2024: Finally watched Oppenheimer. Lived up to the hype! 🎥🍿🎬

Mar 5, 2024: Finished the Hulu series Death and Other Details tonight. Can’t say I thought it was good, but it was certainly a wild ride. Plus, Mandy …

Mar 1, 2024: Now Playing: Liam Gallagher & John Squire 🎵

Feb 29, 2024: The real action is in novelty 📚 💬 I can’t believe all these animals we have are real and we just take it for granted I said before drinking half of my glass. Growing up our …

Feb 24, 2024: Finished Reading [The Overstory](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-overstory-richard-powers/17315941) by Richard Powers 📚 Loved the scope of this and its overall kind of aura. But, man, the back third really dragged ass. Satisfying conclusion and it’s the kind of …

Feb 20, 2024: On feeling the divine in a work of art Luke O’Neil has a way of putting his finger right on that thing about music or literature or whatever that’s so hard to pin down for so …

Feb 3, 2024: Wonderland Tea Party with the little princess. She was slightly intimidated by Alice and the Mad Hatter who were there to take photos; she was not …

Feb 3, 2024: Finished reading: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler 📚 And maybe something in every single person is broken, and we just keep moving forward as if …

Feb 1, 2024: I’ve been on a music nostalgia kick lately. A few weeks ago, we were out with the kids and, for some reason, the phrase “American …

Jan 5, 2024: Year in books, 2023 📚 Here are the books I finished reading this year. This was a very good book year for me. Probably the best in a decade or so in terms …

Jan 5, 2024: Quotes of the Year, Sports Edition From Defector’s Ray Ratto’s December 4th article “The 49ers Are Big Dom Now”: But in whomping the Eagles and briefly …

Dec 16, 2023: Finished reading: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman 📚

Oct 26, 2023: Instead of (or in addition to) the referee expert to consult with for explanations during NFL games broadcasts, I’d like to see someone try a …

Oct 19, 2023: Finished reading: Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff 📚

Sep 11, 2023: Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 📚 One of those books that I just want to climb inside of and live in (despite how unpleasant …

Sep 9, 2023: Popular plant.

Aug 31, 2023: Finished reading: Blockade Billy by Stephen King 📚

Aug 28, 2023: Finished reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Aug 19, 2023: Finished reading: Heat 2 by Michael Mann 📚

Aug 13, 2023: Finished reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚 Huge thanks to @zioibi for choosing this for the sipped ink summer reading club. I’d …

Jul 20, 2023: This video about iridescent hot water that kottke shared today is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long while. 🤯

Jul 17, 2023: The 5 Best Weezer Songs Ever Today, in his Welcome to Hell World newsletter, Luke O’Neil posted an impressive roundup of “musicians and music writers and other …

Jul 2, 2023: Finished reading: Mooncalves: Strange Stories by John WM Thompson (editor) 📚

Jul 2, 2023: Finished reading: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 📚. Truly loved this book.

Jul 1, 2023: Whole family’s been sick this week, so, instead of going out and making new memories I’m going to relive our camping trip from a few weeks …

Jun 30, 2023: 🎵 I’m beginning to think that the theme song for H2O: Just Add Water has taken up permanent residence in my head. This is my life now.

Jun 30, 2023: 📺 Silo finale definitely did not disappoint. Going to be a long wait for season 2.

Jun 18, 2023: Lovely tent overnight at the Rocky Bluff Recreational Area and Spring Creek Nature Trail in the Pisgah National Forest.

Jun 16, 2023: Follow up to my earlier previous post, with a quote from Hamilton Nolan that I read for the first time literally minutes after posting the previous …

Jun 16, 2023: This fuckin' guy ⚾️ Yesterday, Commissioner Rob Manfred held a press conference following the MLB’s owners meetings. This has, of course, been covered pretty …

Jun 15, 2023: Captains or shipworms? From Hamilton Nolan: But when you think about it a little it becomes clear that the people who fancy themselves as the captains of the ship are …

Jun 15, 2023: This fuckin' guy... Yesterday, Commissioner Rob Manfred held a press conference following the MLB’s owners meetings. This has, of course, been covered pretty …

May 31, 2023: 📚 Loved “The Stars Have Eaten the Costco Parking Lot” by Chelsea Sutton in the Mooncalves collection.

May 20, 2023: Finished reading: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson 📚 This one felt like it took me about ten years to finish. Pretty good climax and some …

May 6, 2023: I have always loved the color combination of a clear sky and sunlit spring leaves.

Mar 31, 2023: 🔗 Turns out, plants make a lot of noise when they're stressed Justine Calma, for The Verge, summarizing research from Tel Aviv University: Tomato and tobacco plants in particular make clicking sounds when …

Mar 28, 2023: 🔗 The Lost Art of Being Stuck With An Album Felix Kent, writing at Defector1: For either my 12th birthday or the Christmas before my aunt gave me a copy of R.E.M’s Green, which has an …

Mar 19, 2023: Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 Really enjoyed this. Could see a TV series or a series of short stories or more …

Mar 18, 2023: The Garden-Spade Technique 🔗 I’m a little ashamed to admit how hard I laughed reading this admittedly silly piece by the always great Albert Burneko at the always great …

Mar 7, 2023: Finished reading: Lark Ascending by Silas House 📚

Feb 21, 2023: ⚾️ I cannot stop laughing at this. Protect this man! He’s a national treasure. Spring Training Speech Turns Terry Francona Into Mr. Bean - Defector

Feb 2, 2023: 📺 Through 2 episodes, I absolutely adore Shrinking.

Jan 29, 2023: Finished reading: This Census-taker by China Miéville 📚 Read this for Defector Reads A Book’s February discussion. First book of fiction that I’ve …

Jan 28, 2023: The Resort | 9/10 | Peacock Truly enjoyed this. Hit a very specific soft spot for me reminiscent of some other things I’ve loved even if they weren’t …

Jan 25, 2023: “A dillion is ten thousand and twenty-two.” –My five year old’s new favorite number.

Dec 22, 2022: My Favorite TV Shows of 2022 Andor, Disney+ Severance, Apple TV+ Station Eleven, HBO Max Only Murders in the Building, Hulu House of the Dragon, HBO Max The Bear, Hulu Barry, HBO …

Dec 19, 2022: I know this is like, a well recognized thing, but I’ve been mainlining the Mission: Impossible movies over the last week or so and nobody sells a dead …

Dec 14, 2022: Just giggled to myself about some particularly whimsical bit of animation in the new Readwise Reader, which is now open as a public beta. Have grown …

Dec 14, 2022: Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows The Leftovers Halt and Catch Fire Battlestar Galactica Bob’s Burgers Magnum, P.I. (80s version) …via Jarrod Blundy

Oct 30, 2022: Indeed.

Sep 5, 2022: Finished reading: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

Aug 25, 2022: Love this! John Margolies’s photographs of roadside America via Public Domain Review

Jan 10, 2022: Finished reading: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari 📚

Jun 29, 2021: Finished reading: The Gunslinger (Revised Edition): The Dark Tower I by Stephen King 📚

Jun 24, 2021: Finished reading: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 📚 Turned onto this by a Vox article the other day and it did not …

Jun 20, 2021: Finished reading: Dead Astronauts: A Novel (Borne) by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

Jun 10, 2021: Finished reading: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚 Felt like a little bit of a slog through some of the (long) middle section, but the end was …

Apr 21, 2021: Coming into the season, expectations were about as low as I can remember (and that’s really saying something with this team). Maybe because of …

Mar 13, 2021: 🍿Watched Raya and the Last Dragon last night as a treat for the boy. Fun! Balked initially at the price of premiere plus access, but happy for the …

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Oct 10, 2020: The saddest pumpkin patch.

Oct 8, 2020: Behold: Punkin Marie (right) and Punkin Marie 2.

Jul 10, 2020: 💡: Letterheads: social media and the end of discourse by Sarah Jeong

Feb 8, 2020: Day 8: contrast.

Aug 28, 2019: “I shit in a bag,” he reveals, with a hint of pride. “Because I had to go! And there was nowhere to go. And I’m convinced the gods of rock said, ‘That …

Aug 27, 2019: The things we do for Rock 'n Roll... “I shit in a bag,” he reveals, with a hint of pride. “Because I had to go! And there was nowhere to go. And I’m convinced the gods of rock said, ‘That …

Aug 21, 2019: This is absolutely wild 🦀🦀🦀 Rachel Hartigan Shea at National Geographic: “Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate”

Aug 19, 2019: Really loved this article. Molly Priddy for Vice: “How Getting Sober Finally Made Me Cool”

Aug 15, 2019: For the @macgenie photo challenge (I’m starting late). Day 1: patience is hard when it comes to blueberries.

Aug 2, 2019: Yahoo News, Jana Winter: Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat

Aug 2, 2019: Futurism, Dan Robitzski: The Pentagon Is Launching Mass Surveillance Balloons Over America 😳

Jun 25, 2019: 📚: The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik

May 6, 2019: “Blaming Workers Again” by John Russo and Sherry Linkon — Working Class Perspectives 💡 Super interesting read that articulated a few points that have been on my mind recently. The notion that smaller rust belt communities like the …

May 5, 2019: Blaming Workers Again" by John Russo and Sherry Linkon (Working Class Perspectives 💡 Super interesting read that articulated a few points that have been on my mind recently. The notion that smaller rust belt communities like the …

May 5, 2019: 💿: Mettavolution by Rodrigo y Gabriela

Apr 17, 2019: 🎧: “Just Like Overnight” by Todd Snider

Apr 15, 2019: Appalachia Can’t Breathe - Progressive.org Sick. . . . radiologists in Kentucky are no longer allowed to diagnose black lung for the purposes of a benefit claim, meaning that physicians . . . …

Apr 14, 2019: Appalachia Can't Breathe" -- Progressive.or Sick. . . . radiologists in Kentucky are no longer allowed to diagnose black lung for the purposes of a benefit claim, meaning that physicians . . . …

Mar 22, 2019: 🏀 : I haven’t watched the tournament (or really any basketball) in years, but I am absolutely loving it so far this year. Didn’t know what I was …

Mar 8, 2019: Yeeeeeeep.

Mar 5, 2019:

Feb 20, 2019: Weird baseball quotes, pt. 1 Baseball players (pitchers especially) are weird. Strangest quote of Spring Training (so far) easily goes to Cleveland Indians' pitcher Mike …

Feb 17, 2019: ⚾️ Getting kinda dusty in here… Did you hear this one about new Rays pitcher Charlie Morton …

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Jan 22, 2019: 📚: Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own …

Jan 21, 2019: You and your friends are conspirators in a shadow country If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when your …

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Sep 29, 2018: This guy.

Sep 21, 2018: 🔗 Highline: "Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong" Really enlightening article at Highline. And, in a cruel twist, one effect of weight bias is that it actually makes you eat more. The stress hormone …

Sep 13, 2018: 🎧: “My Sweet Midwest” by Fruit Bats

Sep 12, 2018: 💡: Jason Kottke: In Praise of Public Libraries

Aug 30, 2018: 💿: Royal Blood by Royal Blood

Aug 18, 2018: Saturday vibes.

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Jul 2, 2018: 💡: Community colleges arise as the new tech incubators thanks to nuts tuition costs by Wes Schlagenhauf at The Hustle. Wave of the future, Dude.

Jun 26, 2018: 💡: The Real Reason You Use Closed Captions for Everything Now by Jason Kehe

Jun 8, 2018: 💡: Anthony Bourdain Was the Most Interesting Man in the World by Drew Magary

May 29, 2018: 📚: Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

May 25, 2018: 🎙: Caliphate Certainly not for the faint of heart, but… wow.

May 25, 2018: 📚: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Sparked by the Westworld tie-in. Curious to see how it ties together.

May 24, 2018: 💡: What’s Going On In Your Child’s Brain When You Read Them A Story? by Anya Kamenetz

May 24, 2018: Throwback 💿: Rock and Roll Part Three by Ozma

May 18, 2018: New Study Shows That Students Are Helped by Making College Better, Not Cheaper Helping students succeed also involves a different intuition, however, …

May 18, 2018: Now 🎧: “Tupelo” by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.

May 17, 2018: Defining Student Success New Study Shows That Students Are Helped by Making College Better, Not Cheaper Helping students succeed also involves a different intuition, however, …

May 14, 2018: Now 📖: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Apr 3, 2018: ☺️

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Mar 27, 2018: Whoa Aeon: The weird wonders of combining 3D printing with the maths of pinecones and sunflowers: Using rotating, 3D-printed sculptures that he displays …

Mar 20, 2018: Now 🎧: Where There’s Smoke: “Go Let It Out (Expression)

Feb 20, 2018: Vlad Savov at The Verge perfectly summed up something I’ve been feeling for a long time, but have struggled to put into words. Whatever it is, I’ve …

Feb 20, 2018: Took the words right out of my mouth Vlad Savov at The Verge perfectly summed up something I’ve been feeling for a long time, but have struggled to put into words. Whatever it is, I’ve …

Feb 19, 2018: 🔗 Took the words right outta my mouth Vlad Savov at The Verge perfectly summed up something I’ve been feeling for a long time, but have struggled to put into words. Whatever it is, I’ve …

Feb 19, 2018: 📚 recommendation: The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. So weird and so good. Looking forward to seeing the film version of Annihilation.

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Oct 29, 2017: Fall, finally.

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Oct 4, 2017: Dude. (Photo cred: @bmseybert)

Sep 29, 2017: From The New York Times Magazine… WARNING: sensitive material. For the TL;DR crowd, there’s a podcast version.

Sep 29, 2017: How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down From The New York Times Magazine… WARNING: sensitive material. For the TL;DR crowd, there’s a podcast version.

Aug 31, 2017: “Blue Steel”

Aug 11, 2017: Happy camper.

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Jun 16, 2017: Carrie Coon and Midwestern Soul I knew there was something in particular that stood out about Carrie Coon, and this Joanna Robinson story in Vanity Fair finally helped me pin it …

Jun 16, 2017: Excited about season 2. Revisionist History: A Good Walk Spoiled overcast.fm/+Gsa1tjt9… #nowplaying

Apr 3, 2017:

Feb 16, 2017: Future Seybert is already accumulating some sweet stuff. Thanks @kaylajsims!

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Oct 30, 2016: bmseybert carves a mean jack-o-lantern.

Sep 30, 2016:

Sep 24, 2016: THE STRUTS

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Sep 9, 2016: Happy Friday.

Aug 17, 2016: I stood beneath an orange sky

Aug 4, 2016: Pineapple fajita 😁

May 14, 2016: Love this pup.