I suppose there is something appropriate about my finishing Studs Terkel's Working on the last day of the school year when I usually spend my day getting ready to not work for an eight-week stretch. Of course, this could be total coincidence and the bigger factor in my finishing the book is that it's due …
The Art of the Decluttering Video
Screencap of a "Spring Cleaning Videos" playlist I made on YouTube. So back in March, I was pretty psyched about getting some spring cleaning done, so I decided to psych myself by watching some decluttering videos. Good God, that sounds lame. But really, I was bored on my lunch break and clicked an Abundantly Minimal …
The Week in Uncollecting, 6/6/21-6/11/21
Okay, back on this weekly horse. However, there's only one thing that I checked off all week (okay, technically two, but the book is for an upcoming Required Reading podcast, so I won't include it here), which is a movie. Over the course of several nights this week, I watched the five-hour version of Bud …
Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Tired
"Insomnia" by _Jer_ is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 So I have been reading a lot about how there is a brewing fight between management and labor over physically returning to work when remote work has been not only navigable but successful for many. Although I welcome my returning to a full-time in-person classroom (and laud my school district …
Uncollecting Your Brain
"Ping pong project" by mknowles is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 I went to meditate this morning and Insight Timer wouldn't work. I quickly determined that because I have a 6th generation iPod touch, the app won't work because my iPod doesn't have iOS 13 or newer. So after briefly cursing Apple for their bullshit* and then making a …
Uncollecting Update May 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 0 (2/399)Digital Comics Read: 9 (487/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (29/40)Books Read: 2 (118/170)Movies Watched: 8 (115/143)TV Seasons Completed: 0 (99/101)TV Shows Completed: 0 (33/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 127 These are all new totals because I did a recount over Memorial Day weekend so that I could be more accurate in what I have to …
Personal Archaeology 15: The Book of Questions
By the time I was old enough to register who my great Aunt Frances was, she was an "old Italian woman" the way that many of my fellow "Italian-by-way-of-Brooklyn" connazionales would recognize from their own families. Short, bearing and incredible resemblance to both her sister Mimi and my grandfather John, Aunt Frances lived int he …
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Your Personal Energy Crisis
"Book hoarder (28 Jan 13)" by ejbSF is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Maybe it was because I was nine years old that I found Spock telling Kirk "It's always been easier to destroy rather than to create" in Star Trek II deeply profound even though it's an incredibly obvious statement. Then again, maybe I'm just dense because the …
The Week in Uncollecting 5/2/21-5/8/21
I didn't accidentally skip a week; I just let the monthly update be the "tracking entry" for that week. So there you go. And that's a great way to start a blog post, really. Even I'm looking at this and am incredibly intrigued at what is going to come next. Honestly, this week was another …
Uncollecting Update April 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 0 (7/399)Digital Comics Read: 2 (496/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 8 (28/40)Books Read: 3 (118/170)Movies Watched: 2 (104/143)TV Shows Completed: 1 (34/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 145 April, as it was this year, seemed to get away from me very fast. I was thinking about why this morning and I believe that a lot of it has …
