Yesterday, I read the DC Comics adaptation of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. That means I can officially say that I have read every single physical comic that was in my "unread" pile. I knew this day was coming, and it would have come sooner if I hadn't stalled out on reading the digital …
Author: Tom Panarese
Personal Archaeology 16: Cries for Help on a Desk
I copied it down in a notebook and then transcribed it to my journal sometime in the fall of 1993 at the start of my junior year of high school. I tended to sit in the back corner of Mr. Kalman's APUSH class and the classroom had the ancient type of school desks with attached …
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The Week in Uncollecting, 7/4/21-7/10-21
Man, I'm tried. Three weeks have passed since the school year ended and I feel like it hasn't stopped. Plus, my routine is all sorts of screwed up (which usually is only the case during the first week of break, not the third), so I haven't been keeping track of things the way I want …
Okay, now. Reset for real this time.
I got my annual planner in the mail yesterday. Yeah, I'm one of those people who still uses a paper day planner, because while I do put appointments into my phone's calendar app, I still find that when I physically write things down and cross/check them off, I feel a sense of organization (or at …
Uncollecting Update June 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 0 (2/399)Digital Comics Read: 0 (487/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 3 (28/42)Books Read: 4 (120/176)Movies Watched: 1 (114/143)TV Seasons Completed: 3 (96/101)TV Shows Completed: 2 (31/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 162 This is supposed to be the uncollecting, right? June (and early July sometimes) always brings with it a little bit of accumulation each year because my birthday …
Working
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 …
