A podcast about books, art & life — not necessarily in that order
My Google Calendar just reminded me that today marks the 8th anniversary of Virtual Memories! For you long-time readers, many thanks for sticking around all these years!
Now congratulate me for perseverance in the face of irrelevance and/or obsolescence! Or buy me something!
(Oh, and check out my new book-oriented Tumblr blog, Montaigne’s Library, somedarntime!)
I’m the guy who just became an uncle all over again.
Mazel tov, my family!
When I mentioned in the previous post that I celebrated turning 40 by buying myself a watch for “a bunch more than I ever thought I would spend,” please note that I was not talking about anything remotely like these.
Only $750,000? I’m there!
I’m the guy who used to think about quitting his job at 40 and taking a year off to focus on writing.
Now that I’ve turned 40, I’m just gonna take the day off and go to NYC to spend some time with the various Rembrandts at the Met.
In 9 months, Roland the Great Dane puppy went from this
to this
Rufus, who stands about 30″ high at the hip, is in the foreground of this pic. I can’t conceive of how much food a dog has to consume to fuel that much bone and muscle growth in less than a year. And he’s still got some growing to do, his mom tells us.
I’m the guy who listened to podcast interviews with Trent Dilfer and Alain de Botton on his morning commute.
Happy New Year’s Eve, dear readers! Welcome to the final installment of Unrequired Reading! That’s right! Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! This feature is O-V-E-R!
For a while now, I felt like I’ve been battling against the tide of instant/mini-blogging by posting a weekly collection of links I enjoyed and wanted to share. The thing is, most of the items I put on Unrequired Reading are recycled from my twitter feed or my facebook page, so it hasn’t made much sense to collect them here, except to allow me to say, “I posted something!”
So, it’s the end of the Unrequired Reading era. I’m planning to use this blog for longer writing, travelogues and the like. If you’re interested in keeping up with those links I posted to Unrequired Reading, then follow my twitter feed: twitter.com/groth18.
Twitter also auto-tweets links to my new blog posts, but adding my RSS feed to your reader will clue you in to any long-form posts I write, as well as my What It Is posts (the necessity of which I’m also reassessing). I really hope to do some longer writing next year, but I make no promises. I’m much more intent on getting a regular podcast series off the ground.
(I know, I know: podcasts are even more passe than short-form link-blogging, but I’ve wanted want to work in that form for a while now, and I think I have a recurring segment that’ll make it something more engaging than The Gil Roth Show.)
If you want to keep up with my pictures, check out my flickr posts here or subscribe via RSS.
In other news, I turn 40 in less than 2 weeks, so if you want to buy me something nice, you can check out my wish list on Amazon.
And now, on with the show! Have a happy new year, dear readers!
Continue reading “Unrequired Reading: December 31, 2010”
One of my neighbors just sent me a pic of our snowbound home. She got her snow removal guys to make a sweep of our driveway, and another neighbor came in with his snowblower to help out later. I’m so thankful to have neighbors (okay, friends) who’ll help out like this.
(Looks like less than the 22″ reported in town, thankfully.)
No Unrequired Reading for you this week, dear readers! I’m on vacation! I’ll have an extra-special edition for you next week, to close out 2010!
Okay, okay. Just to give you something, here’s the 3-D Yule Log.
I’m the guy who buys the eggs.