Some things, in no particular order:
Making bread, since I still don’t do it very often, is an adventure and a treat. Fresh-baked bread with experimental red pepper dip: totally awesome. (It is exactly what I thought it was, and I would like to obtain a mortar and pestle for the next time. Also I will plan the roasted red peppers a little tiny bit better.)
I got Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. I can’t wait to start reading it. If there’s unexpected radio silence here, that’s probably why. (The cover, by the way, is kind of twee, adorable, and stood out quite well on the shelf. Of course, it was a face-out. The spine is nothing special.) (I am so irritated that the author teaches at the University of Chicago, and not somewhere local to me.)
I am thinking about POD in an entirely different context this week than I was last week. I still don’t know any of the useful technical details. I’m on the case, though.
Respect the Spindle, which is Abby Franquemont’s book, came out almost two months ago. I just noticed and read it on, erm, I think Saturday. It’s very good. It makes not carrying a spindle around everywhere seem quite silly.
It’s very close to the deadline for registering to do the open studio thing I did last year. I’m dithering. It’s probably silly not doing it, though.
It kind of horrifies me that Jerry Pinkney hadn’t won a Caldecott yet. I just, I dunno, assumed that he had. Ah, well, now he has.
I have been overcome by the urge to listen to opera and jazz again. What I need, I think, is a mashup of Philip Glass (Akhnaten) and Miles Davis (Bitches Brew).
… which is my cue to step the heck away from the internet.
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