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Notes and Thoughts on Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work

12.26.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Blackout poem: "I write what I want to read."
Newspaper blackout poem from Austin Kleon’s website: https://austinkleon.com/2014/06/11/mission-statement/

I’m afraid that all I really needed from this book was the title: Show Your Work.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Oh, Ick, Prattle Tags // austin kleon, brian eno, david byrne, ian svenonius, john scalzi, metrics, notes and thoughts, outdoor elvis, paul bloom, piper cj, pragmatism, rick beato, robin sloan, seth godin, show your work, sidney lumet, sting, the night and its moon, the swirling eddies, tim ferriss

I’m back!

12.22.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

"Grand Re-opening sign"

What’s the point of a blog if I never post?

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Categories // Oh, Ick, Prattle Tags // austin kleon, elon musk, music, social media, tiktok, twitter, youtube

RIP, Dan

03.06.2022 by Greg Kemble // 3 Comments

Portraits of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

I’ve lost a colleague and, more importantly, a friend.

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Color of the pen (a song!)

12.03.2021 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Abstract blue ink

I plan to write about the process of recording Color of the Pen, much as I did in an earlier post about my previous song, Josie, but I’m drowning near the end of a semester. Someone asked for the lyrics, though, so I figured that shouldn’t take as long as a full post.

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Categories // Music, Prattle Tags // lyrics, music, recording

What I missed on my low-iodine diet

10.11.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Spoon drizzling chocolate onto ice cream in tapatio mug

My stint with a low-iodine diet, in preparation for the radiated iodine therapy, was fine, though I really missed two things: ice cream and hot sauce. (Not at the same time….)

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Categories // Prattle Tags // cancer, hot ones, hot sauce, ice cream, low-iodine diet, thyroid

Hydration and isolation

09.29.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Glow in the dark watch

It’s official: I am dangerously radioactive.

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Entering phase two: radioactive!

09.15.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Rusted old radioactivity sign

In “Good Luck and Cancer,” I wrote that my stint with cancer had lasted only three months from discovery to recovery. It turns out that this was a bit optimistic — though, I hope, not by much.

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Sixty

09.14.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Manufactured in 1961 sign

Generally, I haven’t been too fazed by birthdays ending with a zero. 30, 40, even 50 didn’t feel that different from other years. But there’s something equal parts weird and mundane about turning 60.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // alice in wonderland, birthday, books, distraction, identities, music, pandemic, youtube

Columbo and multi-generational nostalgia

07.07.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Peter Falk as Columbo

A couple weeks ago, a couple weeks before his sixteenth birthday, the Younger told me that he’s recently been on a “nostalgia kick.”

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Thoughts on prayers

06.29.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Praying Hands in neon

Sometimes I just don’t know what to say.

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