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Cover image for My Life in a Bush of Ghosts, the 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, showing stylized humanoid figures scattered over a light backgound; the title and artists' names appear in all-caps along the top of the cover in red letters

What I finished reading in October.

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Cover image for the Stereolab album Margerine Eclipse, showing an orange field with a series of white concentric circles and ovals with several teardrop shapes, and the name of the band and album title, and several song titles and lyric fragments in smaller lettering

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Cover image for the improvised not-not-jazz album Made Out Of Sound, showing Chris Corsano on drums and Bill Orcutt on electric guitar

Last, next.

97: Autumn Trilogy (Scarlet Oak)
98: Harvest (Orleans Reinette Apples)

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new

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Cover image for Bach's Cello Suites by Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma, performed in the Stradivarius violoncello 'Servais' from the Smithsonian collection; issued by the Vivarte (Sony Classical) label; the cover shows a painting of a Rennaissance-era player tuning a cello

To mark the day her eyes closed and mine stayed open: Polly

My author copies of This Folded Path have arrived from Ottawa!

Now I’m just working out how to take money from those of you who wish to buy a copy directly from me. Paypal will probably be involved. Stay tuned.

An opened cardboard box with many chapbooks within, stacked neatly in two piles

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Cover image for the album Cool With That by Jazz improv quartet East Axis, showing a red sphere balanced on top of a purple cone in a bare grey space

I know it’s spelled W-e-d-n-e-s, but it’s pronounced Weltschmerz.