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March is a little late to be summarizing the previous year’s reading. But I was busy in January and forgot in February, so here we are. I like looking back at my book-year regardless of when I get around to it. So if you have any interest in my reading life, here we go. My 2020 in books.
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I listen to so much death metal, especially of the melodic and doomy varieties, but also the technical and the old school. And maybe it makes me a bad metalhead, but sometimes I’m just not interested in phylogeny.
{Cue yet another nonexistent gif: John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank ordering an empty omelette: I don’t want a semantic argument, I just want the protein!}
I just want to share cool death metal that I’ve found. So here it is.
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This giant block of ice was placed in Occidental Park as part of a public art project several years ago. You might question whether a block of ice counts as art. But it was midsummer, so every time you walked by it looked a little different. It was so unusual to see a giant block of ice that everyone stopped to look and wondered if they could touch it. Complete strangers struck up conversations about it trying to decide if they liked it or hated it. Even the dogs were intrigued, and had kind of the same response. Is it something to lick or something to pee on?
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If you’re new to K-drama and having a hard time predicting who the heroine will end up with, there’s a trick to identifying the winner. Her true love will be announced well in advance through a series of flashbacks revealing that the hero and the heroine knew each other as children, but have been separated for decades. Western viewers thrill to the idea of finding the needle of true love in the global haystack. But K-drama viewers know true love is based on a secret childhood connection.
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January of 2021 was my biggest months ever as a freelancer. A nonprofit that I work with was rebranding, and I helped write, edit, or write and edit the copy for every page of their new website. It was a huge project that took up what seemed like all of my time. So I was shocked at the end of the month to discover that I also published about as many articles as I usually do in a typical month. Pow.
