I’ve been typically lax about putting the word around, so if anyone hasn’t heard yet about my housewarming: consider yourselves invited. It’s this coming Saturday, starting early because Bos en Lommer is far from the centre and the trams/metro stop running at midnight. Contact me for directions, it’s close to the metro station De Vlugtlaan.
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The IFComp (annual interactive fiction competition) began on October 1st. Tea leaves has a good enthusiastic plug for it, which is what reminded me (only a week behind the times). Go, download, play, enjoy (maybe even vote).
To celebrate my first paycheck, I made a visit to a secondhand CD store, and found myself a treasure. Murderous Home, volume one of two: prison songs recorded in 1947-8 at Parchman Farm, a segregated penitentiary where prisoners were used as a labour force for a self-sufficient farm (including several thousand acres of cotton fields). [...]
I’ve been moving around a lot lately. I left the boerderij in Zaandam for some peace and quiet while I worked on my thesis. I had a couple of months in Amsterdam North in an artist’s studio (said artist was in Portugal), then a week in a garden house on Zeeburgerijland. But I’ve finally come [...]