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Tonight, I saw the Kevin Yosua Trio, with guest Jacob Chung at our local jazz venue, Jazzin Lab. It was a great show.  Everyone played their asses off! As a would-be saxophonist, I paid close attention  to Jacob Chung’s playing, and man does the guy have chops. (I mean, I knew that from listening to his albums, but in person he’s just as much of a monster, albeit a sometimes soft-spoken one.) He has the kind of tone a lot of horn players would die for, and was a deeply inventive player.  The bandleader, Kevin Yosua, was the bassist. He …

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Readings, May/June 2026

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Readings 2026

May and June of 2026 were pretty good for reading! I we finished up some of those translations projects I mentioned last month, and though more have come in, with a lot more free time available I was able to finally do some serious reading! I remain stalled out on reading Sir Thomas Malory’s Complete Works (edited by Eugรจne Vinaver), which is funny since the RPG I was reading it for inspiration for has played out and ended. Even so, I’m trying to get back into it, one chunk at a time. In the meantime, below the cut I’ve only …

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Readings, March/April 2026

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Readings 2026

March and April of 2026 were a little rough for reading. The ol’ work schedule is basically flat-out insane, and a lot of my spare time goes into translation work, so the fact that our son’s back in school again has helped less than I thought it might. (We lost a teacher at work and, well, nobody’s hiring anyone these days, so I’m teaching a lot more hours than I’m actually supposed to be.) Whew. Anyway… I’m still off-and-on reading some of the same things I mentioned last time, like: Sir Thomas Malory’s Complete Works edited by Eugรจne Vinaver. Max …

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Readings, January/February 2026

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Readings 2026

January and February of 2026 were not so great for reading. While I didn’t have to teach after mid-January, I spent a lot of my energy in that month working on music for an upcoming computer game that my friend Jeremy’s working on, and February, well… besides working on a translation due in the middle of the month, my son was on school holidays for most of February, so… yeah. I didn’t get to read as much as I would have liked. Still, I did get through four books, which is not nothing, especially when one of them was like …

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Best Reading of 2025

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Books Read 2025

I’m running a bit behind on this, mostly because I’m teaching a winter course at work and those are always pretty time-intensive, but I thought I’d briefly discuss my favorite reads from last year, out of everything I read this year (pictured above, and see also here). I’m including fiction, poetry, and graphic novels (in that order). No nonfiction, but basically just because none really made the cut. No RPG booksโ€”most of those were reviewed in the same post, so there’s no reason to go over it all over again.   In no particular order, here were my favorite reads from …

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