Right Now (April 2026)

Reading: 

• • Material World by Ed Conway (2023)
  • Apple in China by Patrick McGee (2025)
  • Suspicion by Seichō Matsumoto (1982)
    • ...the UK edition specifically, because it has an unbeatable cover by Kiso Yoshida, whose Wikipedia entry features the phrase: "She had a quiet noble bearing[...]" which strikes me as novelistic and inappropriate for a Wikipedia entry, but in a nice way.

Listening:

• Red Lady by Phil Cordell (1969), repeatedly. 

Making:

• A boombox from a Toyota head unit and speakers, in imitation of the Lexus one in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999).
  • 2 March 2026: Head-unit acquired...
  • 5 March 2026: Variable power supply borrowed...
  • 28 April 2026: Speaker wire prepped...
• Cardboard inboxes exactly the size of the NY Review of Books (273mm x 371mm) and Times Literary Supplement (264mm x 338mm).
  •  Done with the NYRB one.