Rich Rennicks

Screenshot from iTunes showing an album cover with pink smoke rising from an entrance to the NYC subway. Cover of the Velvet Underground's final album, Loaded (1970). Song titles are listed below.

Taking a trip down memory lane with the Velvet Underground's Loaded this afternoon. Not their best, but unfairly maligned album, IMHO.

Saw that Utah banned Jessie Ann Foley's book THE CARNIVAL AT BRAY yesterday. Here's my review from back when it was published: wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/r...

Warning: contains excessive praise of Nirvana, teenage rebellion, and women thinking for themselves!

Tickets available for the upcoming California Book Fair (Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2026) Pier 27, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA

Get your tickets now: www.abaa.org/event/buy-ti...

#CABookFair2026 #RareBooks #Ephemera

Got nice noise-canceling headphones. Work great with laptop! Hooked them up to old (‘90s) CD Walkman & the volume is crazy high! Apparently need an in-line attenuator to moderate this clash between old and new tech? Can nothing be easy?

SHE IS HERE! No, really, She is Here is *here*! SHE IS HERE is finally here! In honour of its book birthday, I have a new avatar—one of the images from the book. Buy! Borrow! Read and enjoy!

SHE IS HERE! No, really, She is Here is *here*!

Changed my Insta account name for reasons, now have to login again but can't remember old password. Having trouble caring enough to reset it. Maybe I'm just done with Insta?

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

It's Songs of Experience. The weight is there for one warped record. I just don't remember to take it off all the time.

A blue vinyl disc spins on a record player. A chunky yellow needle on the end of the arm. Reflection of the album cover showing two people: a man & a woman standing (Songs of Experience by U2).

New needle for the record player and the albums I got at the end last year are sounding so much better! It’s the little things….

#turntable #vinyl #U2 #smallpleasures

A snowy forest background with the book cover (very pink) superimposed. Some police tape marks a crime scene.

Review: BETH IS DEAD by Katie Bernet

"a page-turner that will keep you up late… very late!"

wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/r...

Alright, folks. Don’t forget to buy lemons tomorrow. We are not animals! #snowpocalypse

Lady Liberty’s hand holds the torch above a frozen wasteland. The Manhattan skyline frozen in the distance. Repent sinners! All is lost! Bwahaha… etc. etc. A pretty great movie poster.

Preparing for the weekend’s #snowpocalypse with the traditional viewing of The Day After Tomorrow!

My forthcoming book, SHE IS HERE, is a collection of different types of creative work—fiction, poetry, non-fiction, visual art. It's a keyhole window into my creative path: perhaps a 21st-century version of a creative Commonplace Book? Let me explain...

Review: The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst The heroine of Sarah Beth Durst’s new edition of The Lost is named Lauren Chase, a young everywoman working an anonymous corporate job in Los Angeles, and whose mother is fighting a losing ba…

Review: THE LOST by Sarah Beth Durst

wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/r...

"part romance, part self-discovery manual, all fantastical and rather wondrous"

#fantasy #romance #bookreview

Incl. a coffee shop that has records spinning on turntables as decor while streaming entirely different music... Should be parodied in a Pixar movie like how SF ruined pizza.

AVL Marathon 2026 registration fee goes up tonight at midnight, so save yourself a few bucks-sign up now!

2026 New Belgium Asheville Marathon & Half
Saturday, March 21, 2026

Learn more: raceroster.com/events/2026/...

I've run it in the past, but will just be helping behind the scenes this year.

Had that on cassette, but haven’t heard her in years. Overdue going down that rabbit hole again.

Good times!

First year of vinyl records A year ago, we had no record player and only the vaguest interest in getting one. Then my better half came back from Target with a special four-disc edition of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Dep…

First year of vinyl records: random musings on becoming a vinyl records guy... wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/f...

This really is an excellent read!

The cover of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET by Lindz McLeod features two white women in regency dresses (one pale blue, one purple) almost kissing. The woman in the pale blue dress is hiding a bouquet of bright flowers behind her back. In the background, there is a large brown counrty house, evidently part of a estate.

Fancy a post-Christmas Regency and sapphic chill reading sesh in your pjs?

Like and repost this skeet (is that really what we call them?) for a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Open worldwide until midnight 23rd Dec, winners drawn on Christmas Eve.

I don’t think we really appreciate how amazing it is to find a 40+YO vinyl record in a bargain bin for a couple bucks, take it home, play it, and it still works! The number of digital storage mediums I’ve used in the same amount of time that are now obsolete and unreadable is staggering.

a cartoon character driving a car with a check engine sign on the dashboard ALT: a cartoon character driving a car with a check engine sign on the dashboard

Here's to all my fellow dads about to spend the weekend in the time-honored holiday pursuit of dealing with the deferred maintenance on their college-aged kids' vehicles...

Review: An Archive of Romance by Ava Reid The presumed end of Ava Reid’s A Study in Drowning series concerns the preparations for Effy and Preston’s wedding. An Archive of Romance is a short novella that picks up a year after the events of…

Review: Ava Reid's An Archive of Romance: wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r...

An enjoyable (if slight) coda to Reid's A Study in Drowning duology. The perfect gift for fans of the series.

#Fantasy #Romantasy #YA

That Personalized Email About Loving and Marketing Your Book Is a Scam - Electric Literature Taking advantage of aspiring authors is a rich tradition, and now published authors are being scammed too

After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.

Love that album!

#Runner problems: When you get off the waitlist for a goal race, but you're currently dealing with an injury... To sign up or not, that is the question.

A friend was explaining the tells of AI writing, and I now strongly suspect the really boring book I discuss in this blog was written with AI.

Perfect morning!

I always assume record store dudes are judging me harshly when I pick up unhip things like this. But, damn, so much Motown greatness!