{"id":41899,"date":"2024-03-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41899"},"modified":"2024-03-07T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T21:08:34","slug":"whats-in-my-now-michael-a-denner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-michael-a-denner\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Michael A. Denner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsinmynow.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sign up here<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to get\u00a0What\u2019s in my NOW?\u00a0a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a professor of Russian literature at Stetson University. I am the editor of Tolstoy Studies Journal. I&#8217;ve written a cookbook on Georgian (Black Sea!) cooking. I am a fairly competitive powerlifter. I was attacked by a rabid raccoon recently. I&#8217;ve lived in places and done things that most people can&#8217;t imagine. I restore used cowboy boots. \u2014&nbsp;<em><strong>Michael A. Denner<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcada8e0f-d923-45b5-842a-a3519adeea1e_1291x968.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcada8e0f-d923-45b5-842a-a3519adeea1e_1291x968.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"236\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Restored boots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F170142e2-4bd2-4aff-a2f5-2f0d6275a17d_1280x720.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F170142e2-4bd2-4aff-a2f5-2f0d6275a17d_1280x720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>My knife\/awl\/scraper, prybar, handmade from a&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/Avp4f\">lawnmower blade<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;cut in half and wrapped with leather bootlace, and absolutely necessary for restoring old boots.<\/li><li>Good tape. Never skimp on tape. Use it exorbitantly. One minute on job prep means saving 10 minutes on cleanup. Like everyone else, I use&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/vAJZ\">FROGTAPE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li><li>A&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/AbvB9\">baker&#8217;s bench knife.<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;It should always be on the counter when you&#8217;re cooking. I use it for everything.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>DIGITAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Take a few minutes and&nbsp;<strong>turn off everything that makes noise<\/strong>, vibrates, flashes lights, whistles, blows bubbles on your phone. Then, throw your phone away.<\/li><li>I have become somewhat addicted to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly\">Soft White Underbelly<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;on YouTube. &#8220;Soft White Underbelly interviews and portraits of the human condition by photographer, Mark Laita.&#8221; If you want to understand the human condition, watch it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>INVISIBLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Annie Dillard)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s in your NOW?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to know what\u2019s in your&nbsp;now&nbsp;\u2014 a list of&nbsp;6 things that are significant to you now&nbsp;\u2014 3 physical, 2 digital and 1 invisible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in contributing an issue, use this form to submit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Pf9BMuombeg1gCid9\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/Pf9BMuombeg1gCid9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we run your submission in our newsletter and blog, we\u2019ll paypal you $25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #170<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553,2389],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41901,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions\/41901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}