Daily running route yard signage report for 28oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 05 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Finally read Jason Lutes’s BERLIN and my only regret is that it never crossed my path until now. Brilliant, remarkable comics - everything the medium can be and so much more. Highest recommendation.

Reading, 27oct2020…

Daily running route yard signage report for 27oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 06 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Pod-Equipment and Finger Yoga.

An interview with Alexei Navalny, Assassination Survivor, via The Economist.

The Tours of Dr Syntax (1809–1821), via The Public Domain Review .

Chilling find shows how Henry VIII planned every detail of Boleyn beheading, via The Guardian.

Sadakichi Hartmann’s Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895), via The Public Domain Review.

‘A disgrace to democracy’: Dozens of ballots destroyed in suspected arson of a Boston drop box, via The Washington Post.

Social media’s struggle with self-censorship, via The Economist.

EarBliss, 26oct2020: WHO ARE YOU?, by Joel Ross.

The great comics organization project begins.

Cleaning up leaves in the yard and remembering how much Sadie, our beloved greyhound princess, loved a good leaf pile.

Daily running route yard signage report for 26oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 07 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Huge congratulations to Elizabeth Joan Kelly on the first anniversary of the release of FAREWELL, DOOMED PLANET! - a beautiful and challenging work of true EarBliss.

Daily running route yard signage report for 25oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 08 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Issue 0027 of MacroParentheticals, featuring not only the music video premiere of Elizabeth Joan Kelly and Geiger von Müller’s latest collaboration but also my limitations with Markdown, is on its way to inboxes everywhere. The day’s run awaits.

Daily running route yard signage report for 24oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 09 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Very excited: the music video for the latest Elizabeth Joan Kelly / Geiger von Müller collaboration, “Blue Moon Frequency # 2b (Fall Mix),” premieres tomorrow in the latest issue of my MacroParentheticals newsletter.

Daily running route yard signage report for 23oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 10 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Until this morning, I never realized that the words “Accepted for Counting” could be so therapeutic.

Homemade signs of sanity are springing up.

Status

“I worry when somebody from one particular tradition stands up and says, “The novel is dead, the story is dead.” I find this to be unfair, to put it mildly. You told your own story, and now you’re announcing the novel is dead. Well, I haven’t told mine yet.”

— Chinua Achebe, THERE WAS A COUNTRY, p. 55.

Daily running route yard signage report for 22oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 11 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Reading, 22oct2020:

Household peak Baby Yoda = attained.

Daily running route yard signage report for 21oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 12 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

This week, at Parenthetical Recluse: the podcasting begins, at long last, with The Socialized Recluse, Ep0001 - Uziel Colón.