A banner morning in project completion: the script for A Comic is complete; the story for Another Comic is making enough sense that the next step is figure out the next steps; and the first full episode of The Socialized Recluse pod launches in a few hours.

The first podcast episode is complete. (Exhales.) Launching tomorrow morning.

Operation: Place-Ballot-in-Box-and-Do-My-Part-to-Restore-Reason-and-Sanity is complete.

EarBliss, 20oct2020: MOLECULAR, by James Brandon Lewis Quartet.

Daily running route yard signage report for 20oct2020: 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); with 13 days and 13 hours remaining until the 2020 election, voting is underway in Ohio.

Don DeLillo: ‘I wondered what would happen if power failed everywhere’, via The Guardian.

Domestic Violence in Rural America Increased During Covid-19, via The Daily Yonder.

‘Lovecraft Country’ Spoilers EP Misha Green On Tonight’s Finale, Season 2 & More, via Deadline.

Inside the ‘Malarkey Factory,’ Biden’s online war room, via The Washington Post.

8 Tips To Stay Sane In The Final 15 Days Of The Campaign, via FiveThirtyEight.

Apple Releases watchOS 7.0.3 for Apple Watch Series 3 to Fix Unexpected Restart Issue, via MacRumors - wrist-cyborg returneth, hopefully.

Ronnie the Bonsai (my second Bonsai, after Bonnie the Bonsai’s unfortunate demise) is, in spite of the outdoor blech, settling into her new nightstand home.

I’ve written books and symphonies and movies and comics and none of it prepared me for how hard it was to introduce an album track for a podcast. Profane Elmer Fudd ensued.

Daily running route yard signage report for 19oct2020: 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); with 14 days and 13 hours remaining until the 2020 election, voting is underway in Ohio.

EarBliss, 19oct2020: SHENZOU, by Biosphere.

In which Izzy considers making an unwise move.

Daily running route yard signage report for 18oct2020: 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); with 15 days and 13 hours remaining until the 2020 election, voting is underway in Ohio.

Four years ago today, as I lay dying in the ER from diabetic ketoacidosis, I learned that I had Type One Diabetes and that, should I survive, my life would never be the same. I did, and it hasn’t. I wrote about those memories and more in today’s MacroParentheticals dispatch.

Cleveland Hospitals’ Private Police “Border Patrol” Comes Under Scrutiny, via ProPublica.

Italian police break up counterfeit wine ring, via CNN.

Biden Wants to Transform America (Really), via The Atlantic.

Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now, via The Washington Post.

No vaccine for cruelty, via The Economist.

The industries that won’t recover without a vaccine, via Axios.

Simone Giertz built a selfie photo booth for her dog out of Legos and it’s perfect, via The Verge.

Day eight: ballot received.

Daily running route yard signage report for 17oct2020: 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); with 16 days and 13 hours remaining until the 2020 election, early voting is underway in Ohio.

EarBliss, 16oct2020: LESSENING, by Ralph Kinsella.

Mail-in ballot status, on this, the seventh day of my mailbox vigil: no democracy today.

Daily running route yard signage report for 16oct2020: 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); with 17 days and 13 hours remaining until the 2020 election, early voting is underway in Ohio.

Still in a good mood: so wonderful to see THE WEST WING family back in action, no matter how briefly. What I want now: a return to the series, with Sterling K. Brown as the president.

Mail-in ballot status, on this, the sixth day of my mailbox vigil: no democracy today.

Daily running route yard signage report for 15oct2020: 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); with 18 days and 12 hours remaining until the 2020 election, early voting is underway in Ohio.

Earth’s next mini-moon might be space junk from the 1960s, via The Verge.

New research explores authoritarian mind-set of Trump’s core supporters, via The Washington Post

Japanese jazz pianist recovering from surgery after New York City subway attack, via CNN.

Here’s Doom running on a Samsung fridge thanks to xCloud, via The Verge.

Stevie Nicks on art, ageing and attraction: ‘Botox makes it look like you’re in a satanic cult!’, via The Guardian.

New Covid Cases Jump 16% in Rural Counties, Breaking One-Week Record, via The Daily Yonder.

Why the Pandemic has Affected Britain and Japan So Differently, via The Economist.

Mail-in ballot status, on this, the fifth day of my mailbox vigil: no democracy today.