Comics Conveyed Public Health Storytelling During Pandemic, via Medscape.

Erasmus’s teachings are still pertinent today, via The Economist.

Marvel To Collect Everything They Published In August 1961 As Omnibus, via Bleeding Cool.

And, the best thing of the week: ‘The Mandalorian’ Director Robert Rodriguez And Baby Yoda Come Together For Holiday Jam Session, via Deadline.

Time to get myself a Switch so I can train for my next Mario Kart duel with my niece. This is war.

My mother-in-law is awesome, Christmas edition.

Christmas viewing.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Holly/Jolly/Pandemic/EtCetera.

Merry/Happy.

As I hacked away at a blameless cauliflower, I realized how much I’ve come to hate cooking and “hate that I hate cooking” over the last several months. This Helen Rosner essay arrived at the right time.

Obligatory snowfall-in-progress shot.

Christmas essentials. Also: The Madagascar Penguins Christmas Caper (not pictured, clearly).

Still the only Christmas album I enjoy.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 24dec2020.

Christmas has arrived early with the pre-dawn delivery of a new trash bin which pretty much defines the whole of this fucking year.

Groomed and unimpressed Morkie.

Felony Streaming and CASE Act: What You Need to Know, via Copyright Lately.

Bill attacking health department’s COVID-19 power dies, via Ohio Capital Journal.

Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond are finally coming to HBO Max in January, via The Verge.

25 Things I’ve Learned From a Decade of Podcasts, via Ryan Holiday.

Daft Punk releases ‘complete edition’ of their stunning Tron: Legacy score, via The Verge.

In other news, I’ve managed to unstick the front door just in time for its next weather-change-infused warping.

New glasses / I can see again.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Revisited: THE GODFATHER Trilogy (1/2).

EarBliss, 22dec2020: SOMEWHERE DECENT TO LIVE, by Space Afrika.

Spent most of the afternoon playing STREETS OF RAGE 4 and I stand by this decision.

Thinking of moving away from digital subscriptions - Economist, etc. - via app on my fading iPad and towards Kindle for reading. Anyone done this? Thoughts?

Reading:

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes on Efforts to Reclaim These Culinary Loves.

Peter Jackson Unveils Intimate First Footage From His Beatles Documentary. via Deadline.

Long-Lost Morricone Score To Get First Commercial Release, via The Quietus.

A covid-19 themed shop in New York is thriving, via The Economist.

The System Is Not Working: The Lopsided Election Result, Not The Courts, Saved Our Democracy, via Just Security.

“If it Hadn’t Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics”: FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny, via Bellingcat.