Daily running route yard signage report for 27aug2020: 110 houses, 13 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 67 days remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Input Updates, 27aug2020.

To-read stack update, 27aug2020.

Just finished Hilary Mantel’s THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT. First thoughts: a spectacular conclusion to one of the great literary sagas of recent memory; an absolute triumph.

Status.

This meeting will come to order. (Order, I say.)

Daily running route yard signage report for 26aug2020: 110 houses, 13 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+2), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 68 days remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes Upon Persistent Electoral Dismay.

The mic has arrived: now that I’ve spent money on it, this podcast is happening. (Apologies in advance.)

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Local Yard Signage / Vortex Update. Also: my Status page has returned.

EarBliss, 24aug2020: THE QUIET CITY, by Library Tapes.

Every so often I consider updating my LinkedIn profile. And then I go to the site and decide I’m more than comfortable in my obscurity.

Daily running route yard signage report for 24aug2020: 110 houses, 11 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 70 days remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Dispatches from The Vortex.

Daily running route yard signage report for 23aug2020: 110 houses, 11 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 71 days remain until the 2020 election.

Issue 0018 of my MacroParentheticals newsletter is off to inboxes and eyes. Note: it’s currently 69°F in my slice of heartlandia, given that I forgot to include it in the NL proper. And thus I end the week with a boneheaded error. Oh well. Thankfully there’s a plethora of cute dog pictures.

Daily running route yard signage report for 22aug2020: 110 houses, 11 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+4), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 72 days remain until the 2020 election.

Saturday.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Happy Weekend: I’m Terrible at Relaxing But.

EarBliss, 22aug2020: PEEL, by KMRU.

Daily running route yard signage report for 21aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 73 days remain until the 2020 election.

EarBliss, 21aug2020: CONNECT, by Charles Tolliver.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of These Fragments of Expression and Guarded Hope.

Working to reawaken my years-dormant and semi-competent ability to write comics scripts has been a fantastic exercise. It’s good to be back - and pushing forward.