Saturday.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Ink Breath.

Daily running route yard signage report for 14aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 80 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Insulin has been delivered: I get to live for another year, give or take.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brubaker-Phillips, BAD WEEKEND / RECKLESS.

EarBliss, 14aug2020: PERRY MASON, SEASON ONE: MUSIC FROM THE HBO SERIES, by Terence Blanchard.

Daily running route yard signage report for 13aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 81 days and 09 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… MASK OF THE PHANTASM, Revisited.

Thanks to having spent the last month laying bricks and building our back patio, I’ve finally lived up to the meaning of my first name.

Daily running route yard signage report for 12aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 82 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of VPs, Comics, and Life Ransoms.

EarBliss, 12aug2020: PENELOPE ONE, by Penelope Trappes - thanks to Elizabeth Joan Kelly for recommending Trappes’s work via her new internet radio show, ElectroJunkyard.

Making Wednesdays and Sundays comics scripting days is the smartest move I’ve made in a long time: it’s a joy to be working (again) with a medium I hold so dear. Been far too long.

And also in “news that makes for a good day”: my wife knocked it out of the birthday gift park.

Biden/Harris: YES.

Daily running route yard signage report for 11aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/TBA signs (+/-0); 83 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Backyard, 11aug2020.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bookends Return.

Daily running route yard signage report for 10aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/TBA signs (+/-0); 84 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Stand and Write / Blood Sugar Brain-Fight / PERRY MASON.

Daily running route yard signage report for 09aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 85 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.

My wife is reading Darwyn Cooke’s NEW FRONTIER for the first time. I’m envious: that’s one I wish I could experience for the first time every time I read it.