Daily running route yard signage report for 03aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 91 days and 11 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Doomscroll / Buzzkill / Baby Yoda.

Monk’s dream deferred: a record in limbo, via The Economist.

Democrats demand answers from U.S. ambassador after reports he asked Brazil for favor to help Trump in 2020, via The Washington Post.

Bill Barr Has Done This Before, via ProPublica.

TikTok, Trump, and Our Kids’ Attention, via Kevin’s Meandering Mind.

Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters, via The Washington Post.

The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts, via The Washington Post.

Figured out a solution to the the aforementioned timesuck problem: installed Forest on the iPad and I’ve started turning it on during non-working hours. Bye random checking/scouring out of boredom, hello set times for scouring/connecting.

Daily running route yard signage report for 02aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 92 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Screen Time would be a lot more useful - I think, anyhow - if you could limit your number of app opens as well as time.

A wordy - though update-laden - 15th dispatch of MacroParentheticals is on its way to inboxes; the week ends, the week begins.

Saturday.

Daily running route yard signage report for 01aug2020: 110 houses, 7* Tumor/Pestilence signs (-1), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 93 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.

*It vanished in the rain.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Blisses Followed and Corkboards Pinned and Etc Etc Etc.

Finally found more Chemex filters. Preparations complete for the next phase of the plague.

110 houses, 8* Tumor/Pestilence signs (+1), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 94 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

*a tentative, though not undisturbing addition: a Tumor/Pestilence drawing in sidewalk chalk by the children of one of the Tumor/Pestilence sign-bearers. As the motivation for chalk rendering will remain forever unclear - was it drawn just because the sign was above it and within the kids' field of vision? most likely, but - I’m recording it here for the sake of accurate reflection, in full knowledge that it will vanish in the next rain and was drawn, most likely, in innocence.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Latest Necessity in Educator Back-to-School Supplies: Last Wills & Testaments.

A heartening morning on the podcast thinking front. I miss interviewing people, and seeing that a platform towards doing it again is beginning to take shape is exciting.

At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks, via The Washington Post.

Biden’s staff must delete TikTok from their personal and work phones, via The Verge.

Anthony Fauci Explains Why the US Still Hasn’t Beaten Covid, via WIRED.

New Batman interactive animated movie will let you kill Robin, via Polygon.

This was the week America lost the war on misinformation, via The Washington Post.

Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State, via The New Yorker.

Mulchapalooza 2020 continues.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… When Eagles Attack / TO:KY:OO.

Finally purchased Liam Wong’s sublime book of Tokyo night photography, TO:KY:OO, and am already in love. A remarkable work of art.

Daily running route yard signage report for 29jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 96 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Horns Honking and Yard Signs Signing.

It’s been a week since I’ve posted to the “big two” social network slot machines and it’s been wonderful. (Recording this here for reference should the urge to crawl back without specific purpose arise.)

Daily running route yard signage report for 28jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (-1), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 97 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Selfishly Considering I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK.