Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Why Yes I Do Like Thinking in This Space Again.


Macro0032, featuring snow sagas and falling ducks (and their spaceships), is on its way to inboxes; the week ends / the week begins.


Watching: THE SILENCE (1963), dir. Ingmar Bergman.


EarBliss, 19dec2020 (album of the year edition): AXIOM, by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On “Hurt” (with Grogu).


First morning on a new side project and it fucking terrifies me (which tells me I’m doing the right thing).


We’ve reached the part of the day when The Jorkie and The Morkie issue little growls, one -orkie after the other, at nothing in particular. Such is their canon.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… In Remembrance of Omelet Realizations* Remembered.



Links, 17dec2020

LEGO Roses (40460) & Tulips (40461) Set Details, via Brickfan.

‘Twitter killer’ who dismembered nine victims receives death sentence in Japan, via The Washington Post.

‘Night Court’ Sequel In Works At NBC With John Larroquette As Dan Fielding, Harry Stone’s Daughter As Focus & Melissa Rauch As EP, via Deadline.

Federal investigators find evidence of previously unknown tactics used to penetrate government networks, via The Washington Post.

The year when everything changed, via The Economist.


EarBliss, 17dec2020: A DISTANT LOSS, by hakobune.


The Coda arrives.


Reading:


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Gratitude v. Guilt.


Snow-Morkie.


(Upon returning from the) Snow-Run.


Snow-run.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Handwritten Piano.


Reading:


One to-read stack down, seven to go. They’re turned around so I have no idea what I’m choosing. Two rules: one, once I finish a stack, I have to finish it; and two, I’m not allowed to buy new books until a stack is complete.



Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Only one way to find out.


Links, 14dec2020

Hijacking the electoral college: The plot to deny JFK the presidency 60 years ago, via The Washington Post.

Cyberpunk 2077 maker apologizes for terrible PS4/Xbox One launch, promises refunds, via Polygon.

Alicia Vikander To Star In TV Adaptation Of Olivier Assayas’ Feature Film ‘Irma Vep’ For HBO, via Deadline.

Disney World is going to stop photoshopping masks onto people, via The Verge.


New glasses: selected and ordered. Will remain blurry in my peeling anti-reflective haze until their arrival.