Update to the update: he’s heading home. All clear.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Current Social Media Mental Space, Etc.
EarBliss, 19jun2020: ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS, by Bob Dylan (it’s as good as the reviews and then some. Easily his best since TIME OUT OF MIND.)
Update to the update: Dehydration but he’s doing fine; rest and fluids helping. All tests and scans normal. An overnight stay, just to stay on top of progress. His first ER visit in his 93 years. A solid record, I think.
Update: hospital, though he’s doing ok.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Crises Internal and Their Amelioration By Way of Mulch, Mostly.
Links, 18jun2020
Warner Bros, DC To Develop Original Podcasts With Spotify, via Deadline.
Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations, via The Public Domain Review.
‘Making The Cut’ Hosts Tim Gunn & Heidi Klum Play With Fashion Competition Formula After Leaving ‘Project Runway’ Behind, via Deadline.
An Obsession with Retro Japanese Rounded-Corner Windows, via Spoon & Tamago.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Unmoored / TWICE UPON A TIME.
Links, 17jun2020-B
Topsychopor by Roland Topor, via feuilleton.
North Korea blows up detente with the South, via The Economist.
The Van Gogh Museum Paid $236,000 for a Revealing Letter by Van Gogh and Gauguin About Their Visits to Brothels, via artnet.
Braveheart writer Randall Wallace on the four-hour version we never saw, via Polygon.
Today’s afternoon garden work: we dug up the old stone pathway, mulched (so much mulch), and put the path back in.
Links, 17jun2020-A
Former eBay executives charged with cyberstalking after allegedly sending bloody pig mask to bloggers, via The Washington Post.
Kawanable Kyōsai’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (1890), via The Public Domain Review.
Forgotten Civil War map shows Antietam as a cemetery, via The Washington Post.
The massive power of the George Floyd protests, via Axios.
How — and When — Can the Coronavirus Vaccine Become a Reality?, via ProPublica.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep / Yard Signage Report, 17jun2020
Efforts to shape my day into a useful balance of spinning plates and roles are bearing fruit. All about finding that right rhythm.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… THE GLASS HOTEL / Bullet Journal Update.
Links, 15jun2020
A plan to turn the atmosphere into one enormous sensor, via The Economist.
How America’s Hospitals Survived the First Wave of the Coronavirus, via ProPublica.
How Muscle Works in Moscow, via Foreign Policy.
PlayStation and Xbox are not in a ‘console war.’ They’re racing in different directions, via The Washington Post.
A Hospital’s Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns, via ProPublica.
New York City Has Salvaged John F. Kennedy’s Lost Navy Patrol Boat From a Cove Off the Coast of Manhattan, via artnet.
New Guidance to Help Manage OCD During COVID-19, via Medscape.
I paid an Etsy psychic to draw my soulmate, via The Verge.
Routine: consider Twitter again - post to Twitter again - remember everyone you interacted with is already on your newsletter list - delete postings - rejoice in having saved yourself the mental slot machine hellscape as you bask in calmer waters - carry on.
