Newsletter is written and sent; so ends the week. Project folder review and the day’s run await.
Links, 06jun2020
I Cover Cops as an Investigative Reporter. Here Are Five Ways You Can Start Holding Your Department Accountable, via ProPublica.
The good news, the bad news and the scariest jobs chart you’ll see, via The Washington Post.
Facebook employees said they were ‘caught in an abusive relationship’ with Trump as internal debates raged, via The Washington Post.
The World’s Weakest Strongman, via Foreign Policy.
The Trump Regime is Beginning to Topple, via The Atlantic.
David Lynch gives his daily weather report and describes his dream of his death at Normandy: Weather Report 6/6/20, via David Lynch Theater.
My contribution to the garden: from wheelbarrow to clematis climbing wall. Note: while my wife is the expert gardener (I’ll share her work as the summer goes on), I - like a typical garden pest - just dig holes and move things around. But at least my living stone still lives.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 06jun2020.
My wife just bought me a Living Stone succulent. Judging by its care requirements, it‘s the perfect plant for me.
I can always depend on the work of László Krasznahorkai to pull my brain out of its overused patterns.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Drift Synthesis and Further Adventures in Useful Brain Function.
Links, 04jun2020
VizPol takes a cue from bird-watching apps to help journalists identify unfamiliar political symbols, via Nieman Lab.
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution, via The Atlantic.
The last American to collect a Civil War pension has died, via The Washington Post.
Red Dead Redemption 2 fans’ hunt for the real John Marston, via Polygon.
The Facebook Groups Where People Pretend the Pandemic Isn’t Happening, via The Atlantic.
“But for those who see clearly that it is a circle and why it is a circle, there is no alternative but to stop circling.”
—Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Brain-Clearing Statement of Purpose Again, Maybe.
Links, 03jun2020
CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns abroad see troubling parallels in Trump’s handling of protests, via The Washington Post.
‘Batwoman’: Title Character To Have New Identity Following Ruby Rose’s Exit, via Deadline.
SEGA Is Releasing A Game Gear Micro Portable System, via Bleeding Cool.
Rural Counties Rank among Best – and Worst – for Infections in May, via The Daily Yonder.
Documenting a Protest Has Never Been More Challenging, via Reading the Pictures.
Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. watches from Japan, via Supper Mario Broth.
Biden Has Changed - For the Better, via The Atlantic.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes from This Bastion of Days That Never Existed.
Office / Sanctum (haphazard) design aesthetic: antique mall booth, a sense of potential discovery at all times.
Links, 02jun2020
Autocrats Love Using the Bible as a Prop. Americans Shouldn’t, via Foreign Policy.
Mexico’s missing mummy mystery, via The Economist.
A massive Raphael exhibit reopens in Rome. Six people can enter every five minutes, via The Washington Post.
Video game preservationists reconstruct decades-lost, never-released NES game, via Polygon.
The Comet Book (1587), via The Public Domain Review.
A small group of essential reads for transforming thought and expanding perspective. While assembling this collection for this photo, a realization that it’s imperative that I continue to expand it.
A morning of outrunning the monster in my brain and its fondness for replaying the same destructive loops. Stupid “greatest hits albums.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… 02jun2020.
The smallest two of our dog-children (AKA The Rulers, AKA The Brain-Trust..AKA…), as immortalized by one of my wife’s former students.
