Finally working on making Drafts my default online writing toolbox. Saving iA Writer for the deeper, long-term projects.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… In-Lawn Allergen Cloud / Mower Blade Quiet.

The Beginner’s Guide to Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour, via Pitchfork.

Death counts become the rhythm of the pandemic in the absence of national mourning, via The Washington Post.

Police: A Man Stabbed His Father to Death On a Zoom Call, via The Cut.

England’s NHS Releases Study on Risk of COVID-19 for People with Diabetes, via Beyond Type One.

3D printers are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, via The Verge.

Jimmy Cobb Dies: Legendary Jazz Drummer Was 91, via Deadline.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I’ve Tried Again Later All Weekend, Criterion Channel…

A goal this and every morning - to be empty after the day’s work, to begin the process of re-filling for tomorrow’s. Definitely there this morning.

Guardian Jorkie.

Unidentified neighbor cat lounging in the morning’s fog / 0500, give or take.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Mirror Shards and Popcorn.

Goodbye, Government. Hello, Mafia, via Foreign Policy.

What Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League is rumored to add to the original, via Polygon.

In Nolan I trust… New TENET trailer.

A Zoo in Japan is Using Stuffed Animal Capybaras to Maintain Social Distancing, via Spoon & Tamago.

Possibly the reason for today’s Criterion-on-Xbox woes? Xbox Live down as Microsoft experiences ‘multiple’ service outages, via The Verge.

Accepting the reign of my hosta overlords.

My first afternoon of precious solitude in weeks and the Criterion Channel XBox app goes wonky. Maybe someday, PERSONA. Maybe someday.

Casting my book recommendation into Micro-verse with my reading list from the last seven years. Most recent mentally/emotionally transformative read: a tie between Jhumpa Lahiri’s THE NAMESAKE and Paul Auster’s 4321.

Status, 22may2020.

EarBliss, 22may2020: GHOSTS V: TOGETHER / GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS, by Nine Inch Nails.

Parenthetical Update, 22may2020: Drafts for the Apple Watch is brilliant but I’ll have to reinstall Just Press Record for daily run thought-exorcism: forgot that Drafts uses Apple’s dictation, so a network connection is required. Oops.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brain Defragmentation, In Progress / Wrist-Cyborg, V2.0.

Current rotation, 21may2020.

Groomed Jorkie / Groomed Morkie

Trying out Drafts on Apple Watch: you may consider me a happy wrist-cyborg again.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 21may2020.

Now IDW Lets Go Of Employees, Permanently, via Bleeding Cool.

A German Student Broke Into an Australian Natural History Museum to Take Selfies With Dinosaur Skeletons, via artnet.

‘Justice League’ #TheSnyderCut Headed To HBO Max In 2021, via Deadline.

Exclusive First Look at New Photograph of Blues Legend Robert Johnson, via Vanity Fair.

Also in kitchen musings: over the last several months, I’ve developed a craving for smoked paprika. Probably a heretofore-unknown corona-symptom, but whatever: the more paprika, the happier I am.

Some might call it a hammer wrapped in aluminum foil. I call it my essential meal prep device/meat tenderizer AKA Improvised Heartlandic Mjolnir.