Status, 20may2020.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bullet Journal Week / DEEP WORK / Wrist-Cyborg Returneth.

Explorers can take Titanic’s Marconi telegraph, cutting into wreck for first time, via The Washington Post.

Stunning COVID Photo of Compassionate Nurse in Austin, via Reading The Pictures.

Superman Advice on Social Distancing is a Tad Unrealistic, via Bleeding Cool.

Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time (1896), via The Public Domain Review.

Took about two months after “The Great Shattering,” but I’m missing my Apple Watch on a “time to get another one” level.

A work in progress, but I finally added a Status page to Parenthetical Recluse.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…CONTROL, Continued.

She posed as a nurse during the 1918 flu pandemic and went on a crime spree, via The Washington Post.

Covid nostra - The pandemic is creating fresh opportunities for organised crime, via The Economist.

Elon Musk is playing Twitter footsie with the fringe right, via The Verge.

Artwork from a 1986 Super Mario Bros. calendar from Japan, via Supper Mario Broth.

She’s a competent official, a rare luxury these days: A white-coated hero or a ‘medical dictator’? Ohio’s Amy Acton inspires admiration, and a backlash, with tough coronavirus response, via The Washington Post.

Latest additions to the to-read stockpile.

The more I consider it, the wiser the retreat into the blog/Micro/newsletter feels. PlagueYear/ElectionYear sanity FTW.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Retreating Into the Parenthetical Trinity Again, Maybe, Probably.

The jury.

This week’s MacroParentheticals dispatch is in the ether: the week is done. And there was much rejoicing (yay).

Important news: I have given the Dog-Children their own channel at MicroParentheticals. Carry on.

EarBliss, 16may2020/two-fer edition: THE MOSAIC OF TRANSFORMATION, by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / and DEEP THOUKUS, by Deep Thoukus.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… CONTROL / An Informal Dispatch from the Heartlandic Fog.

A new comic (and process sketches) by Nick Sousanis is always reason to celebrate: No Sides, via Nick Sousanis.

Astrid Kirchherr Dies: Beatles Photographer, MopTop Inspiration Was 81, via Deadline.

How Animation Saved ‘The Blacklist’ Season 7 Finale During Lockdown, via IndieWire.

“Prior assumptions about our business no longer apply”: Cuts pile up at Vice, Quartz, The Economist, BuzzFeed, and Condé Nast, via Nieman Journalism Lab.

Reopening Hollywood: Michael Mann On Resuming Ansel Elgort-Ken Watanabe HBO Max Drama ‘Tokyo Vice;’ And What About That ‘Heat’ Prequel?, via Deadline.

I derive a ridiculous amount of comfort from David Lynch’s daily weather report.

I always knew my wife was a remarkable teacher but little did I know that she was also a gifted soothsayer. As evidence, her final vocabulary list before the pandemic shutdown.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Daylight Encroaches / Neighborly Proximity / THE SEVENTH SEAL.

‘Morning.

Here comes the drop(kick): The sick beats in ‘Streets of Rage’, via The Washington Post.

Electronic Sound and ANTI: Music Review on Retrophonica, via Elizabeth Joan Kelly.

Currently playing CONTROL; it’ll be fun to revisit WAKE: Alan Wake comes to Game Pass for its 10th anniversary, via Polygon.

EarBliss, 14may2020: LIVE IN WILLISAU, by James Brandon Lewis and Chad Taylor.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Handwritten InLawn and Other Experiments.