EarBliss, 14dec2020: FIFTEEN, by SPC ECO.

One of my favorite minds and storytellers - RIP: John le Carré Dies: Author Of ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ And Other Thrillers Was 89.

I’ve helped with Christmas decor and I think the glitter is seared into my hands.

Featuring notes on dilated pupils, pod guests, and MIA running partner turkeys, Issue 0031 of MacroParentheticals is on its way to inboxes. The week ends, the week begins.

The morning battle of revolving door wills between myself on one side and The Morkie and The Jorkie on the other has begun: you don’t let us in within two seconds of when we want in, we won’t come in when you want us to come in ten seconds later. (This is the way.)

The Zodiac Killer sent a cipher 51 years ago. A team of amateur code-breakers just cracked it, via The Washington Post.

20 striking findings from 2020, via Pew Research Center.

Disney plans to match Netflix in its spending on streaming, via The Economist.

Cyberpunk 2077 Is Looking Rough On PS4 And Xbox One At The Moment, via Kotaku.

Watching: PALE FLOWER (1964), dir. Masahiro Shinoda.

I haven’t seen my running partner turkey in a few days and I’m beginning to worry.

EarBliss, 12dec2020: MIA GARGARET, by Gia Margaret.

Reading, 12dec2020:

EarBliss, 11dec2020: THE FALL / DENNIS JOHNSON’S NOVEMBER DECONSTRUCTED, by Lustmord + Nicolas Horvath.

Japan’s new Kit Kats are aged in whisky barrels in Scotland for 180 days, via Japan Forward.

Don Quixote in the 20th Century (ca. 1905), via The Public Domain Review.

With Pandemic Surging, Ohio Gov. DeWine Dials Back His Aggressive Response, via Medscape.

‘Zorro’ Drama With Female Lead From Robert Rodriguez, Rebecca Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara & Propagate In Works At NBC, via Deadline.

Come March, this will be mine: World of Wong Kar Wai, via The Criterion Collection.

My view for most of the afternoon. (New glasses + making sure the T1D hasn’t fried my eyes (It hasn’t.))

The only thing I hate more than small talk is the loud small talk of others in a waiting room.

EarBliss, 10dec2020: AFTER GEOGRAPHY, by Forest Robots.

This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Inspiration’s Reckoning and Reconciliation.

Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS remains my favorite film of the year.

Honored to have been invited to offer what meager advice I could to these students as they created their comics tales of COVID-life; the end results of their efforts are spectacular.

It only took forever to click for me on a visceral level but: it’s amazing the amount of ideas and actionable steps forward that emerge when you let go of a lifetime of mental fuckeries.

Reading, 08dec2020…