Netflix is getting really pushy via email: FINISH THIS SHOW. YOU LIKE IT. (I’ll just continue to amuse myself by giving your algorithm a coronary, thankyouverymuch.)

From the writing sanctum walls:

Dog-children + vanquished toy.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Control and the Polyrhythmic Manifestations of Its Lack

Live-action Dr. Mario from a Japanese commercial for Dr. Mario World, via Supper Mario Broth.

You Can Now Have a Multisensory Experience of a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room Online, Thanks to the Broad’s ‘Infinity Drone’, via artnet.

America’s Pandemic War Games Don’t End Well, via Foreign Policy.

Insulin Patch Could Provide Cheap, Simple, and Effective “Cure” for T1D, via Insulin Nation.

Shi-An: A Tea House Made From 4000 Units of Origami, via Spoon and Tamago.

Lawnmowing season = podcast-listening season. Though I have quite a backlog, feel free to send me some of your favorites.

EarBliss, 04apr2020… WE ARE SENT HERE BY HISTORY, by Shabaka and the Ancestors.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Emergent Reflections from a Cracked Funhouse Mirror

Pillow fort.

Current site thinking (just to get it out of my head): though I like the text-only iteration of Parenthetical Recluse, I might bring back the photos for more variety when sharing the pieces to various digital embassies. Black and white only, perhaps. Carry on.

An effort to beat SUPER MARIO BROS. 1, 2, and 3 on the NES Classic: two or three decades later, the muscle memory still holds - though my profanity upon repeated defeat is far more creative.

EarBliss 01apr2020… INVISIBLE CITIES II, by Aidan Baker & Gareth Davis.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Recommended Light Quarantine Reading / Beware the Fools of April.

Just another morning at Fort Puppers.

A Blank Drawn / Months-Long Snow Day / Le Carré — Parenthetical Recluse.

Family meal time.

Current rotation, 30mar2020.

For Over 30 Years Itsuo Kobayashi Has Been Keeping an Illustrated Food Diary, via Spoon & Tamago.

Social Distancing is a Privilege, via Foreign Policy.

Get Shorty at 30: Dennis Lehane on Elmore Leonard’s Hollywood satire, via The Guardian.

Opportunistic Thieves Just Stole a Prized Van Gogh Landscape From a Locked-Down Dutch Museum Under Cover of Night, via artnet.

Judging by the sights and sounds surrounding me in shelter-in-place heartlandia, I’m convinced that post-apocalyptic heartlandia will be overrun with roving gangs on riding lawnmowers fighting to mow lawns in need of tending.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Negative Data and Embedded Bluetooth/Fingerprick Blood Sacrifices.

Frisbeeface.

Newsletter 0095 is in the wild. The day awaits.