Political prognostication: “the race is reset” will be the dominant headline every 10-15 minutes through Election Day.
Newsletter 0091 is in the wild; the next Parenthetical Recluse piece, on my first time reading Kirby’s FOURTH WORLD saga, is drafted and nearly ready for Wednesday’s launch. The week is done.
”When I got together 300 bucks – which took a while – I went to the bank and withdrew it all in quarters, which I triple-wrapped in pillowcases to take to New York City and the huge public library on 42nd Street… For days on end I fed my quarters into a micro fiche machine as I researched every detail of her murder.”
— James Ellroy, on writing The Black Dahlia, via The Guardian.
The (mainstream) social plug is pulled: Twitter and Instagram sabbaticals initiated, leaving only this space, my main site - for weekly essays, and the newsletter as outlets to the world. Yay for a quieter internet.
The poster art of Josef Vyletal, via {feuilleton}.
While Nir Eyal’s INDISTRACTIBLE has some useful information, the dust jacket is so distracting that I had to remove it so the book wouldn’t scream at me every time I looked up from my desk.
Cults and Conservatives Spread Coronavirus in South Korea, via Foreign Policy.
Butler’s DAWN is one of my favorite books. Looking forward to this. Victoria Mahoney, Ava DuVernay Developing Sci-Fi Series at Amazon, via Variety.
Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the famous ‘Konami Code,’ has died, via The Washington Post.
Very well, Micro.blog, you’ve won: cross-posting is off and I’m taking a sabbatical from my Twitterself in the name of election year sanity, making this my primary thoughtspace / stream. Next, to figure out this tagmoji thing.
This week, at Parenthetical Recluse: on running, depression, and the onslaught of GhostChihuahua… To Run is to Outrun Myself.
In the midst of primary season, I find an antique ballot box with a pterodactyl bursting forth to be the only office decor that feels right.
