Regular restatement of the truth that my handwriting is shit and that I need to do better at making it useful beyond the rhythmic exorcism of now-useless shit from my brain which might have been useful had I been able to read what I wrote five minutes later.

EarBliss, 07dec2020: GARDEN, by Uncivilized.

Finished GEARS OF WAR 2. On to 3, sooner rather than later. Hooked on this series - better late than never.

Good morning: the weekly newsletter, it has returned; MacroParentheticals 0030 is on its way into the ether.

It’d be much easier to find my glasses if I were wearing my glasses.

1.) I am incapable of working with any semblance of depth on more than one fiction project per day, no matter how removed they may be from one another in form, content, or medium.

2.) Workblocks must be scheduled close together; any gap of longer than an hour - two at most - and I have to spend most of the second block starting over because I’ve forgotten everything I’ve written.

3.) Specific tasks and small assignments done in a disciplined, single-task manner are the key that keeps my brain open long enough to produce something, anything, of value upon which I can build the next day.

EarBliss, 05dec2020: FORCE MAJEURE, by Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger.

Reading, 05dec2020:

And lo, the yards were filled with bits of dismembered snowmen.

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EarBliss, 04dec2020: SPEAK LOW II, by Lucia Cadotsch.

That crack was the sound of my heart breaking as my beloved Lamy 2000 fell to the concrete floor.

Ohio coronavirus picture darkens rapidly, via Ohio Capital Journal.

The Macabre and the EroticーArtworks Tell the Story of Japan’s Diversity, via Japan Forward.

Does it matter if The Crown Fictionalises Reality?, via The Economist. (No.)

Why Warner Bros. had to move its 2021 films to HBO Max, via The Verge.

Update: the tree is assembled; I have Christmased.

Tree assembly aides.

“To see complex systems of functional order as order, and not as chaos, takes understanding.”

— Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” p. 489

Izzy’s folly; a bad idea in progress.

How Francis Ford Coppola Got Pulled Back In to Make ‘The Godfather, Coda', via The New York Times.

Warner Bros Sets Entire 2021 Movie Slate To Debut On HBO Max Along With Cinemas In Seismic Windows Model Shakeup, via Deadline.

Why Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy, via The Markup.

COVID-19: Hand Sanitizer Poisonings Soar, Psych Patients at Risk, via Medscape.

Sanctum / office post-expansion.

Random evening thought: I miss writing for other people, for platforms other than ones I’ve built. Love my gardens of thought, but it’d be nice to branch out again.

After numerous and creative profanities, the printer is connected to the new router and the elliptical is reassembled: disaster averted - at least until one of us is brave enough to use it again (it being the elliptical, not the printer, but maybe that too).

Update: the printer worked and the elliptical has neither fallen to pieces nor blown up. Little victories.

EarBliss, 02dec2020: FOGHORNIA, by Tapani Rinne.