EarBliss, 18nov2020: @ BREMEN 1964 & 1975, by Charles Mingus.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… This Fleeting Process of (Profane) Processing.

It’s Time to Hunker Down, via The Atlantic.

The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave, via ProPublica.

The Texas governor who refused to concede after losing a bitter election, via The Washington Post.

Amazon starts selling prescription drugs, with two-day delivery for Prime members, via Vox.

Mike Campbell on life after Tom Petty: ‘I think I found my own voice’, via The Guardian.

‘Smart’ Insulin Pen With CGM First to Launch in Emerging Field, via Medscape.

Terence Winter Exits ‘The Batman’ HBO Max TV Series, via Deadline.

The President’s Daily Brief and Presidents-Elect: A Primer, via Lawfare.

(Duly filed under “holy shit”): 9,036-piece LEGO Colosseum, via LEGO.

Bringing in the leaves.

Watching, 17nov2020: MAD LOVE (1935); dir. Karl Freund.

Since Ohio’s content do the bare minimum for COVID-prevention and attempting to appeal to non-existent “common sense”/better angels of nature, I’ll use my sterling business sense to suggest a new mask-wearing sign initiative for businesses: “Mask up or fuck off.”

Learning that once I reach the point of nearly giving up on a project, the words I’ve been seeking seem to pop up and the project lives to fight another day. Not sure if it’s a breakthrough or a cruel fuck you destined for frustration and heartbreak, but I’ll take it.

First snow-run of the season inbound.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Upon a (Daily) Return, Again.

EarBliss, 17nov2020: ANNUMINAS, by Arctica.

Status.

Quinones’s DREAMLAND is giving the changes I’ve seen around this little slice of atrophied heartlandia a deeper, more tragic context. An essential and eye-opening read.

Well, then - that was some impressive weather.

This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Upon a Return.

Reading: Wrapped up Nick Bostrom’s (terrifying) SUPERINTELLIGENCE and a re-read of Jiro Kuwata’s BAT-MANGA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN and moved on to Sam Quinones’s DREAMLAND. My complete reading list, from now back through 2013, lives here; evidence of the week’s abundant internetting lives on my Links channel.

Listening: BECAUSE OF A FLOWER, by Ana Roxanne… ARTLESSLY FALLING, by Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl…BURNHEART, by Johanna Burnheart… JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA, by Alice Coltrane… … and more await in the Micro EarBliss archive.

Watching: DOCTOR WHO, Series 11…. THE MANDALORIAN, Season Two… THE REPAIR SHOP, Season Two… RUST VALLEY RESTORERS, Season Three… and in weekend film viewing, the enjoyable ENOLA HOLMES, from Netflix.

Playing: L.A. NOIRE, a replay / revisit, continued - homicide desk, at present; Phelps still an awful protagonist.

First morning in longer than I can remember without penning and sending a newsletter (switched from weekly to monthly last week). Nonetheless, a new post will arrive at Parenthetical Recluse later this morning.

Sanctum / Office expansion and redesign: the day’s work, in pictures…

Update to the update: three out of three missing cables have been located. Calm has returned.

Update: two of the three missing cables have been found.

Hunkering down.

When you set aside the necessary cables and forget where, exactly, you set them aside.

Neighborhood turkey running partner update: he was out and about, but didn’t join me - apparently I’ve become old news and thus unworthy of his fascination.