: Perused help topic and I think I’m ok, but wanted to be sure. Changed username: am I ok on the …
: Met a new dog friend today: a blind husky wandering the streets. Fortunately I knew where she lived, …
: Baked ravioli offering for in-law family: complete.
: sat/20221126: systems collisions etc
: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is brilliant. So good.
: 🔗 The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser | The Verge
: Other nice part using of this Micro->Mastodon system: I’m now Mastodon-verified.
: just a test to make sure i didn’t blow something up
: The insulin pump has arrived. Let the era of cybernetic keeping me alive commence (after appropriate …
: 🎧earbliss/20221125: BLUEBLUE, by Sam Gendel
: 🔗 Stunning: Metal Sculptor Shota Suzuki Crafts Exquisitely Detailed Blooms That Express the Passing …
: Filed under: weirder, deadlier, and potentially more useful (back)roadside finds along the …
: if any of you come across my kitchen scissors let me know, ok
: fri/20221125: spacestreamthinking
: That was the most relaxing Thanksgiving I’ve had in twenty years. No family, no pressure to …
: 🔗 Love (not $159k love, but love): Chevy 3100 pickups from the 1950s get an electric makeover | …
: Think I’ve got the posting/re-toolings set: daily posts and projects and pod at main; …
: Kirby striking a mid-walk pose.
: Recap of last year for Micro.blog friends (and Mastodonians as well): still alive / still running / …
: Micro->Mastodon testing will continue throughout the day. Decisions decisions, etc etc.
: (reposting from PR amidst site(s) reorganization): Itsa mine! My watch otaku-ness continues. But I …
: Hi, Micro-people. The dogchildren and I are back. Using this space as a way to stick to once-daily …
: Testing testing Micro -> Mastodon. Here’s a dog picture
: Resuming transmission… maybe. Test test, etc.
: Combined my About and (former) Status pages into one mutant hybrid. Think it makes things a little …
: Worry aside, an eventful and exciting day ahead.
: My wife’s first day of school with kids. Fortunately, she’s fully vaccinated and in one …
: Watching (for the first time in far too long):
: Next time I say “I think I’ll move (insert small, easily lost object) somewhere where I won’t forget …
: Kirby’s new favorite activity: helping me roll up the yoga mat.
: (I should add that I’m talking about my wife, a sixth-grade teacher. We don’t have kids (she gets 75 …
: And so the in-person return to school begins for K. May my anxieties and distrust of others’ …
: I’ll take a Captain Carter movie or series now please.
: Kirby, Day One and today, 131 days later…
: North by Northwest only with a flock of geese pursuing me on the day’s run.
: Links, 15aug2021 COVID-19 of the Future: Endemic and Mostly in Young Children?, via Medscape. How the Pandemic Now …
: Trust the process - even though it will most likely change with every project. (At least that’s how …
: Didn’t envision “dive out of a rising dump bed into a pine tree” being part of my weekend plans but…
: No clue if this morning’s breakthrough is something or not – but I do know that it’s not …
: (Re)Watching (for the nth time): (Every bit as brilliant as I remember - and then some. Still one of …
: In which Kirby discovers the joys of shredding paper towels. I’m only amazed that it took this long.
: Another addition to the Blu-library.
: Research for the next Socialized Recluse interview…
: Insulin has arrived: another (increased) payment in my lifetime installment plan/ransom to not die …
: "Grandiose ideas," ha A surge of activity on all fronts this morning but with it an omnipresent back-of-mind worry that, …
: “We’re having weather, Dad.”
: Links, 11aug2021 I’m going to own 55 copies of MULHOLLAND DRIVE before my expiration date: Citizen Kane to Lead …
: EarBliss, 11aug2021: DISSENT, CHAPTER 1-10, by Heinrich Köbberling, Laurel Halo & Moritz Von …
: It’s almost as if Kirby wants to test the patience instilled from a yoga session by helping me roll …
: From the Parenthetical Archives: my February SOCIALIZED RECLUSE conversation with Alison Gaylin, …
: The pervasive creative well-being resulting from the choice to not waste one’s breath or time.
: The first issue of BATMAN ‘89 more than rewarded my anticipation: a wonderful return to a …
: Note to self: the benefits of finally letting yourself work on that long-gestating comics project …
: It would seem that the key to writing and publishing daily things is for me to say I’m done writing …
: WKW Q&A / The middle board is empty In the midst of scouring the multide of streaming services seeking that 15 minute thing (how this is …
: Links, 09aug2021 Abbott Labs to Pay $160 Mln Over Kickbacks, False Diabetes Claims to Medicare, via Medscape. The …
: I’ve been hoping to find a way to add this table - my grandmother’s - to my office. Finally found …
: Latest game in Kirby’s oeuvre is “I know you’re looking for that dish towel but you have to figure …
: EarBliss, 09aug2021: AER, by Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile.
: A brilliant mail day to start the week.
: Chronicle of a Project's Death Foretold Had a feeling that it would happen, that I would return from a project break and find myself in the …
: Project Board: clear, more or less With the launch of this second story, it’s the first time since February that, other than …
: EarBliss, 06aug2021: RICHTER: EXILES, by the Baltic Sea Philharmonic and Kristjan Järvi.
: THE SUICIDE SQUAD was the most fun I’ve had watching a comic book film in ages (since SCOTT …
: Incoming: my new short story, SPOKENSOFTLY, will be arriving later this morning for newsletter …
: Kirby just caught the frisbee with a tennis ball in his mouth. Consider me impressed, dog-child.
: Meanwhile, in “better late than never” news: that whole “submit your show to Apple …
: My least favorite running season is chipseal season.
: The hills are alive with the screams of the feral neighbor-children and my brain is already at …
: New: UNFLATTENING creator Nick Sousanis joins me on THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE to discuss his work, his …
: Update from pod-land: my interview with Nick Sousanis is assembled and ready to go for tomorrow. …
: My brain is adrift in pod-land.
: Anesthetized Jorkies / Incoming Outputs The Jorkie is presently sedated and having her teeth cleaned. Much consternation and trembling this …
: Next TSR interview - and first edited in Ferrite - is done. The process will still take a bit of …
: Ensmallening the big (work) picture / mind-body recalibration cont'd. Anti-depressant helping immensely during waking hours but last night turned sleeping hours into …
: Links, 01aug2021 Covid Is Pulling the Plug on Beloved Japanese Arcades, via WIRED. Lucia Mantione: murdered Sicilian …
: Finding myself in that comics headspace again In the midst of a morning spent facing something I haven’t faced in a very long while, that …
: Progress, solutions, and story updates Rethinking the purpose of these daily experiments (again) and I’ve found that, since …
: Of transformations and aestival unclickenings Kirby training has come undone and the second story has become something that I hadn’t forseen …
: A note from myself to myself on a morning when I feel like I’ve hoped to feel Grey skies, certainly, but only outside – and, though I know that this sensation (or lack thereof) …
: Amphibious swimming holes and fingers crossed The waterfall is continuing – on a surface level and seemingly – to not leak. A frog made it its …
: When you ask yourself, “What the fuck is this becoming?” while working on a story, odds …
: Spent much of yesterday repairing and rebuilding the koi pond waterfall. Turned it back on this …
: Kirby is running back and forth across the kitchen, squeaking his favorite toy, which can mean only …
: Recalibration, continued Never mind Saturday’s post: after a few days, decided that I prefer, at least for a bit, the daily …
: This month’s MacroParentheticals dispatch, featuring title and cover reveals - and a stab at a …
: Revisiting the first arc of Brubaker and Phillips’s CRIMINAL (“Coward”): it’s just as good as I …
: The town is alive with sirens, terrible country music, and honking horns all proceeding SLOWLY down …
: Finished the final season of BOSCH: excellent, save for a.) the rushed wrap of plotlines that …
: Interview maps and paths Success: the Zoom PodTrack P4 is, until it proves otherwise, the answer to my pod-recording dilemmas …
: (K told me the name of this one but I can’t remember it, so I’ll go with my name for all non-weed …
: Hearkening back in the name of pod mindpeace New pod equip arrives today: a Zoom PodTrack P4 recorder. After Friday’s disaster of a …
: Changing Frequencies / Retiring THE GROUND LOOP Efforts at quieting things down are afoot and, after much (over)-consideration, I’ve …
: First bookstore visit in a year and a half:
: 19jul2021 Slowly coming around – and by slowly, I mean it’s taken ten years – to the truth that I will …
: Once thought that 23-week-old German Shepherd puppy-assisted yoga was the apex of my wild times. …
: In which one of my “might as well have a sense of humor about your chronic illness because you’re …
: EarBliss: TRENCADIS, by William Parker.
: 18jul2021 (Sunday etc edition) … partway through GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE: so far, the most interesting part of it is the …
: 17jul2021 Weary, worn out and all of that. While my relief that yesterday’s interviewee was so gracious …
: Frequencies and methods: the evolution continues (or devolution, whichever).
: Few things draw my ire as much as sticky notes that don’t stick.
: The dog-children, in their natural habitat.
: Fiddling around with the Apple Pencil and the iPad: a big no to handwriting posts (my handwriting …
: I’ve been doing the family balancing-act gig since my early double digits and I can say, beyond a …
: Meanwhile, on THE GROUND LOOP: building creative homes, evolution, experimenting, and fucking up – …
: Morning forearm exercises via butter and cast iron skillet.
: Status page duly updated to feature new stuff which I’m only calling new stuff because I …
: The pathological need to mow tiny lawns with large riding lawnmowers is one that I’ll never …
: EarBliss: OJOS DE GATO, by Giovanni Guidi.
: Because a sanctum without a dog bed in your long-retired drumset isn’t a sanctum at all.
: Proof of Existence, 05-10jul2021 Appears that these Informalities have found their way to being the digital, blathering omega to the …
: And I am, mostly Awake. Main, deep work done for the day – finally some light peeking through on the novella. …
: News: Tip Jar Launch / Etc Etc Long in the brainworks, but: I’ve decided that it’s time to – if not charge directly for …
: Encore: reminders to myself, proving them - and probably myself - wrong, and breathing: this week’s …
: One of those very pleasant – and very rare – days in which all the threads and loops and dots and …
: Each time I look forward to finally working in the afternoons, I’m reminded why I don’t …
: 21-week-old German Shepherd puppy yoga.
: It rained; my office didn’t flood (yet). Victory is mine (for the moment).
: New, on THE GROUND LOOP: Purpose, breath, depressive episodes, Rilke, Sting, reminders to myself, …
: When I know I’ve taken thirty seconds too long to eat my breakfast.
: Dear driver: while I would think that horse shit would be far easier to clean off your car than my …
: Meanwhile, in Informalities… loves, quirks, frustrations, fears, and more: “Notes from …
: Important update: I have survived a family gathering.
: Even in my darkest moments, I never fail to appreciate the irony that my in-laws, the resoundingly …
: A swim in the sanctum in the rain Title of this Informality aside, the sanctum, fortunately, did not flood. Victory is mine. (Though I …
: Oh, you know. Watching the rain, towels in hand, to make sure my office doesn’t flood. Update: it …
: New: Antique malls, challenges, exorcisms, and faith in my own taste collide in this week’s …
: Meanwhile... 30jun2021 First iPad Pro / Ferrite + Audioshare recording went much better than I thought it would. Pretty …
: (Duly filed under “Yes It Took Me This Long” but) STAR TREK: DISCOVERY is really good.
: Meanwhile... 29jun2021 Good morning; it’s currently 78ºF under sunny skies. Thanks to a solid night of sleep, a …
: EarBliss, 28jun2021: ALTER, by Lustmord and Karin Park.
: Meanwhile... 28jun2021 Paying for a lazy Sunday in T1D currency, in that omnipresent feeling of not being able to stop, of …
: NL Sunday / Proof of Existence, 23-26jun2021 The week that was: THE GROUND LOOP, Ep0008 - “What’s your omelette recipe?” …
: Seven years; happy anniversary, my love.
: I Have Eaten in a Restaurant / iPadWork, Day Two Anniversary dinner (seventh, on Sunday), Sea Bass and steamed mussels and something else that …
: The Work, iPad Edition - Day One Yesterday: a surprise - and most welcome - early arrival of my M1 11" iPad Pro. Took an hour, …
: Autocorrect transformed my mangling of “Stories” into “So tired” and I’m pretty sure it’s trying to …
: Links, 24jun2021 Marvel Launches NFT Comics And Collectibles Line With Veve, via Bleeding Cool. Search is on for …
: Hello, beautiful. Let’s get to work.
: No poison hemlock for you Good morning; it’s currently 63ºF under sunny skies. Completed requisite Wednesday in-lawn …
: For what it’s worth, I’m on Discord (for) now. I have no clue what to do with it or how to share my …
: I’ll see your goat yoga and raise you 19-week-old German Shepherd puppy yoga.
: Meanwhile…, 23jun2021 Writing these daily things again because I like writing them and trying to title and center these …
: New, on THE GROUND LOOP: power outages, cast iron, Fiestaware OCD, paprika, DIRT 5, and more in this …
: EarBliss, 22jun2021: ANNUMINAS, by Arctica.
: As with the dog-children who need out as I put that first bite of dinner in my mouth - and as with …
: Digital Housecleaning Update Newsletter switched to manual signup. Just an extra layer of vetting and moderation. Last Sunday of …
: Confirmation that it’s still raining.
: Update: I’ve cooked thousands of omelets over the last several years, but this might be the …
: Three-egg omelet — cast-iron grilled, power-outage-infused edition. Triangular because my …
: Also: Kirby chewed through my mixer power cord (not plugged in). So, truly, a banner day.
: That kind of day, apparently (I tripped over Kirby while carrying too much, landed on floor; the …
: News: in order to eliminate spam signups, be more mindful of who has my mailing address, and base …
: A banner day for Kirby, vanquisher of toys and folded blankets.
: This town smells like a box of old crayons when it rains.
: EarBliss, 18jun2021: AWASE, by Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin.
: Links, 17jun2021 The Terrestrial Status of Boston, via BLDGBLOG. Animals weighing themselves are Japan’s newest line …
: One of my favorite films - a most welcome addition to the Blu library.
: An hour later, the neighbor is still using his leaf blower.
: Status, 17jun2021 Good morning; it’s currently 57°F under sunny skies and, since +/- 0740, the neighbor is using …
: Status, 16jun2021 Good morning; it’s currently 55°F under sunny skies. Ep0005 of The Socialized Recluse, …
: New: author Christina Rice joins me on THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE to discuss her latest, MEAN… …
: Status update: performed in-lawn duties with nary a blood sugar crash in sight. Neener neener …
: The Jorkie, safely ensconced in her Kirby-proof fortress.
: Status, 15jun2021 Good morning; it’s currently 61°F under sunny skies. Another morning with the pod, one more …
: Links, 14jun2021 Booze made from wood coming soon in Japan, via SoraNews24 -Japan News. Most excited by news of a …
: Completed my Leone collection upgrade: Blu is a good color on Sergio.
: Kirby v. Strange Gecko-Moose Creature.
: Status, 14jun2021 Good morning; it’s currently 67°F under sunny skies. Next SOCIALIZED RECLUSE intro and …
: Reviewed: THE SILENCE, by Don DeLillo Sparse and spare - a DeLillo primer: a worthwhile taste - in spite of the off-putting typography …
: Set up TweetDelete to automatically delete tweets older than 30 days every few days. This space is …
: Status, 13jun2021 Storm clouds gathered and passed - but at least it delayed the sunrise a bit. I’m nothing if …
: PSA from someone finally feeling human: never underestimate the importance of drinking enough water. …
: Status, 12jun2021 Yes, I decided to do these again because I like to and they’re called Status because …
: EarBliss, 11jun2021: VARIATIONS ON A MELANCHOLY THEME, by Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber …
: Kirby’s last puppy vet appointment: all shots complete, 40 pounds (+13 since last time) and …
: EarBliss, 10jun2021: AETHER ALEATORICA, by Modelbau.
: On live progress mesmerism and other thoughtspace particulars Spent much of yesterday afternoon hypnotized by the live progress bar as TweetDelete did its thing. …
: Fantastic time last night chatting all things Ann Dvorak, Jane Russell, GNR, My Little Pony, and …
: New, on THE GROUND LOOP: early morning experiments, story and form, getting out of my own way …
: You know you have a (very large) puppy when the majority of your workspace design decisions revolve …
: Went out, bought potting soil: that’s enough excitement for one day.
: Beginning the tweetdelete process. Massive spring cleaning, about eight years past due.
: Being an abject lesson in delayed causality (Did I use the words correctly? I think so but if I didn’t to hell with it; I like the way they …
: Someone helped in the garden today.
: Ancient wisdom dictates that, when the highlighted and annotated ARC of your interview guest …
: The week ahead Note to self: ye must always do evening yoga, lest ye wake sounding like a bowl of rice krispies. …
: MARE OF / ANNOTATED DRACULA Haven’t been this jealous of someone else’s writing in a long time. Pure brilliance. Not only …
: I really hate fireworks And ‘tis, apparently, the season (like Christmas, it seems to arrive earlier with each year): …
: Negotiations are at an impasse.
: Meanwhile, 04jun2021 Still working on a naming scheme for these morning, day inaugurating / concluding meanderings. I …
: Kirby at +/- eight weeks old, and today, at 16 weeks old.
: The reign of the hosta overlords has begun.
: SitRep, 03jun2021 Put entirely too much thought into what I wanted this space to be only to - after finally releasing …
: Just hit send on the first subscriber-exclusive short story. This one really terrified me. Which …
: Survival, spite, neighbor dogs, and more in this week’s attempt to answer a frequently asked …
: New GROUND LOOP episode inbound…
: Shorn Morkie + Shorn Jorkie + Comics + Grogu
: Main reason for not taking a summer GROUND LOOP hiatus (other than I enjoy doing the show)? When I …
: SitRep, 01jun2021 I don’t hate the short story yet - nor have I had the inclination to “change things” …
: This being the morning that the 40lb German Shepherd puppy decided to wake his older, 13lb Jorkie …
: Quoted: Rainer Maria Rilke “Above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night, ‘Must I write?’ Dig …
: Update: the seven-year paragraph is finished. Releasing to NL subscribers later this week (so I …
: SitRep, 31may2021 Writing these now in this post-Write1, cup of coffee the second interregnum: when the second cup is …
: In which my mother’s cat meets Kirby for the first time.
: Of Two Memo Pad Holders It’s taken a long time – too long, probably – to find my note-taking method, but I’ve …
: Never underestimate the value of a “kind things people have said about your work” folder.
: Memorial Day weekend and the furnace is on. Not sure if there’s anything else to be said about that.
: Watching: PORT OF CALL (1948), dir. Ingmar Bergman.
: Posting Change / Route Change Love my morning posting routine but it needs to change: hate rushing about, especially when …
: EarBliss, 29may2021: VULTURE PRINCE, by Arooj Aftab.
: Bear Testing Into the Void Early morning (0400 instead of my usual 0430) wake up call thanks to a certain large and growing …
: EarBliss, 28may2021: OUTSIDE CHILD, by Allison Russell.
: Giving Bear a try for the first time. Think I like it.
: Links, 28may2021 The future of concerts is hybrid, via Axios. Elizabeth Holmes’ lawyers want to know how often jurors …
: Gave this little unweeded garden of thoughtspace a bit of new cover art / logo / whatever over at …
: Update to the morning's update The update to the update being: as Squarespace’s iOS app has become even more nightmarish and …
: German Shepherd puppy-assisted yoga is… a challenge.
: ICYMI: featuring new music from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and new words from me, RE/EMERGENCE0003 is now …
: Raining Jorkies / Update: Informality 0001 Raining this morning and for the next few days: Jorkie in full refusal to go outside and get wet …
: Added a new Stories section to Parenthetical Recluse. Aiming for the first one to arrive, …
: Micro-sages: is there a way to include a link to my newsletter sign-up in the nav (About / Archive / …
: From the Vacuum Thinking back, thinking through to how I came out of a similar situation years back, and it was - to …
: I’ve dealt with chronic depression for years. And right now - for the last several months, …
: In what should probably be considered a sign, I was at my most relaxed in months sitting in a …
: Pretty sure that Kirby grew while I was away on the day’s run.
: New: featuring new music from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and new words+ from me, RE/EMERGENCE0003 has – …
: One decision has been made: THE GROUND LOOP will go on a summer hiatus. Too many plates: I’m …
: The Unwound Weedeater: A Tragicomedy In (many pieces and) Parts.
: Quickly becoming one of those work-weeks where “What’s the point?” is on a loop.
: AirTags for my cup of coffee please.
: The youngest dog-child is in full-tilt Kirby Derby mode.
: Still very much a work in progress, but the Parenthetical Recluse homepage overhaul is getting …
: Cue summer rethink of how I use this space, etc etc.
: In which Kirby learns that he can no longer fit under the couch.
: EarBliss, 23may2021: BLACK TO THE FUTURE, by Sons of Kemet.
: Newsletter is done and sent; the month ends, the month begins.
: Inbound in +/-90: Dog years, learning to nap, Proof of Existence, a SOCIALIZED RECLUSE guest …
: Sometimes a story is just waiting for the right form. (It only took seven years, but…)
: Recent text correspondents: my apologies that the extent of my replies has been 👍 or 😎 or a clever, …
: Arriving Sunday morning: MacroParentheticals subscribers get early access to RE/EMERGENCE0003, the …
: Afternoon work attempt proved a potent reminder of why I don’t work in the afternoons. Duly …
: Important update: I’ve found my missing shoe.
: EarBliss, 19may2021: LOGUE, by KMRU.
: Think I’ve finally got my Status page the way I want it - for the time being…
: Research via revisitation / revisitation via research is awesome.
: This week’s attempt at answering a frequently-asked question that I’ve never been asked: …
: Spent the morning with the short stories / ideas folder and managed to get at least one of them to …
: Incoming: featuring new music from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and new words from myself, re/emergence0003 …
: The BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT animated adaptation is really good. Well worth a watch.
: Links, 17may2021 Man charged with wife’s murder illegally cast her ballot for Trump, officials say: ‘I just thought, …
: Relief that Kirby is willing to treat my mid-afternoon, half-zombified “soccer” (read: …
: Halfway through Kim Stanley Robinson’s THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE and I’m hooked: …
: After almost a week together, I’m loving the new watch: proving, so far at least, up to the …
: New: weekly Informalities make their parenthetical homecoming with 0001 - Returning Forward, on …
: Links, 15may2021 Unexpected Green Hornet Covers From Michael Kaluta Up For Auction, via Bleeding Cool. Japanese …
: ‘Morning - Jurassic Park is now open.
: (Recording this truth here as a reminder to myself when I hate it in three days): first morning with …
: Encore: this week’s attempt at answering a frequently asked question I’ve never been asked: …
: News, Etc: What with this being my final daily Informality A week of change continues and ends and it’s time to wrap up this daily series once again. Too …
: Kirby’s vet checkup: he’s more than doubled in weight (13 to 27 pounds) since last month and is in …
: Unpluggings, Cemeteries, Etc The new watch - a Casio G-Shock GA700-1B XL (requisitely - and exquisitely - puppy-proof) - has …
: With a third one coming hopefully this year, I’ve added a Books page to Parenthetical Recluse …
: New: in this week’s episode of THE GROUND LOOP, I answer another frequently asked question …
: Puppy teeth, man - puppy teeth (recitation 13,584).
: Just received stunning new music from EJK: re/emergence0003 is on its way. Follow the link for more …
: EarBliss, 11may2021: JESUP WAGON, by James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quartet.
: On Afternoons Writing this with a Jorkie on my lap and thinking - more than I should, probably - about my …
: Kirby’s big-dog collar has arrived. Still a ways off from wearing it (maybe), but we couldn’t …
: EarBliss, 10may2021: C.M.S.O. (Learning by Listening Vol. 1), by Orca, Attack!
: On GEARS / On TENET, with blips Finished the third game in the GEARS OF WAR series, the first trilogy of the saga: tears, as per …
: Proof of Existence, 03-08may2021 Trying to wrap my hands around flam rudiments. They were bastards in my previous percussive life and …
: Used a phrase I never thought I’d use: “You were bitten in the face. That means you back …
: We have entered the teething phase... …farewell: puppy teeth, table legs, slippers, shoes, pedals, writing desks, desk desks, …
: Links, 07may2021 Archaeologists Have Identified the Only Known Example of a Pregnant Mummy, via artnet. Red-Eyed …
: Replenishing a Mind Numbed, Kinda Rather intelligently, I think, composing this after the dog-children eat in a flurry of …
: Encore: This week, on THE GROUND LOOP: “What haven’t you tackled, creatively, that …
: Kirby was just referred to as “violently adorable” and that might be my favorite …
: Never underestimate the clarifying powers of a perpetually-updated current projects list.
: Wrist-Cyborg Fadeth / Tech Updates Dear Apple Watch, I tried. But, Series 3, you’re just not what I need right now, not in the …
: It was an eventful (and pleasant) evening and, alas, climbing all the way onto the couch for a sleep …
: New: THE GROUND LOOP, my weekly mini-pod thing where I answer a frequently asked question that …
: And, in an instant, the day became a joke.
: Deep in conversation with my youngest kid.
: Cereal / First Thunder / Intuitive Creative Permission Endo appointment was a typical one, a case study in the fine line one must walk between sacrificing …
: On the bright side, this beauty arrived today.
: Misplaced Confidence / Endo-bound Working to mentally shift my text+sharing to this morning post, as opposed to throughout the day …
: Though I always say that I can’t tell if a writing day was a good one until the next, …
: Proof of Existence, 26apr-01may2021 A Kirby snores at my feet and these are the week’s spaces of existence. On DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE …
: First it inspired me to order a collection of Chekhov’s short stories, and now Gogol’s: …
: Wrist-Cyborg Returneth (and Other Adventures) For a bit, for a spell, forever, IDK. Handy with puppy reminders (FEED), timers (WORKDAMNYOU), and …
: Update: I can report that my love for my Lamy CP1 has only grown throughout our first week together. …
: Rebuilding, Ad Inifinitum Thinking this morning of my time in music school, particularly of when and why I left. The why is …
: ICYMI: award-winning journalist & novelist Wallace Stroby joined me this week on THE SOCIALIZED …
: The battle was long and neither prevailed.
: Links, 29apr2021 Honkaku: a century of the Japanese whodunnits keeping readers guessing, via The Guardian. Download …
: The Day After, Podmonth Edition Writing this (and these) in the midst of indoor, post-breakfast puppy play time, before morning …
: A new puppy, two Ground Loop episodes (plus its launch), two Socialized Recluse episodes, the return …
: NEW: Novelist and award-winning journalist Wallace Stroby joins me on THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE to …
: In other news, Kirby just got frustrated enough with his new puzzle toy that he picked it up and …
: When I’ve re-organized things so well that I can’t find what I’m looking for.
: The temporal disturbance caused by not knowing if the barking dog is in your headphones from last …
: RED DESERT / CP1 Paces / Time Took almost two months - not a knock on the quality at all, but on my time - but I finished …
: Links, 26apr2021 A New Timelapse Tool Reveals How Much Humans Have Altered Earth’s Landscape Since 1984, via …
: My baby bear is growing up quickly.
: If my obituary doesn’t contain the sentence “His last words were, ‘Good …
: Hello, Lamy CP1. I think I love you already. Update: I’ve swapped out the nib that came with …
: On DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE (Spoilers, probably) Finally decided it was time to say goodbye to the denizens of DEADWOOD, nearly six months after …
: I can’t help but admire Kirby’s sisters’ strategy: get him to chase them upstairs, then run back …
: Cue surge of relief that my neighbor’s riding lawnmower didn’t ruin the last 15 minutes of this …
: I am inordinately excited about the impending arrival of a new fountain pen.
: Cue post-newsletter release haze/daze.
: Newsletter Sunday / Proof of Existence, 19-24apr2021 The week that was, the return of Daily (Micro)Informalities: Leave it / Click (19apr2021). Outgrown …
: April’s installment of my MacroParentheticals newsletter lands in inboxes tomorrow morning - …
: Modifying Time(blocks) While I don’t always agree with what Cal Newport thinks - for instance, I take issue with his …
: That particular flavor of joy when your puppy climbs the stairs - unprompted - for the first time, …
: Intense mid-day conversations.
: FWIW, I’ve added the RSS feeds to both THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE and THE GROUND LOOP pod pages …
: Writing space / Sanctum, currently.
: Of Deadlines and the Saving Grace of Puppy Puzzle Toys Mostly peaceful morning with the new feeding routine, mostly; not without hiccups (literally and …
: ENCORE: Elizabeth Joan Kelly joined me this week on THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE to discuss the latest …
: “You will fill bowl with food yes.”
: Latest additions to the endless unread stack(s).
: Returning to the Depths, Mostly Though my perturbation over the four inches of April snow and cold is undeniable, I can’t deny …
: Links, 21apr21 How spooks are turning to superforecasting in the Cosmic Bazaar, via The Economist. ‘Peaky Blinders’ …
: I can tell that my writing / reading routine has been out of whack for a few days: my “fit for …
: Update: we have climbed the stairs.
: Thought about an Informality this morning, but it’s not going to happen. Will stick with Weds …
: NEW: Elizabeth Joan Kelly joins me on Ep0003 of THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE to discuss band name …
: Fantastic to chat with Wallace Stroby this evening about his work and his latest, the must-read …
: Accountability is a beautiful thing.
: We learned how to go down the stairs today. Up, not so much. But down? We’ve got that covered.
: The peacetime of reading time.
: Up to four inches of snow forecast for tonight. Springtime in Ohio has sprung.
: Outgrown Collars / Focus Kirby has outgrown his first collar; tried Marley’s (RIP, buddy) collar, but it was too large, yet. …
: The next episode of my interview pod, The Socialized Recluse, featuring a conversation with friend, …
: Fortunately, both Kirby and I are worn out so when I sit down to record the podcast intro and outro …
: Very well, insanely busy week: let us begin.
: Leave it / Click Though the balance ball is in the midst of deflation, having been felled by puppy teeth, efforts to …
: SitRep, 18apr2021 A puppy-tantrum last night; we are at that stage, it would seem. Responding well, though, to being …
: The “I will make it through all of these before taking my last breath” stack.
: New puzzle toy for Kirby just arrived and he’s already figured it out. The race to stay ahead …
: SitRep, 17apr2021 First full night of sleep in 10 days. Not a peep from Kirby, the baby bear dog-child. Yay. More …
: Links, 16apr2021 What happened to the Salvator Mundi?, via The Economist. How Some COVID-19 Vaccines Could Cause Rare …
: Emptied my pockets of the forbidden treasures rescued from Kirby’s mouth: the quantity and …
: EarbBliss, 16apr2021: FIGURES IN OPEN AIR, by Sarah Davachi.
: SitRep, 16apr2021 Vet trip a success, Kirby being deemed a perfectly healthy puppy / see you in four weeks. Office / …
: Encore: Ep0002 of my weekly mini-pod, The Ground Loop, in which I attempt to answer frequently asked …
: Kirby’s first vet appointment: perfectly healthy pup, “see you in four weeks.”
: SitRep, 15apr2021 The basement drain is unclogged; writing hours have been met; Kirby slept through the night: all is …
: Puppy teeth, man. Puppy teeth.
: New, at Parenthetical Recluse: my weekly pod where I answer frequently asked questions that I’ve …
: SitRep, 14apr2021 In a bit of a hurry this morning, a doctor’s appointment transport in thirty, give or take. …
: Ear one has popped… (Update: nevermind.)
: A modicum of relief ensues as I find that I don’t sound quite as exhausted and nonsensical in …
: I love Kirby’s puppy stage but I’m excited for when we exit the “put everything in …
: Beginning to suspect that the piece of shit who dumped Izzy in front of me on my run four years ago …
: Links, 13apr2021 (Clearing out a backlog edition…) A 4,000-Year-Old Student ‘Writing Board’ from Ancient Egypt …
: SitRep, 13apr2021 Midnight howling and whining continues but we’re getting used to Kirby’s howler-monkey …
: If you’d like a Kirby update, he’s doing fine. So fine, in fact, that he decided that the water bowl …
: No new GROUND LOOP episode this week: two SOCIALIZED RECLUSE interviews plus new dog plus random …
: SitRep, 12apr2021 Continued dismay as all of my routines have fallen apart but recognition that they are doing so …
: Kirby whined and howled the whole way to my mother’s house and, in so doing, gave voice to the last …
: SitRep, 11apr2021 After-breakfast playtime. Dragon and squeaky pig and red tiger v. Kirby; Dawn of Kirb Appeal. First …
: A rest with his friend at the end of a long day.
: SitRep, 10april2021 Kirby is officially eight weeks old. To celebrate, he had a banner morning of full-tilt puppy: …
: I don’t have much experience with this feeling, but in the couple of days that Kirby’s …
: New dog-child status update: While The Morkie and Kirby are bonding, an intense study of Cold …
: Update: Finished Wallace Stroby’s HEAVEN’S A LIE: a taut, relentless yarn bursting with …
: SitRep, 09apr2021 Better night than last night: at least I slept and, when awakened by Kirby’s cry-piss whines, …
: Links, 08apr2021 New unit launched at Interior to investigate cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people, via …
: EarBliss, 08apr2021: THE ONE AND THE OTHER, by Lara Solnicki.
: It has arrived and it is beautiful.
: SitRep, 08apr2021 First night with Kirby is done; like I said a little bit ago, I may have slept two hours, but …
: I may have slept two hours, but Kirby’s doing just fine on his first morning.
: To steal from DC, circa 1971, KIRBY IS HERE! Introducing Kirby, the newest addition to our …
: SitRep, 07apr2021 And today’s the day… Not only for the debut of The Ground Loop – in which I attempt to …
: I kinda love that this is what my Twitter profile timeline looks like right now…
: New, at Parenthetical Recluse: debuting my weekly mini-podcast, The Ground Loop, in which I attempt …
: Picking up The Morkie and The Jorkie from their haircuts in an hour; the quiet has been eerie. …
: SitRep, 06apr2021 Quiet this morning… too quiet: The Morkie and The Jorkie are at the groomers, having the shag …
: First episode of new mini-pod recorded (FWIW, this was my first time working with a condenser mic; I …
: In which a morning delivery makes for a grand start to the week.
: SitRep, 05apr2021 Happy Monday: Easter has been endured; carb and small talk quota is more than filled. Here I am. …
: Sunday, or, that afternoon in which one tries to sneak past as another attempts something really …
: New, at Parenthetical Recluse: The Informalities return with “Notes on Efforts to Extract My …
: SitRep, 04apr2021 Toyed with the idea of not doing this today – since I’m releasing a 1,000+-word …
: My egg-hiding skills may not be spectacular, but my accidental-throwing aim is brilliant.
: SitRep, 03apr2021 The text has come: balance will be restored this week. Spent much of yesterday binging Apple …
: Links, 02apr2021 Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588), via The Public Domain Review. Emergent plant that …
: Total assembly required, day one.
: My once back-from-the-dead Lamy 2000 is starting its slide backwards, so I’m using the Safari …
: SitRep, 02apr2021 GODZILLA VS. KONG still in progress: had to give up last night as HBO Max was more than a bit …
: Just a little April snow squall.
: Assembling IKEA shelf. If you hear more profanity than normal it’s just me.
: Donning the winter running garb: welcome, April in Ohio.
: SitRep, 01apr2021 O-hai-O, April: snow and Fern the Furnace kicking on, wheezing, “more of this shit, …
: Links, 31mar2021 For years, a mafia fugitive hid from police. Then they spotted his Italian cooking videos on …
: Gardening table, still somewhat in progress, but at least it’s in its home.
: Now reading, from the the unknown stacks…
: Personal ecosystem vaccination update: grandfathers, in-laws, wife, mother, and self all fully …
: When you accept writing lesson payment in Ikea shelving in lieu of cash, you know you’ve …
: SitRep, 31mar2021 A strange relationship with rainy mornings: I love them because it means I get to work in the …
: Links, 30mar2021 ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Motel Now On Sale For $1.6M – But There’s A Catch, via Deadline. 100,000 Cherry …
: Gardening table, in progress.
: The time has come to retire my little MacBook Air after 10 years, two books, and countless stories …
: In the absence of proper cutting tools, I gave my battery-powered chainsaw its first gig: cutting …
: Finally have my Status page the way I want it (for the moment): Latest, InProgress, Inputs, and …
: SitRep, 30mar2021 And here I am writing these again. Think I like the simplicity of it, the grab-bag nature of this …
: Status, 29mar2021 - updated with upcoming release dates for (almost) everything - including the …
: Think I’ve finally got this posting workflow / embassies thing figured out for the 55,034th …
: Running partner turkey update: standing tall and lording again over his driveway of the broken-down …
: Newsletter Sunday / Proof of Existence, 22-27mar2021 The latest MacroParentheticals dispatch, the first of the monthly NL iterations, is on its way to …
: Links, 27mar2021 Essential new long-form piece from Abbott Kahler: How Sara Gruen Lost Her Life, via Vulture. Nick …
: Today’s main accomplishment: the dry erase board is now bolted to the wall. (Trust me, the …
: EarBliss, 27mar2021: LA OLA INTERIOR, Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990.
: Very well, left-handed single paradiddle-diddle, I see you’re going to be as much the bane of …
: High wind warning update: the warning has expired, the trees weren’t deserving of my …
: Finally added a projects page to Parenthetical Recluse. The nip/tuck continues, ad infinitum. (Good …
: An overnight high wind warning so I’ll probably spend the afternoon staring at trees with …
: The pegboard is installed; my mother’s Christmas wreaths have a home. The balance of the …
: The season of siren testing and dog-children sing-alongs is upon us.
: On Deletion Practices For most of what passes for my pretend writing career, I’ve printed out everything that I …
: Links, 23mar2021 Of Trees, Tenderness, and the Moon: Hasui Kawase’s Stunning Japanese Woodblock Prints from the …
: The Morkie Queen atop her throne. (None are worthy.)
: It’s kind of amazing to see how much the floors really need vacuumed when I wear my glasses in …
: Running partner turkey update: standing tall alongside a broken-down Honda, he gazed through me and …
: SitRep, 23mar2021 Good morning – it’s currently 44ºF under sunny skies and I’m drawing something of a …
: Links, 22mar2021 How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Inspired the Creepy Suspense of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, via …
: The daily completion of small tasks on large projects - books, podcasts, door repairs, pond …
: On Evolving Inspirations While “inspiration” would, at first glance, connote a positive spin, reality dictates …
: On ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE (With the stipulation that more might emerge as I process it over the next few days…) First …
: MARIO KART niece/uncle battle report: tied a race; tied the “outrun the law” or whatever; and had my …
: Suspicion that I’m one of the “long-covid” types is growing: my blood sugar …
: Very much a work-in-progress, but I’ve added a Status page to the primary brain-garden.
: This Space Between Read somewhere here, probably about the day or so after I’d taken a pause in my 20-year+ …
: News: today (20mar2021), at 1PM CST, you can check out the first two installments of re/emergence on …
: Encore: re/emergence0002, the latest music + microfiction collab from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and …
: On Razor-Thin Crickets Want to expand on something I said few days ago: “I’ve been putting things I love to create …
: Links, 18mar2021 Miniature Origami Cranes Take Flight in Sculptures by Naoki Onogawa, via Spoon & Tamago. …
: Personal ecosystem vaccination status: as of today, both grandfathers, both in-laws, myself, and my …
: EarBliss, 18mar2021: DOKU-EN-KAI, by toe.
: Finally made the shift to turn my main site into a static-ish home for new projects and etc …
: SitRep, 18mar2021 Good morning; it’s currently 46ºF under rainy skies and thus, The Jorkie refuses to go …
: The HARLEY QUINN animated series might be my favorite thing right now.
: I’ve been putting things I love to create into the world for more than half my life and the …
: Side effect status update: humanity continues, batshit blood sugar has returned to normal. All is …
: EarBliss, 17mar2021: TEN TIMES THE WORLD LIED, by bvdub.
: New, by we: re/emergence0002, the latest release from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and myself, is now …
: Links, 16mar2021 Israeli archaeologists discover new Dead Sea Scrolls for first time in 60 years, via The Washington …
: In which The Morkie continues to come out of the morning’s anesthesia.
: Side effect status update: overall humanity remains restored, though blood sugar remains batshit …
: I’m always amazed by my dogs' talent in waiting until the exact moment I sit down and let …
: Links, 15mar2021 The filibuster is an oddity that harms American democracy, via The Economist. Darwyn Cooke’s …
: Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS remains, as it has since I first saw it, my favorite film of last …
: Side effect update: humanity fully restored.
: Side effect update: feeling remarkably better, 70% human. Fingers crossed that I’m on the …
: Why, hello, side effects. I see we’re going for the “muscles feeling like how a metal …
: Watching: RED DESERT (1964), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni.
: Vaccine received. Palpable sense of relief = significant.
: Links, 12mar2021 What is an NFT, and how did an artist called Beeple sell one for $69 million at Christie’s?, via The …
: SitRep, 12mar2021 The morning of (early access): re/emergence0002 is now available for newsletter subscribers; next …
: Links, 11mar2021 Panda Express staff forced to strip at team-building seminar that seemed like ‘a cult initiation …
: In other news, I revealed my dark secret to my wife: I can’t skip. My working theory is that …
: Smartest move I’ve made this week (probably the only one) was to move my second workblock back …
: EarBliss, 11mar2021: KVAL, by Henrik Meierkord.
: SitRep, 11mar2021 Waiting, as usual, for The Morkie to decide that she’s ready to come inside; this, after …
: Running partner turkey update: he was having a rest in a driveway, basking in the sun, watching cars …
: SitRep, 10mar2021 Vaccine appointment scheduled. Had the choice between the Moderna two-dose starting this afternoon …
: Links, 09mar2021 A Van Gogh Painting Has Been Unveiled for the First Time Since It Was Painted in 1887, via Colossal. …
: Vaccine (single dose J&J) appointment: scheduled.
: SitRep, 09mar2021 Wrapped up Rian Hughes’s XX yesterday: still formulating deeper thoughts, not sure if …
: When you clean out your car and learn that you have to go to the dentist in two weeks.
: SitRep, 08mar2021 Mucking about a bit with when I write these. Think I’ll settle on when the day’s work is …
: Links, 07mar2021 Tim Wu, the ‘father of net neutrality,’ is joining the Biden administration, via The Verge. Zack …
: (Filed under better late than never / fixing comics reading sin): finally reading this.
: (Welcome back, Micro. I missed you.)
: SitRep, 07mar2021 Good morning: it’s currently 21ºF under sunny skies and this is my first Sunday in ages …
: Running partner turkey, a fleeting glance, Loch Ness Turkey-style.
: SitRep, 06mar2021 Good morning: it’s currently 25ºF under sunny skies and Micro.blog seems to be having …
: Just a test, nothing to see here, just a test…
: Brushed a Morkie. Have all ten fingers. Success.
: In the coming weeks, I’ll be adding short reviews, progress updates (on books, etc) and more, …
: EarBliss, 05mar2021: CEDARS, by Field Works.
: SitRep, 05mar2021 Good morning: it’s currently 20ºF under sunny skies and re/emergence0001 is in the vault; …
: Incoming: re/emergence0002 arrives on Wednesday, 17mar2021. Sign up for early access to this and all …
: Current personal eco-system covid vaccine status: in-laws have had both shots, no negative reaction; …
: SitRep, 04mar2021 Good morning; it’s currently 33ºF under cloudy skies and, as of today, I can get my covid-jab. Put …
: Links, 03mar2021 Take a Deep Dive Into the Mysteries of Rian Hughes’s Massive New Alien Thriller Novel, XX, via …
: Hark, for these sounds of gunfire, chainsaws, and obnoxious trucks tearing down the highway signal …
: SitRep update: went with all morning. Apparently these rambles are becoming part of my “return …
: SitRep, 03mar2021 Good morning; it’s currently 30ºF under sunny skies and, according to USPS, my “package …
: Links, 02mar2021 The Two Obscure YAKUZA Titles America Never Got, via CBR. Health orgs. backed Ohio’s pandemic …
: News: On the Monthly+ Iteration of My Newsletter from last weekend’s MacroParentheticals0042: With a number of new creative things coming out, …
: SitRep, 02mar2021 Now that I’ve finally settled on a title/category, I guess I do like doing these. Especially …
: Feels like it’s been that long.
: Today was my first day in the rearranged office: having a standing desk again was wonderful. …
: SitRep, 01mar2021 No idea if this is something that I want to do again (for the first time, here), but here I am with …
: EarBliss, 01mar2021: CARNAGE, by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
: I can’t remember the last time sending a newsletter felt like such a relief. And, exhale.
: Links, 27feb2021 Unprecedented numbers of students have disappeared during the pandemic. Schools are working harder …
: Watching: A SHIP TO INDIA (1947), dir. Ingmar Bergman.
: Office / Sanctum reorientation complete: added a standing + podcast recording + MARIO KART training …
: Last call: re/emergence0001 will vanish on Friday, 05mar2021.
: Rewatched “Heart of Ice” last night: still one of the best 22 minutes of television ever …
: Saturday plan: once I return from the day’s run, I’ll hang a white board, finish up office …
: First comic book I ever bought. Well-loved and scotch-taped.
: EarBliss, 27feb2021: HALLGATÓ (LIVE), by Ferenc Snétberger & Keller Quartett.
: Another day in the life of an omelette otaku begins. With an omelette.
: Personal ecosystem vaccination status: in-laws plus both grandfathers are fully jabbed; my wife had …
: Efforts at self-preservation via resignation continue in fits and starts.
: EarBliss, 25feb2021: IN CONVERGENCE LIBERATION, by Hafez Modirzadeh.
: Links, 24feb2021 Filippo Morghen’s Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776), via The Public Domain Review. …
: Never underestimate the ability of a phone call with a great friend to untangle creative …
: Hi, Wednesday - I see you’re already taking great strides to be “one of those …
: Watching: DISHONORED (1931), dir. Josef von Sternberg.
: One of the few constants in comics history is that 99.98% of DC’s efforts to “fix” …
: Stopped wearing my Apple Watch and it’s remarkably pleasant to neither know the time nor …
: Links, 22feb2021 Steinbeck’s Productive Inactivity, via Cal Newport. Endangered jazz history faces greater risk with …
: Late afternoon arc: Me, ebullient: “Finally! Time for video games.” // Xbox: …
: EarBliss, 22feb2021: QUIET EARTH, by Muriel Grossmann.
: The Parenthetical Trinity switchover continues: just moved my complete reading list (current back …
: The first issue of SNOW ANGELS, the new Comixology Original series from Jeff Lemire and Jock, was …
: Thanks to finally seeing the flickering brain-lightbulb, an unplanned day of figuring shit out will …
: Links, 20feb2021 Tokyo’s Kadokawa Culture Museum Houses an Arresting Kengo Kuma-Designed Bookshelf Theater, via …
: This, from an artist whose music I adore, about re/emergence0001, just made my week.
: Watching: THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948), dir. Nicholas Ray.
: I’ve been playing so much YAKUZA 0 lately that the day’s run around town seems lacking …
: An afternoon with the sandpaper and the olive oil: yes, it’s time again for my favorite winter …
: I didn’t accidentally dial 911 from my watch this morning so today’s already an …
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… re/emergence0001, the first in a series of short fiction …
: Project News and Such Reprinted from Sunday’s MacroParentheticals0040: While I’m very much in the inchoate stages of …
: here we are now entertain us…
: I suspect that someone at the local health department is having a really shitty afternoon.
: Watched Minnelli’s THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL for the first time (a glaring oversight in my …
: The latest MacroParentheticals is on its way to inboxes: re/emergence0001, the first in an ongoing …
: A few more words While the loss of our best good boy will hurt for some time, we are keeping – as we have with each …
: Thank you all for your kind words and support today. 🙏
: Sleep well, my best good boy. Having had you in my life will always be among its brightest lights.
: Hitchcock remake in the backyard.
: EarBliss, 12feb2021: THREE LITTLE WORDS, by Dominique Fils-Aimé.
: In keeping with my mutant ability to always be late to the party, I’ve switched to NetNewsWire …
: “He invites you to visit. He will even show you in. But do not expect him to make you feel at …
: Encore: In Of Candles Lit / Of Fuses Sought, I considered the ramifications of my throwing out of …
: Links, 10feb2021 Water-Supply Hack Should Be a Wake-Up Call, Experts Say, via Defense One. Zoom filter traps this …
: Notebook switch day: in which the process of transforming this Lochby Field Journal + Rhodia A5 …
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Candles Lit / Of Fuses Sought.
: EarBliss, 09feb2021: MARIMBA CRYSTAL, by Nanae Mimura.
: Links, 08feb2021 Democrats seek a reset button in Ohio, via Politico. They’re certainly going to try: Twitter …
: Leonard Cohen once said that “(Writing) begins with an appetite to discover my self-respect. …
: Being a longtime fan of UsesThis, I’ve thought (too much) about my dream setup. Only addition …
: EarBliss, 08feb2021: SCENES FROM A GHOST TRAIN, by Forrest Fang.
: Relief via Health Dept. text: “You are registered to receive a Coronavirus vaccine.”
: The first of installment of re/emergence, an ongoing series of short fiction / music collaborations …
: Newsletter update, already: my in-laws' cat has returned home.
: Issue 0039 of MacroParentheticals is on its inbox-journey. The week ends/the week begins.
: As per normal after our writing lessons, my niece decimated me in Mario Kart. While the lifelong …
: Links, 05feb2021 The schools of the future can be built in less than a week, via Fast Company. Pipe bombs found near …
: Encore: my SOCIALIZED RECLUSE podcast returned this week with my chat with Alison Gaylin about …
: When you decide to say to hell with it, throw seven years of work into the file cabinet, push …
: EarBliss, 04feb2021: TO YELLOWKNIFE ~ CHAPTER 01 and ~ CHAPTER 02, by Mending.
: Haven’t picked up a pair of drumsticks in 20 years (I went to music school, a percussion performance …
: Considering a return to daily posting starting next week. Only thing giving me pause is that, while …
: Update: the once-dead pen is still alive and functioning as well as it did before its untimely drop.
: I don’t want to celebrate without further testing, but I may have brought my Lamy 2000 back …
: Ye olde post-launch haze/daze.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE pod returns with my interview …
: Links, 02feb2021 (Been awhile.) A right pane: Thomas Becket’s miraculous mix-up, via The Economist. Wisconsin …
: Confession: when I get stuck in The Work, I turn to paint-by-sticker coloring books. A horse, in …
: It’s been almost a year, but I still have to remind myself to avoid random profanities within …
: SitRep, 01feb2021 A much-needed week off from The Third Book - being that my brain is begging for some distance - to …
: The answer to the question of how many editions of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME I need to own is …
: Stay strong, little decade-old MacBook Air. The pod episode is almost done. We’ve been through …
: A blood sugar crash in the middle of the day’s run is one of the few times that T1D really …
: Brain, currently: book, pod, book pod, bookpod bookpodbookpod… need new refrigerator bulb.
: Fragmented Garments and Body Parts Drift Away From Steel Sculptures by Regardt Van Der Meulen, via …
: This is wonderful: ME WE, by Nick Sousanis.
: Watching: LA NOTTE (1961), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
: EarBliss, 27jan2021 (EarBliss every time I play it edition): ULTRAVIOLET, by Kelly Moran.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… A Week Later.
: Not the greatest shot, but it’s the only angle that let me fit in all of the Sanctum’s bookshelves.
: Groomed Jorkie (after David Lynch).
: That feeling when your collaborator sends you another cool thing a few days after the first cool …
: EarBliss, 26jan2021: VOICES FALL FROM THE SKY, by William Parker.
: Periodic restatement of personal request/demand for a remaster/remake of the original DEUS EX.
: I wouldn’t buy Rolling Stone for $2,000.
: Putting together tomorrow’s newsletter featuring a new project announcement, new podcast …
: EarBliss, 22jan2021: LONTANO, by Anja Lechner and François Couturier.
: A recognition that life in my slice of heartlandia can be described only as an ill-conceived spinoff …
: Watching: CRISIS (1946), dir. Ingmar Bergman.
: So that’s what it feels like to exhale.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Morning Of.
: Latest addition to the box-set collection / addiction.
: Many thanks, @jean, for having me on Micro Monday today. Glad to take part.
: Among other things, one of my main goals over the next year is to let myself take the time to …
: The Japanese Noir collection is live at the Criterion Channel and all is well.
: Because when all else fails, one is left with no choice but to buy the 30-film Universal Monsters …
: Putting together issue 0036 of MacroParentheticals, featuring running partner turkey updates, …
: Watching: TAKE AIM AT THE POLICE VAN (1960), dir. Seijun Suzuki.
: EarBliss, 16jan2021: MAQUISHTI, by Patricia Brennan.
: Links, 15jan2021 Magical Ice Bubbles Appear on the Surface of Lake Nukabira in Hokkaido, via Spoon & Tamago. …
: Wrote a reminder to buy more Post-Its on a Post-It.
: A hundred-foot jaunt with running partner turkey in the snow.
: An office is not a creative sanctuary without a cheaply framed, monochrome laser-printed photo of …
: Quoted: Nick Cave “One day, you will write a line that feels wrong, but at the same time provides you with a …
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse…Trust: Process/Self/Pterodactyl.
: A brief word on my Twitter break... …(if only for myself): I don’t hate Twitter, I see its value – I wouldn’t have a …
: Links, 12jan2021 Fifty years of Robert Caro’s reporting notes going public, via Nieman Storyboard “The man who …
: Links, 11jan2021 Incitement Timeline: Year of Trump’s Actions Leading to the Attack on the Capitol, via Just …
: My wife takes her Lego Super Mario very seriously.
: Greatest Batmobile build resumes: Bag 15.
: Links, 10jan2021 Before Mob Stormed the Capitol, Days of Security Planning Involved Cabinet Officials and President …
: Finally feel like I’ve hit the sweet spot as to the interaction between this blog, my main …
: Putting the finishing touches on this week’s MacroParentheticals dispatch: beware stray …
: Links, 09jan2020 A Pulsating Light Room of Multi-Layered Glass by Claudia Bueno to Premiere at Meow Wolf Las Vegas, …
: Watching: UGETSU (1953), dir. Kenji Mizoguchi.
: Addendum: Lego dump truck has duly joined his Lego semi in its place of honor on his office shelf.
: On the bright side of the week’s madness, my grandfather was - and remains - enthralled by his …
: Cross-posting disabled, Twitter sabbatical initiated: you’re stuck with me, Micro.
: Links, 08jan2020 Rumored LEGO Star Wars Death Star with 11,000 Pieces, via The Brick Fan. Meticulously Sculpted and …
: iA Writer’s highlight function has become essential to my working and thinking on-screen. …
: (Also) Reading - and it’s absolutely brilliant.
: Consider me on the bandwagon: COBRA KAI is excellent.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Form and THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT.
: Ohthankfuck (Senatorial edition); in Stacey Abrams we trust.
: Finished THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT last night and I’ll join the chorus: it’s absolutely …
: Links, 04jan2021 ‘Doctor Who’: BBC Refuses To Deny Report Jodie Whittaker Is Quitting, via Deadline. Spider-Man-style …
: Running partner turkey update: he has re-emerged, though I wasn’t interesting enough to make …
: EarBliss, 04jan2021: ALL THOUGHTS FLY, by Anna von Hausswolff.
: Links, 03jan2021 Robin Williams’s widow: ‘There were so many misunderstandings about what had happened to …
: My only real goal this year is to not nearly call emergency services every time I change my …
: It’s 2021: here’s The Morkie in an Ewok costume.
: … and the stuff of nightmares.
: Links, 01jan2021 Wisconsin health-care worker ‘intentionally’ spoiled more than 500 coronavirus vaccine doses, …
: Total Assembly Required Interlude Bag One: in which I commence the assembly of our Christmas gift to my 94-year-old grandfather. …
: Among my most unexpected — and now expensive (Happy Christmas to me from me) — media consumption …
: Just finished THE WORLD IN A GRAIN - Vince Beiser’s fascinating and must-read deep dive into …
: No “year-in-review” posts from me because I can barely remember a week.
: Links, 30dec2020 Vertical Dwellings Nestle into the Floating Miniature Landscapes of Rosa de Jong, via Colossal. LEGO …
: That strange feeling of accomplishment, exhalation, and slight panicked insecurity when you send …
: Monthly flea treatment / chase sequence complete. Ten seconds for Marley and The Morkie. Nine …
: EarBliss, 30dec2020: TIME OUTTAKES, by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… By Morning’s End.
: Links, 29dec2020 Hokusai’s Great Wave, Sculpted in Lego Blocks by Jumpei Mitsui, via Spoon & Tamago. Buttigieg to …
: As essential to my day as iA Writer is, a way to navigate to particular document sections / segments …
: Input of Note: THE GODFATHER CODA: THE DEATH OF MICHAEL CORLEONE Note: this is an edited/updated version of Sunday’s “Input of Note” selection from …
: Total Assembly Required, Greatest Batmobile Edition.
: That weird feeling when you plan on spending a week on something and finish it in a single morning.
: The only surprise in WW84 was how bored I was: other than a few inspired moments, a stunning …
: A Shatner-run through the snowdrifts.
: Issue 0033 of MacroParentheticals arrives later this morning: Godfather Coda, dog pictures, and …
: Links, 26dec2020 Comics Conveyed Public Health Storytelling During Pandemic, via Medscape. Erasmus’s teachings …
: Time to get myself a Switch so I can train for my next Mario Kart duel with my niece. This is war.
: My mother-in-law is awesome, Christmas edition.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Holly/Jolly/Pandemic/EtCetera.
: As I hacked away at a blameless cauliflower, I realized how much I’ve come to hate cooking and …
: Obligatory snowfall-in-progress shot.
: Christmas essentials. Also: The Madagascar Penguins Christmas Caper (not pictured, clearly).
: Still the only Christmas album I enjoy.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 24dec2020.
: Christmas has arrived early with the pre-dawn delivery of a new trash bin which pretty much defines …
: Groomed and unimpressed Morkie.
: Links, 23dec2020 Felony Streaming and CASE Act: What You Need to Know, via Copyright Lately. Bill attacking health …
: In other news, I’ve managed to unstick the front door just in time for its next …
: New glasses / I can see again.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Revisited: THE GODFATHER Trilogy (1/2).
: EarBliss, 22dec2020: SOMEWHERE DECENT TO LIVE, by Space Afrika.
: Spent most of the afternoon playing STREETS OF RAGE 4 and I stand by this decision.
: Thinking of moving away from digital subscriptions - Economist, etc. - via app on my fading iPad and …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes on Efforts to Reclaim These Culinary Loves.
: Links, 21dec2020 Peter Jackson Unveils Intimate First Footage From His Beatles Documentary. via Deadline. Long-Lost …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Why Yes I Do Like Thinking in This Space Again.
: Macro0032, featuring snow sagas and falling ducks (and their spaceships), is on its way to inboxes; …
: Watching: THE SILENCE (1963), dir. Ingmar Bergman.
: EarBliss, 19dec2020 (album of the year edition): AXIOM, by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On “Hurt” (with Grogu).
: First morning on a new side project and it fucking terrifies me (which tells me I’m doing the …
: We’ve reached the part of the day when The Jorkie and The Morkie issue little growls, one …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… In Remembrance of Omelet Realizations* Remembered.
: Links, 17dec2020 LEGO Roses (40460) & Tulips (40461) Set Details, via Brickfan. ‘Twitter killer’ who dismembered …
: EarBliss, 17dec2020: A DISTANT LOSS, by hakobune.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Gratitude v. Guilt.
: (Upon returning from the) Snow-Run.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Handwritten Piano.
: One to-read stack down, seven to go. They’re turned around so I have no idea what I’m choosing. Two …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Only one way to find out.
: Links, 14dec2020 Hijacking the electoral college: The plot to deny JFK the presidency 60 years ago, via The …
: New glasses: selected and ordered. Will remain blurry in my peeling anti-reflective haze until their …
: EarBliss, 14dec2020: FIFTEEN, by SPC ECO.
: One of my favorite minds and storytellers - RIP: John le Carré Dies: Author Of ‘Tinker Tailor …
: 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 …
: The morning battle of revolving door wills between myself on one side and The Morkie and The Jorkie …
: Links, 12dec2020 The Zodiac Killer sent a cipher 51 years ago. A team of amateur code-breakers just cracked it, via …
: 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.
: EarBliss, 11dec2020: THE FALL / DENNIS JOHNSON’S NOVEMBER DECONSTRUCTED, by Lustmord + Nicolas …
: Links, 10dec2020 Japan’s new Kit Kats are aged in whisky barrels in Scotland for 180 days, via Japan Forward. Don …
: My view for most of the afternoon. (New glasses + making sure the T1D hasn’t fried my eyes (It …
: 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 …
: It only took forever to click for me on a visceral level but: it’s amazing the amount of ideas …
: Regular restatement of the truth that my handwriting is shit and that I need to do better at making …
: EarBliss, 07dec2020: GARDEN, by Uncivilized.
: Finished GEARS OF WAR 2. On to 3, sooner rather than later. Hooked on this series - better late than …
: Good morning: the weekly newsletter, it has returned; MacroParentheticals 0030 is on its way into …
: It’d be much easier to find my glasses if I were wearing my glasses.
: Three Process Revelations from a Week of Figuring Shit Out 1.) I am incapable of working with any semblance of depth on more than one fiction project per day, …
: EarBliss, 05dec2020: FORCE MAJEURE, by Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger.
: And lo, the yards were filled with bits of dismembered snowmen.
: And now, a pause for shameless self-promotion brought to you by my one and only sponsor, me: after a …
: 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.
: Links, 04dec2020 Ohio coronavirus picture darkens rapidly, via Ohio Capital Journal. The Macabre and the …
: Update: the tree is assembled; I have Christmased.
: “To see complex systems of functional order as order, and not as chaos, takes …
: Izzy’s folly; a bad idea in progress.
: Links, 03dec2020 How Francis Ford Coppola Got Pulled Back In to Make ‘The Godfather, Coda', via The New York Times. …
: Sanctum / office post-expansion.
: Random evening thought: I miss writing for other people, for platforms other than ones I’ve …
: After numerous and creative profanities, the printer is connected to the new router and the …
: EarBliss, 02dec2020: FOGHORNIA, by Tapani Rinne.
: Links, 01dec2020 Ohio’s anti-vaxxers shift aim toward COVID-19 laws, via Ohio Capital Journal. Commenters are …
: Indeed it was the ten-year-old router causing those ten years of slow internet. Surprise surprise / …
: EarBliss, 01dec2020: HUNDREDS OF DAYS, by Mary Lattimore.
: No matter how tired I may get of winter, having mine be the first human tracks on the day’s …
: As was the case with its predecessor, I might be just a little hooked on the new UNSOLVED MYSTERIES.
: My newsletter, MacroParentheticals, returns in its monthly interation this Sunday. You can sign up …
: EarBliss, 30nov2020: L’INATTINGIBLE, by Delphine Dora.
: Links, 29nov2020 LEGO Ideas Wallace & Gromit Achieve 10,000 Supporters, via The Brick Fan. Mall Santas brave the …
: Looking to give my dosage of RSS reads some new life. Recommendations welcome.
: In which The Morkie steals Lambchop from The Jorkie and a battle of wills and intellect ensues.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Funereal Line Rides and Musical Metal Folding Chairs.
: Three things: wrote the morning’s essay by hand first and loved it (the process, illegible …
: EarBliss, 28nov2020: LAMENTATIONS, by William Basinski.
: EarBliss, 27nov2020: EULOGY FOR EVOLUTION, by Ólafur Arnalds.
: Today, Running Partner Turkey attempted his best Gandalf impression, standing in the middle of the …
: If you read Caro’s THE POWER BROKER (and you should), read Jacobs’s THE DEATH AND LIFE …
: My great aunt died yesterday. Apparently, her only regret in life was that she didn’t get to …
: Started Netflix’s FEAR CITY: NEW YORK VS. THE MAFIA - so far, a stylish and entertaining …
: Links, 24nov2020 Largest Fleischer Brothers Superman Auction Ever, This December, via Bleeding Cool. LEGO Botanical …
: EarBliss, 24nov2020: APPEARANCE, by Chris Abrahams.
: Running partner neighbor turkey update: our eyes met as I passed him, but he just looked on and …
: Gave the daily Informality return a go, but need to prioritize other, larger projects. Back to …
: Typical dinner scene in our home.
: EarBliss, 23nov2020: UNFOLD, by The Necks.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Unintentional Peter Lorre Week, Considered.
: Links, 22nov2020 Pompeii dig reveals ‘almost perfect’ remains of a master and his slave, via The Guardian. Elena …
: Little did I realize that my antipathy towards holidays and family gatherings would one day be a …
: Second week after the newsletter went monthly and it’s still strange to not send one. That …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Proof of Existence, 16-22nov2020.
: Nessie, the fallen tree limb.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Hark, the Exhaust(ed) Sounds of the Restless Roar.
: Watching: THE CHASE (1946), dir. Arthur Ripley.
: Warpless MARIO attempt, 20nov2020…
: EarBliss, 20nov2020: ASPERITIES, by Julia Kent.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Afternoon Work-Intentions Lost and Found.
: (Just trying out a new form of link posting; my daily, more or less, and massive Links post is …
: Links, 19nov2020 Opinion: New York Times ‘Disappears’ Rural America’s Covid Crisis, via The Daily Yonder. Wonder …
: EarBliss, 19nov2020: DHARMA, by Tarun Balani.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Curfew / DREAMLAND.
: EarBliss, 18nov2020: @ BREMEN 1964 & 1975, by Charles Mingus.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… This Fleeting Process of (Profane) Processing.
: Links, 17nov2020 It’s Time to Hunker Down, via The Atlantic. The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave, …
: Watching, 17nov2020: MAD LOVE (1935); dir. Karl Freund.
: Since Ohio’s content do the bare minimum for COVID-prevention and attempting to appeal to …
: Learning that once I reach the point of nearly giving up on a project, the words I’ve been …
: First snow-run of the season inbound.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Upon a (Daily) Return, Again.
: EarBliss, 17nov2020: ANNUMINAS, by Arctica.
: Quinones’s DREAMLAND is giving the changes I’ve seen around this little slice of atrophied …
: Well, then - that was some impressive weather.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Upon a Return.
: Inputs, 09-15nov2020 Reading: Wrapped up Nick Bostrom’s (terrifying) SUPERINTELLIGENCE and a re-read of Jiro …
: First morning in longer than I can remember without penning and sending a newsletter (switched from …
: 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.
: 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 - …
: The past week of Tumor/Pestilence + enabler shenanigans have kept George Carlin’s immortal …
: EarBliss, 13nov2020: BECAUSE OF A FLOWER, by Ana Roxanne.
: Clearly in a weird mood this morning: not only am I amused that the sound of fork against bowl in …
: Links, 12nov2020 ‘She made music jump into 3D’: Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius, via The …
: EarBliss, 12nov2020: ARTLESSLY FALLING, by Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl.
: Pleased to report that the neighborhood turkey - my running partner for the last tenth mile of the …
: Every time I hear DeWine speak, I come away with both a deep disappointment in his transformation …
: EarBliss, 11nov2020: BURNHEART, by Johanna Burnheart
: Links, 10nov2020 Don’t define Biden’s victory down, via The Washington Post. The GSA’s Delay in Recognizing the Biden …
: No, Netflix email, I will not finish THE REPAIR SHOP, not until you add more than the first two …
: From the “on-the-tip-of-my-tongue-but” department: what’s the term for a quoted …
: About 3/4 of the way through Nick Bostrom’s SUPERINTELLIGENCE: I understand maybe a tenth of …
: EarBliss, 09nov2020: JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA, by Alice Coltrane.
: Watched BATMAN RETURNS for the first time in 20 years and it’s still my favorite Bat-flick: a …
: Neighborhood watch, camouflaged.
: Thank you, Screen Time, for informing me that my screen time was up 107% last week. Sorta had that …
: The 29th and final weekly issue of MacroParentheticals — switching to monthly for the foreseeable …
: ohthankfuck, part II, AP-edition.
: EarBliss, 07nov2020: SONGS FROM HOME, by Fred Hersch.
: A beautiful and poignant dispatch this morning from Nick Cave’s essential The Red Hand Files …
: Endorsing bourbon for breakfast.
: The final daily running route yard signage report for 03nov2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: EarBliss, 02nov2020: SKINS N SLIME, by Oliver Coates.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 02nov2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: The weekend’s Office / Sanctum re-organization (electoral anxiety edition).
: If this explosion in early voting leaves us with one legacy, I hope it’s that it forever …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 01nov2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: The 28th issue of my MacroParentheticals newsletter is on its way to inboxes. The week ends, the …
: EarBliss, 31oct2020: HEY CLOCKFACE, by Elvis Costello.
: Never again will I underestimate the capacity of Lego pry-tools to serve as useful monitor-risers.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 31oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Finished Michelle McNamara’s I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK: an essential piece of crime …
: Electoral news that made me smile: according to NYT data, I am, in my little rural conservative …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 30oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Links, 29oct2020 The radical implications of the Supreme Court’s new ruling on Wisconsin mail-in ballots, via Vox. …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 29oct2020 No formal daily running route yard signage update today as I draw the line at running outdoors in …
: I’m lucky that she loves me in spite of my drawing ability: Baby Yoda doodle for my wife’s birthday. …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 28oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Finally read Jason Lutes’s BERLIN and my only regret is that it never crossed my path until …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 27oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Pod-Equipment and Finger Yoga.
: Links, 26oct2020 An interview with Alexei Navalny, Assassination Survivor, via The Economist. The Tours of Dr Syntax …
: EarBliss, 26oct2020: WHO ARE YOU?, by Joel Ross.
: The great comics organization project begins.
: Cleaning up leaves in the yard and remembering how much Sadie, our beloved greyhound princess, loved …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 26oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Huge congratulations to Elizabeth Joan Kelly on the first anniversary of the release of FAREWELL, …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 25oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Issue 0027 of MacroParentheticals, featuring not only the music video premiere of Elizabeth Joan …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 24oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Very excited: the music video for the latest Elizabeth Joan Kelly / Geiger von Müller collaboration, …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 23oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Until this morning, I never realized that the words “Accepted for Counting” could be so …
: Homemade signs of sanity are springing up.
: Quoted: Chinua Achebe “I worry when somebody from one particular tradition stands up and says, “The novel is …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 22oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Household peak Baby Yoda = attained.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 21oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse: the podcasting begins, at long last, with The Socialized …
: A banner morning in project completion: the script for A Comic is complete; the story for Another …
: The first podcast episode is complete. (Exhales.) Launching tomorrow morning.
: Operation: Place-Ballot-in-Box-and-Do-My-Part-to-Restore-Reason-and-Sanity is complete.
: EarBliss, 20oct2020: MOLECULAR, by James Brandon Lewis Quartet.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 20oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Links, 19oct2020 Don DeLillo: ‘I wondered what would happen if power failed everywhere’, via The …
: Ronnie the Bonsai (my second Bonsai, after Bonnie the Bonsai’s unfortunate demise) is, in spite of …
: I’ve written books and symphonies and movies and comics and none of it prepared me for how …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 19oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: EarBliss, 19oct2020: SHENZOU, by Biosphere.
: In which Izzy considers making an unwise move.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 18oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Four years ago today, as I lay dying in the ER from diabetic ketoacidosis, I learned that I had Type …
: Links, 17oct2020 Cleveland Hospitals’ Private Police “Border Patrol” Comes Under Scrutiny, via ProPublica. Italian …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 17oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: EarBliss, 16oct2020: LESSENING, by Ralph Kinsella.
: Mail-in ballot status, on this, the seventh day of my mailbox vigil: no democracy today.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 16oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Still in a good mood: so wonderful to see THE WEST WING family back in action, no matter how …
: Mail-in ballot status, on this, the sixth day of my mailbox vigil: no democracy today.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 15oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Links, 14oct2020 Earth’s next mini-moon might be space junk from the 1960s, via The Verge. New research explores …
: Mail-in ballot status, on this, the fifth day of my mailbox vigil: no democracy today.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 14oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Frictional Thoughtspeed.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 13oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: EarBliss, 12oct2020: YUSEF LATEEF PLAYS YUSEF LATEEF VOL. ONE, by Yusef Lateef.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 12oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 11oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Issue 025 of MacroParentheticals is in the wild. Another week ends, another begins. The day’s …
: Links, 11oct2020 A close race in Ohio is bad news for Donald Trump, via The Economist. Federal judge issues scathing …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 10oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: EarBliss, 10oct2020: APPERCEPTION, by Innesti.
: EarBliss, 09oct2020: THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS, by William Basinski.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 09oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Links, 08oct2020 ‘GLOW’ Canceled By Netflix, Won’t Proceed With Fourth & Final Season Due To COVID-19, via …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 08oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: When I mix up the eggs for the day’s omelette, the sound of the fork against the bowl reminds …
: About to record the first interview for the first real episode of my new podcast, The Socialized …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 07oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… An Effort at Foundational Thought Re: The 2020 Election.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 06oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: EarBliss, 05oct2020: THE BRIDGE, by Sonny Rollins.
: Bags 7-8 (of 21). (Plus dog-child.)
: Daily running route yard signage report for 05oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Moving to weekly Parenthetical Recluse posting: time for a different challenge - and the space to …
: Waiting for Katie to emerge from her errand.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 04oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: The 24th installment of my MacroParentheticals dispatch is on its way to readers. The week ends/the …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 03oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Sticking with yesterday’s plan to switch Parenthetical Recluse daily posting to a Monday …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 02oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Oh, Hi, October.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 01oct2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Drafts / Sanctity of Disconnect.
: Round one, bags 1-3 (of 21).
: It begins / total assembly required.
: I love my Apple Watch, but the OS7 upgrade is enough to make me throw it in a drawer and never wear …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 29sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… my new podcast, THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE launches with …
: Very much a fan of Micro 2.0. Well done.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 29sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… PodLaunch Nears / CURSE OF THE WHITE KNIGHT.
: EarBliss, 28sep2020: THE ASCENSION, by Sufjan Stevens.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 28sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On Locative Unhappinesses Begrudgingly Accepted.
: LinkedIn email: Congratulate so-and-so on their such-and-such! / Me: Who?
: Daily running route yard signage report for 27sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Issue 0023 of my MacroParentheticals dispatch is in the wild. The week is done. More of Caro’s …
: Episode Naught, the test / intro episode of The Socialized Recluse, my upcoming podcast, has been …
: I had a running partner for the last 100 feet of the day’s run: Chester (my choice of name), …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 26sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 15 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Pre-Pod LaunchFlurry / Baby Yoda Monopoly.
: EarBliss, 25sep2020: DIALECTIC SOUL, by Asher Gamedze.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 25sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… So Much for That Then.
: Links, 24 sep2020 Of the Golden Age comics houses, EC was the greatest, via The Economist. Likely Voter Models: …
: A more heartening day than expected: wrote “The End” on a comics project (a few more …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 24sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: EarBliss, 24sep2020: PALO ALTO, by Thelonius Monk.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 23sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Interlude and Proclamation: Weekly Essays + Pod.
: Links, 22sep2020 Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor, via …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 22sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Nothing at Parenthetical Recluse this morning. Switching to weekly – too many plates spinning and …
: There are few modern phrases/platitudes that I loathe more than “crush it.”
: Daily running route yard signage report for 21sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: Three years ago today, after some excremental excuse for a human being dumped this bundle of love, …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Circumstantial Signage Hope and Other Circumstances.
: Finally figured out a useful use for the corkboard – other than overwhelming me with scraps of all …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 20sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 …
: The latest issue of MacroParentheticals is on its journey to inboxes. Another week ends, another …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 19sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… A Gut Feeling Thought Out.
: Breakfast self: I think it’s time to try a return to Twitter. Lunch self: …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 18sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Dispatches from UpdateLand.
: The new doorknob is installed. Much chiseling ensued.
: Links, 17sep2020 How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election, via The New Yorker. How Bob does it: 5 secrets …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 17sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Patchy, Dense MARIO / On GIRI/HAJI.
: Warpless MARIO attempt, 16sep2020….
: Note to self: never underestimate the therapeutic powers of re-organizing a toolbox.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 16sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… In Progress: THE POWER BROKER.
: EarBliss, 15sep2020, ARALKUM, by Galya Bisengalieva.
: Twist cap to open, the salad dressing bottle says. You lie! I say.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 15sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… You’re Stuck with Me Every Day, Sorry.
: EarBliss, 14sep2020: GRAN KASA, by Alvaro Rojas.
: Others may stockpile toilet paper and other essentials. We stockpile Baby Yoda ephemera - and we …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 14sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Warpless MARIO attempt, 13sep2020….(terrible shot, made it to 3-3. )
: Daily running route yard signage report for 13sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Issue 0021 of my MacroParentheticals newsletter is in the wild; the week is done. More of …
: EarBliss, 13sep2020: BRANCHES, VOL. 1, by Tomoko Omura.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 12sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: EarBliss, 12sep2020: LAUWARM INSTRUMENTALS, by Scanner.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On Navigating Choppy Waters as Friends Wave From the …
: Warpless MARIO attempt, 11sep2020.
: Has anybody watched RAISED BY WOLVES yet? I’m intrigued, but haven’t decided if …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 11sep2020: out of 92 houses, there are 17 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Grey Skies, Patchy Internet…
: Daily running route yard signage report for 10sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 23 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Disappointment Drill.
: EarBliss, 09sep2020: DRAW ME A SILENCE PART I and II, by Azu Tiwaline.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 09sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 23 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… A Sink Odyssey Concluded / A Project Update Updated.
: Sink update: new drain system and pipes installed; clog unclogged. Househusband powers, +1.
: Warpless MARIO attempt, 08sep2020.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 08sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 21 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Sink Drains, Warpless MARIO, and the First Sign.
: Plumbing: the adventure continues.
: Decided that I’m going to try to beat SUPER MARIO BROS. without resorting to warp zones for the …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Please Stand By.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 07sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 21 …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 06sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 21 …
: The 20th dispatch of MacroParentheticals is off on its journey to inboxes. And so the week is done. …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 05sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 20 …
: EarBliss, 05sep2020: BEHOLD A BLACK WAVE - EP, by Calabashed.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 05sep2020.
: The podcast marches towards reality: the mixer, she has arrived.
: In order to get through the to-read stacks and just pick up the next book without thought or design, …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 04sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 20 …
: EarBliss, 04sep2020: BEETHOVEN: LEONORE OVERTURE No.3, SYMPHONY No.7, by Saito Kinen Orchestra and …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Dispatches from Plagueville, Level Three.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 03sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 20 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… FAQs I’ve Never Been Asked, The Sequel.
: The mixer is ordered: this podcasting thing is getting more and more real. Looking forward to my …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 02sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 20 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Ports of WorkSanity / Screaming Neighbors / Yard Signage …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 01sep2020: out of 110 houses, there are 20 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Patchy and Dense.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 31aug2020: 110 houses, 18 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+1), 0 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Context: Dismaying Running Route Yard Signage Data.
: EarBliss, 31aug2020: SUPERNOVA REMNANT , by Gemini Revolution.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 30aug2020: 110 houses, 17 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+2), 0 …
: MacroParentheticals0019 is on its way to subscribers' inboxes and that’s that for that. The …
: EarBliss, 29aug2020: AXIOM, by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 29aug2020: 110 houses, 15 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 29aug2020.
: Update: the brave yellow chair weathered the storm.
: A lone, brave yellow chair rides out the storm.
: Thinking it might be time to (make another attempt to) go weekly with the Parenthetical Recluse …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 28aug2020: 110 houses, 15 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+2), 0 …
: EarBliss, 28aug2020: SOURCE, by Nubya Garcia.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Perfectionism / THREE JOKERS / Handwriting.
: Read the first issue of BATMAN: THREE JOKERS and I might have some thoughts tomorrow at PR. Or I …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 27aug2020: 110 houses, 13 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Input Updates, 27aug2020.
: To-read stack update, 27aug2020.
: Just finished Hilary Mantel’s THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT. First thoughts: a spectacular …
: This meeting will come to order. (Order, I say.)
: Daily running route yard signage report for 26aug2020: 110 houses, 13 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+2), 0 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes Upon Persistent Electoral Dismay.
: The mic has arrived: now that I’ve spent money on it, this podcast is happening. (Apologies in …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Local Yard Signage / Vortex Update. Also: my Status page …
: EarBliss, 24aug2020: THE QUIET CITY, by Library Tapes.
: Every so often I consider updating my LinkedIn profile. And then I go to the site and decide …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 24aug2020: 110 houses, 11 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Dispatches from The Vortex.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 23aug2020: 110 houses, 11 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Issue 0018 of my MacroParentheticals newsletter is off to inboxes and eyes. Note: it’s …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 22aug2020: 110 houses, 11 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+4), 0 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Happy Weekend: I’m Terrible at Relaxing But.
: EarBliss, 22aug2020: PEEL, by KMRU.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 21aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: EarBliss, 21aug2020: CONNECT, by Charles Tolliver.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of These Fragments of Expression and Guarded Hope.
: Working to reawaken my years-dormant and semi-competent ability to write comics scripts has been a …
: EarBliss, 20aug2020: ULTIMATE SUCCESS TODAY, by Protomartyr.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 20aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 20aug2020.
: And so the schedule shifts continue… but they’re finally settling into a semblance of …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 19aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Early and Often: A Public Service Ramble.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 18aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: EarBliss, 18aug2020: NUBYA’S 5IVE, by Nubya Garcia.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Mindscheduling.
: The situation escalated quickly.
: Watching, 17aug2020: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, dir. Ingmar Bergman (1961).
: Daily running route yard signage report for 17aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: EarBliss, 17aug2020: JULIUS EASTMAN: UNJUST MAILAISE, by Various Artists and Julius Eastman.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Back to School / Mind the Enthusiasm.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 16aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Issue 0017 of MacroParentheticals – complete with a mini-music-school reunion – is on its way to …
: EarBliss, 16aug2020: MEREDITH MONK: PIANO SONGS, by Ursula Oppens and Bruce Brubaker.
: Backyard, 28apr2020 and 15aug2020.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 15aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Ink Breath.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 14aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Insulin has been delivered: I get to live for another year, give or take.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brubaker-Phillips, BAD WEEKEND / RECKLESS.
: EarBliss, 14aug2020: PERRY MASON, SEASON ONE: MUSIC FROM THE HBO SERIES, by Terence Blanchard.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 13aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… MASK OF THE PHANTASM, Revisited.
: Thanks to having spent the last month laying bricks and building our back patio, I’ve finally lived …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 12aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of VPs, Comics, and Life Ransoms.
: EarBliss, 12aug2020: PENELOPE ONE, by Penelope Trappes - thanks to Elizabeth Joan Kelly for …
: Making Wednesdays and Sundays comics scripting days is the smartest move I’ve made in a long …
: And also in “news that makes for a good day”: my wife knocked it out of the birthday gift park.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 11aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bookends Return.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 10aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Stand and Write / Blood Sugar Brain-Fight / PERRY MASON.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 09aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: My wife is reading Darwyn Cooke’s NEW FRONTIER for the first time. I’m envious: …
: Issue 0016 of MacroParentheticals is on its way to inboxes; the week is done / the week begins. Back …
: Main thing keeping me from using iA Writer as my main online writing tool: unlike Drafts, the sync …
: Backyard patio work continues.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 08aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Bricks and Hyperglycemic TimeTasks.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 07aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: A tow truck towing a school bus greeted me at the outset of the morning’s run. An ominous - …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Year 39, Attained.
: Evidence of Jorkie approval.
: Backyard patio work continues with couch placement (The Jorkie approves of her new guard/barking …
: EarBliss, 06aug2020: AND THEIR REFINEMENT OF THE DECLINE, by Stars of the Lid.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 06aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Fortnightly Adventures in Cyborg Sleep Deprivation.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 05aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Systems Thought About So I Don’t Have to Have …
: Links, 04aug2020 How the Pandemic Defeated America, via The Atlantic. Wong Kar Wai Sets ‘Blossoms Shanghai’ As Debut …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 04aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Once More, with Feeling: I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK.
: Quoted: Nick Cave, 04aug2020 “In my experience, lyrics are almost always seemingly just not coming. This is the tearful …
: EarBliss, 03aug2020: ENDESSIAH, by Treha Sektori.
: With the addition of cup-bearing Baby Yoda to my desk, any mental fuckeries can be defused with a …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 03aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Doomscroll / Buzzkill / Baby Yoda.
: Links, 02aug2020 Monk’s dream deferred: a record in limbo, via The Economist. Democrats demand answers from …
: Figured out a solution to the the aforementioned timesuck problem: installed Forest on the iPad and …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 02aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Screen Time would be a lot more useful - I think, anyhow - if you could limit your number of app …
: A wordy - though update-laden - 15th dispatch of MacroParentheticals is on its way to inboxes; the …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 01aug2020: 110 houses, 7* Tumor/Pestilence signs (-1), 0 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Blisses Followed and Corkboards Pinned and Etc Etc …
: Finally found more Chemex filters. Preparations complete for the next phase of the plague.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 31jul2020... 110 houses, 8* Tumor/Pestilence signs (+1), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 94 days and 13 hours remain until …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Latest Necessity in Educator Back-to-School …
: A heartening morning on the podcast thinking front. I miss interviewing people, and seeing that a …
: Links, 30jul2020 At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks, via The …
: Mulchapalooza 2020 continues.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… When Eagles Attack / TO:KY:OO.
: Finally purchased Liam Wong’s sublime book of Tokyo night photography, TO:KY:OO, and am already in …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 29jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Horns Honking and Yard Signs Signing.
: It’s been a week since I’ve posted to the “big two” social network slot …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 28jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (-1), 0 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Selfishly Considering I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK.
: Two questions, Micro-verse: one, I’m looking for a good guide to starting a podcast; and two, …
: Finally finished Costa-Gavras’s Z: easily one of the best political thrillers I’ve seen …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Stable Permutations / MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN.
: EarBliss, 27jul2020: ULTRAVIOLET, by Kelly Moran.
: Links, 26jul2020 Ohio’s businesses were all for mask mandates. Then politics got in the way, via The Washington Post. …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 26july2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Issue 0014 of MacroParentheticals is on its way to subscribers. The week is done - and more …
: EarBliss, 25jul2020: PROPHECY, by Laurence Pike.
: Today’s yard work: the in-ground Morkie pool is complete - and enjoyed by both The Morkie and The …
: I’ve turned my wife into a James Ellroy fan. Plague or no, this summer can be considered a success.
: Made the switch to an annual subscription. Sorry, Micro-verse, but you’re stuck with me for at …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 25jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Plans Crushed by Henry’s Whims.
: EarBliss, 24jul2020-2: THIS WHOLE EMPTINESS, by Ricardo Dias Gomes and Star Rover.
: Nearing an important milestone: we’ve scattered / moved / spread 19 cubic yards of mulch since …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 24jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: EarBliss, 24jul2020: SONGS OF AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, by Zara McFarlane.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 24jul2020.
: Props to the fly that tried their best to make this morning’s work block a re-enactment of …
: Links, 23jul2020 Improved Insulin Patch Could Replace Pumps, CGMs, and MDI, via Insulin Nation. What Could Happen If …
: Today’s yard work: flower bed expansion, Jorkie assistance, and cool plants that my wife told me the …
: EarBliss, 23jul2020: HAND IN HAND, by Felicia Atkinson.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Disembodied Mask-Wearing Zoom Head, Continued.
: Links, 22jul2020 The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China, via The Economist. How to Understand …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 22jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Not sure if this is in the works - or if one of the third-party Micro-apps does it - but it’d …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Beware, for My Disembodied Head Returns to the …
: EarBliss, 22jul2020: THE GREAT LAKE SWALLOWS - EP, by Julia Kent and Jean D.L.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 21jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Backyard Brain Phantoms.
: Watching, 20jul2020: Z, dir. Costa-Gavras (1969).
: Update the second: my emergency re-potting of a wayward succulent still yields life.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 20jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Inchoate Prequel Notes, +15-21 Years.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 19jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Issue 0013 of MacroParentheticals is on its way to subscribers; the week is done. Back to work.
: Update: my repotting adventure met with approval. I remain cautiously opti-pessimistic.
: Just re-potted my first succulent without my wife around. Found that it had broken free of the bonds …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 18jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: I just don’t get how to function in a family. Write a book in five months on deadline, sure. …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brief Saturday Notes / THE FIVE.
: EarBliss, 17jul2020: TRANSIENTS, Vols 1 and 2, by Andrea Keller.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 17jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Seeking That Third Project Still, Again….
: Pretty sure that I’ve spent more time downloading updates to THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION than …
: EarBliss, 16jul2020: FIVE° BELOW LIVE, by Andrea Keller.
: Sitting here, reading the news - a sudden moment of clarity: I don’t want to read all this news.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 16jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Rural Yard Signage, Wasted Gubernatorial Breath, and THE …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 15jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: This morning, at Parenthetical Recluse… Rebalancing / Returning to the Trinity, Again.
: Will eventually return to full mental capacity here. Refueling, etc etc.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 14jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+1), 0 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Considering The Work, The Rush.
: EarBliss, 13jul2020: BOTH LINES WILL BE BLUE, by Carmen Villain.
: Because the solution is always “more Baby Yoda. “
: Daily running route yard signage report for 13jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Fleeting Roadside Report, 13jul2020.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 12jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: This week’s installment of MacroParentheticals, with special guest Elizabeth Joan Kelly - …
: Update: photographic evidence of the aforementioned potential wonder of the world, minus human …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 11jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Ephemeral Weekend Exorcisms of No Particular …
: EarBliss, 11jul2020: VISIONS/VOICES, by Felicia Atkinson.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 10jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…What I Type About When I Type About Running.
: EarBliss, 09jul2020: ISTAMPITE: MEDIEVAL PIECES FOR FIDDLE AND PERCUSSION, by Stevie Wishart and …
: Heard a tree fall in the woods on my run. Not sure if it was cut down or just fell on its own. …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 09jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Answers to FAQS I’ve Never Been Asked So I Guess …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 08jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: David Lynch is my favorite meteorologist.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Updated Notes on Connected Insecurity.
: EarBliss, 07jul2020: LEY LINES, by Emma-Jean Thackray.
: Meanwhile, in useful handcrafted road signage…
: Daily running route yard signage report for 07jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Follow-Ups and Summertime COVID Fun.
: EarBliss, 06jul2020-B: GREEN & GREY (Expanded), by Julia Kent.
: A selection of favorite films from my Blu-Ray gold mine / stash:
: While my scrawled and duly posted Post-It notes are easy to find, the actual Post-It pad is …
: No daily running route yard signage report for 06jul2020; will return tomorrow. 119 days and 13 …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Parking Garage Interregnum, 06jul2020
: EarBliss, 06jul2020 (sleep well, Il Maestro): C’ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST Soundtrack, by Ennio …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 05jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+1), 0 …
: Newsletter is out, the week is done. And, oh, such wonders await. Or something.
: Dog-children have been wrangled from their daily post-breakfast out-of-doors adventure and …
: Update: second half of DA 5 BLOODS exceeded my expectations. Favorite film of the year; Delroy Lindo …
: EarBliss, 04jul2020: UNVISITED TOMBS: MÖDRAR, by Kristine Barrett.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 04jul2020: 110 houses, 6 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Halfway through Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS and am confident that, if the second half is as great …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… From the Depths to the Shallows and Back Again, In …
: Witnessed a potential wonder of the world: an individual repairing his vehicle - one devoid of …
: Daily running route yard signage report for 03jul2020: 110 houses, 6 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Dispatches from Plaguetown, OH, 03jul2020.
: Another one of those days in a week or a month or a year of one of those days.
: Daily running route yard signage report for 02jul2020: 110 houses, 6 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… In Progress: MOBY DICK.
: Links, 01jul2020 ‘I pray it will finally be over’: Golden State Killer survivors hope guilty plea brings …
: EarBliss, 01jul2020: SKETCHES, by Library Tapes.
: Backyard pretty to balance yard signage report.
: Running route yard signage report for 01jul2020: 110 houses, 6 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0 from …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Wrist-Cyborg Time Manipulation, Continued.
: EarBliss, 30jun2020 (double bill edition): LUCE, by Julia Kent; GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS, by Nine Inch …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Press Start / As We Were.
: Running route yard signage report for 29jun2020: 110 houses, 6 Tumor/Pestilence signs (-1 from last …
: EarBliss, 29jun2020: THINGS HAPPENED HERE, by Kansas Smitty’s.
: Issue 0010 of MacroParentheticals is written and sent; the week is done.
: Can someone point me to a way to set up Drafts action to send directly to iA Writer without having …
: Links, 27jun2020 Flu-COVID ‘Collision’ Expected This Fall, Health Experts Warn, via MedScape. I’ll …
: Backyard patio project, phase two: it has begun.
: Efforts continue to make the Parenthetical Trinity more useful not only to me but to those who …
: EarBliss, 26jun2020: FREEDOM HIGHWAY, by Rhiannon Giddens.
: EarBliss, 25jun2020: RECORDINGS 1987-1991, VOL 1, by Valentina Goncharova.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… On IRMA VEP.
: EarBliss, 23jun2020: CANTUS, by Kuniko.
: Links, 22jun2020 In a Morning Raid, Russian Police Arrested Pussy Riot Member Peter Verzilov for His Alleged Role in …
: Decided to give a weekly posting schedule at Parenthetical Recluse another go. Time for something …
: Took almost three weeks before I had the chance to finish IRMA VEP, but it was well worth the wait. …
: That I am known as “Tylor” by the mechanics who repaired my brake line last week has been the source …
: Issue 0009 of the newsletter is in the wild. And so the morning goes. Back to work.
: Update to the update: he’s heading home. All clear.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Current Social Media Mental Space, Etc.
: The koi are pleased that their floral decor is in bloom.
: Mulching, the adventure continues.
: EarBliss, 19jun2020: ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS, by Bob Dylan (it’s as good as the reviews and then …
: Update to the update: Dehydration but he’s doing fine; rest and fluids helping. All tests and …
: Update: hospital, though he’s doing ok.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Crises Internal and Their Amelioration By Way of …
: Links, 18jun2020 Warner Bros, DC To Develop Original Podcasts With Spotify, via Deadline. Early Photographs of …
: Welcome back, Micro. I missed you this morning.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Unmoored / TWICE UPON A TIME.
: Links, 17jun2020-B Topsychopor by Roland Topor, via feuilleton. North Korea blows up detente with the South, via The …
: Today’s afternoon garden work: we dug up the old stone pathway, mulched (so much mulch), and put the …
: Links, 17jun2020-A Former eBay executives charged with cyberstalking after allegedly sending bloody pig mask to …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep / Yard Signage Report, 17jun2020
: Efforts to shape my day into a useful balance of spinning plates and roles are bearing fruit. All …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… THE GLASS HOTEL / Bullet Journal Update.
: Links, 15jun2020 A plan to turn the atmosphere into one enormous sensor, via The Economist. How America’s Hospitals …
: Routine: consider Twitter again - post to Twitter again - remember everyone you interacted with is …
: Vacuuming day toy protection.
: First time using the index part of a bullet journal- my notebooks having metamorphosed into …
: Loved KNIVES OUT but THE BROTHERS BLOOM is still my favorite Rian Johnson film.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Have I Accepted My Resignation or Resigned Myself to …
: The new notebook is bullet-journaled-up and ready to go tomorrow morning.
: The button is pressed: issue 0008 of MacroParentheticals has commenced its inbox-bound journey. The …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Channels and Frequencies and a Note on a Passing
: Links, 12jun2020 Blue Note Classics To Be Updated On New Compilation, via The Quietus. A Year After It Was Stolen, …
: EarBliss, 12jun2020: ARROW, by Noveller.
: Saddened to read of Denny O’Neil’s passing: I grew up loving and inspired by his work - …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Baby Yoda is Here and The Morkie is Unsettled.
: Briefly considered a return to Twitter but managed to talk myself down from that particular …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Storms Passing and Cannonball Splashes.
: Links, 10jun2020 Bassoonfluencers: The World of Instagram Practice Accounts, via The New Yorker. Why Romney Marched, …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Upon These States of Illegible (In)Flexibility.
: EarBliss, 09jun2020: THE NATIONAL ROAD, by Field Works.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bit of a Rush This Morning So Here’s a Dog Picture …
: The marriage between an expert gardener and a functional chef symbolized.
: Reading status: 37 - so far - this year
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Sticker Aquariums and Deadline Grotesques.
: In the process of moving essential Micro and Twitter follows to Feedbin. My march towards online …
: Newsletter is written and sent; so ends the week. Project folder review and the day’s run …
: Earbliss, 07jun2020: MY FAVOURITE FADED FANTASY, by Damien Rice.
: Links, 06jun2020 I Cover Cops as an Investigative Reporter. Here Are Five Ways You Can Start Holding Your Department …
: My contribution to the garden: from wheelbarrow to clematis climbing wall. Note: while my wife is …
: EarBliss, 06jun2020: ETT, by Klara Lewis.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 06jun2020.
: My wife just bought me a Living Stone succulent. Judging by its care requirements, it‘s the perfect …
: Watching, 05jun2020: IRMA VEP, dir. Olivier Assayas (1996).
: I can always depend on the work of László Krasznahorkai to pull my brain out of its overused …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Drift Synthesis and Further Adventures in Useful Brain …
: Links, 04jun2020 VizPol takes a cue from bird-watching apps to help journalists identify unfamiliar political …
: “But for those who see clearly that it is a circle and why it is a circle, there is no …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Brain-Clearing Statement of Purpose Again, Maybe.
: EarBliss, 03jun2020: SILVER DOLLAR, by Threadbare.
: Links, 03jun2020 CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns abroad see troubling parallels in Trump’s handling of …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes from This Bastion of Days That Never Existed.
: Office / Sanctum (haphazard) design aesthetic: antique mall booth, a sense of potential discovery at …
: Links, 02jun2020 Autocrats Love Using the Bible as a Prop. Americans Shouldn’t, via Foreign Policy. Mexico’s …
: A small group of essential reads for transforming thought and expanding perspective. While …
: A morning of outrunning the monster in my brain and its fondness for replaying the same destructive …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… 02jun2020.
: The smallest two of our dog-children (AKA The Rulers, AKA The Brain-Trust..AKA…), as …
: Twitter set to private and future use in limbo; daily blog moved to text-only; and this space and …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…That Wednesday Thing? Nevermind.
: The week’s newsletter is done; the day’s run awaits.
: EarBliss, 31may2020: ULTRASONIC, by Field Works, et. al.
: Links, 30may2020 Missing The Jackpot: William Gibson’s Slow-Cooked Apocalypse, via The Quietus. Don’t let …
: USB cable unearthed: ye olde Macbook Air can officially be my disconnected, long-form work machine. …
: EarBliss, 30may2020: TOO, by Klara Lewis.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… And So We Part – At Least Until Next Wednesday…. (Note: …
: Links, 29may2020 Martin Scorsese in lockdown: an auteur’s eye view of house arrest | Martin Scorsese, via The …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… And So It Tweets…
: Links, 28may2020 Boston Marathon officially canceled for first time in event’s 124-year history, via The Washington …
: Needs a border, but my first project of the summer, my “I’m moderately successful at pretending that …
: Shuffling about subscriptions, news sources, etc: efforts to shake up my digital reading/mindcarb …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… HyperglycemicSunMax.
: First impressions of HBO Max: at least I can finally see the 10th and 11th series of DOCTOR WHO.
: EarBliss, 27may2020: FREE JAZZ, by François Tusques.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Drafts / Bullet Journal Experiment, Continued and Begun.
: Links, 26may2020 J.K. Rowling is releasing a new book chapter-by-chapter online for free, via a The Verge. As …
: Back and forth between the one-post look of my daily blog or the multiple-post look. I dig the FAR …
: Criterion Channel on XBox One, day five.
: EarBliss, 26may2020: MURDER MOST FOUL, by Bob Dylan.
: Finally working on making Drafts my default online writing toolbox. Saving iA Writer for the deeper, …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… In-Lawn Allergen Cloud / Mower Blade Quiet.
: Links, 25may2020 The Beginner’s Guide to Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour, via Pitchfork. Death counts become the rhythm …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I’ve Tried Again Later All Weekend, Criterion …
: A goal this and every morning - to be empty after the day’s work, to begin the process of re-filling …
: Unidentified neighbor cat lounging in the morning’s fog / 0500, give or take.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Mirror Shards and Popcorn.
: Links, 22may2020 Goodbye, Government. Hello, Mafia, via Foreign Policy. What Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League is …
: Accepting the reign of my hosta overlords.
: My first afternoon of precious solitude in weeks and the Criterion Channel XBox app goes wonky. …
: Casting my book recommendation into Micro-verse with my reading list from the last seven years. Most …
: EarBliss, 22may2020: GHOSTS V: TOGETHER / GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS, by Nine Inch Nails.
: Parenthetical Update, 22may2020: Drafts for the Apple Watch is brilliant but I’ll have to …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brain Defragmentation, In Progress / Wrist-Cyborg, V2.0.
: Current rotation, 21may2020.
: Groomed Jorkie / Groomed Morkie
: Trying out Drafts on Apple Watch: you may consider me a happy wrist-cyborg again.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 21may2020.
: Links, 20may2020 Now IDW Lets Go Of Employees, Permanently, via Bleeding Cool. A German Student Broke Into an …
: Also in kitchen musings: over the last several months, I’ve developed a craving for smoked paprika. …
: Some might call it a hammer wrapped in aluminum foil. I call it my essential meal prep device/meat …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bullet Journal Week / DEEP WORK / Wrist-Cyborg …
: Links, 19may2020 Explorers can take Titanic’s Marconi telegraph, cutting into wreck for first time, via The …
: Took about two months after “The Great Shattering,” but I’m missing my Apple Watch on a …
: A work in progress, but I finally added a Status page to Parenthetical Recluse.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…CONTROL, Continued.
: Links, 18may2020 She posed as a nurse during the 1918 flu pandemic and went on a crime spree, via The Washington …
: Latest additions to the to-read stockpile.
: The more I consider it, the wiser the retreat into the blog/Micro/newsletter feels. …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Retreating Into the Parenthetical Trinity Again, Maybe, …
: This week’s MacroParentheticals dispatch is in the ether: the week is done. And there was much …
: Important news: I have given the Dog-Children their own channel at MicroParentheticals. Carry on.
: EarBliss, 16may2020/two-fer edition: THE MOSAIC OF TRANSFORMATION, by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / and …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… CONTROL / An Informal Dispatch from the Heartlandic Fog.
: Links, 15may2020 A new comic (and process sketches) by Nick Sousanis is always reason to celebrate: No Sides, via …
: I derive a ridiculous amount of comfort from David Lynch’s daily weather report.
: I always knew my wife was a remarkable teacher but little did I know that she was also a gifted …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Daylight Encroaches / Neighborly Proximity / THE SEVENTH …
: Links, 14may2020 Here comes the drop(kick): The sick beats in ‘Streets of Rage’, via The Washington Post. Electronic …
: EarBliss, 14may2020: LIVE IN WILLISAU, by James Brandon Lewis and Chad Taylor.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Handwritten InLawn and Other Experiments.
: Links, 13may2020 Arlington Cemetery’s 105-year-old time capsule is revealing lost treasures, via The Washington Post. …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bullet Journal Experiment Begins / Lamy 2000 Love …
: Links, 12may2020 These Companies Got Millions in Tax Breaks to Bring Jobs to Youngstown. They Created Next to None, …
: Tinkering with a hybrid/bastardized (read: making this up as I go along, using general guidelines to …
: Now that the Criterion Channel has arrived on XBox, I need something else missing from my life to …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Dispatches on (Another) Postprandial Void.
: Links, 11may2020 Glacial ice will likely hold records of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say, via phys.org. What …
: Just played Castlevania IV for the first time in +/- 25 years and the muscle memory is still there. …
: EarBliss, 11may2020: IF YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY THE MUSIC IS YOURS, by Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic …
: 11 May and I’m still donning winter garb for the day’s run. That groundhog was full of shit.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… From Behind These Walls of Books and Sound.
: EarBliss, 10may2020: LIVE AT ROADBURN 2018, by Zola Jesus.
: The newsletter is in the wild and the week is done. The day’s run awaits.
: EarBliss, 09may2020: OBJECTLESS, by Osamu Sato.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Notes Upon a Chemex Weary / A PLAGUE TALE Concluded.
: Good morning. The house is currently doubling as Morkie-Jorkie roller derby rink.
: Links, 08may2020 A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic, via The …
: Welcome to my life, Lamy 2000… I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Words Forgotten / Public Service Announcement.
: Links, 07may2020 Coronavirus researcher killed in Pennsylvania murder-suicide, police say, via The Washington Post. …
: While I’m still and forever tinkering with forms and formats to best integrate my newsletter, …
: A hot water heater moved / flower boxes re-re-re-installed / a writing lesson taught: and so goes …
: EarBliss, 07may2020: CENIZAS, by Nicolas Jaar.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Here Among These Divergent Bildungsroman Timelines.
: Chatted with my best friend from music school for the first time in almost 15 years. Damn, I missed …
: Watching, 06may2020: SANSHIRO SUGATA, dir. Akira Kurosawa (1943).
: Finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s THE NAMESAKE: her place among my favorite authors remains a fortified …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Returning to the Broadcast Woodshed.
: After a few weeks, I’ve reached the “upgrade to annual subscription” stage of love with …
: Links, 05may2020 Ingenious: ‘The Blacklist’ Uses Graphic Novel-Style Animation To Finish Season 7 Finale Cut Short By …
: On the eventual project/experiential toiling docket: podcasting and microcasting. Produced one long …
: Oh, Lamy 2000, you will soon be mine.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Mask-Outings and Babu Frik Midpoints.
: Day one of Ohio’s “Responsible Re-Start” and I’ve been hearing sirens all morning. Let the good …
: EarBliss, 04may2020: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, by Angelo Badalamenti.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brief Notes on Finishing: Montaigne / WESTWORLD.
: Wrote a log line for the first time in more than a decade and it’s not awful. (Pats back, returns to …
: It’s taken three years and more than a few sticky tabs, but I’ve finished reading Montaigne’s …
: Links, 03may2020 Looters Are Taking Advantage of the Worldwide Lockdown to Rob Cultural Heritage Sites—and Selling …
: The newsletter is in the ether and the week is done. Back to work.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I Am My Own Worst Enemy (No Shit, Right?).
: Thinking that it’s time for one of my occasional purgings/refreshings of RSS feeds. Getting a little …
: EarBliss, 01may2020 (the ”title may be ill-timed to the current situation but whatever it’s …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… CHUNGKING EXPRESS, Revisited.
: Links, 30apr2020 ‘Hanna’ Teaser: Amazon Announces Release Date for Season 2, via IndieWire. Microsoft’s big Xbox Game …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 30apr2020 / “Responsible Re-Start” …
: Links, 29apr2020 Under pressure to reopen this fall, school leaders plot unprecedented changes, via The Washington …
: Watching, 29apr2020: NIGHTFALL, dir. Jacques Tourneur (1956). (First Criterion Channel pick; could …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I (Have, Can, and Will Let Myself) Watch Movies.
: Now that I have the Criterion Channel, the next step is letting myself take the time to sit down and …
: The Criterion Channel is available on XBox One - had to search for the app in the store, though. …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of These First Baby-Steps with Drafts.
: Links, 27apr2020 The Very Real Threat of Trump’s Deepfake, via The Atlantic. Five Things to Know If Kim Jong Un Dies, …
: Finally decided to give the Drafts app a try. Think I might already be sold on it. (Thanks, @kaa and …
: Just making my semi-regular statement of desire for The Criterion Channel to be available as an XBox …
: EarBliss, 27apr2020: MANHATTAN SPECIAL, by Onyx Collective.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Polarities and Process, Ad Infinitum.
: Links, 26apr2020 Bolshoi in the kitchen: Russian ballet is also working from home during lockdown, via The Washington …
: Over the last decade, I’ve learned: gardening without killing plants; basic plumbing; pergola …
: The first dispatch (99th in legacy numbering) of my relaunched newsletter, MacroParentheticals is in …
: It only took seven years, but I just now realized that the titles of my first two books start with …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… my new interview series launches with existential dread …
: Mulch. So much mulch. So very, very much.
: EarBliss, 24apr2020: THE SPIRITUAL BONDING, by vidnaObmana.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Process Acceptance, (Re)Launchings, and Season …
: Links, 23apr2020 The Postal Service in the Days of the Virus, via Reading the Pictures. ‘Leverage’ Reboot Starring …
: EarBliss, 23apr2020: SHAMAL WIND, by Chip Wickham.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of BloodSugar Concatenations and Fragmentations.
: EarBliss, 22apr2020: THE GIUSEPPE LOGAN QUARTET, by The Giuseppe Logan Quartet.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I’d Like to Take My Back to THE REPAIR SHOP.
: Links, 21apr2020 The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form, via The Washington Post. Henri de …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Breaking News / Breaking Back.
: Links,20apr2020 False Prophet, via The Atlantic. The Viral Coronavirus Protest Photo from Ohio, via Reading the …
: Relieved that my wife’s - a sixth grade teacher - extended spring break has been extended into an …
: EarBliss, 20apr2020: KNIVE, by Svarte Greiner.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brain-Clearing/ThoughtBuffet 20apr2020.
: Final Mailchimp newsletter is done and sent into the digital ether. Relaunching next week as …
: EarBliss, 18apr2020: CHICAGO UNDERGROUND QUARTET, by Chicago Underground Quartet.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… In Which We Pause Our Regular Broadcast for Static …
: Links, 17apr2020 Satellite images reveal scars etched into landscape from deadly tornado outbreak in South, via The …
: EarBliss, 17apr2020 (the “as if it could be anything else” edition): FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS, by …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Re-Openings and Moth-Eaten Hats From Lives Past.
: It also helped that my wife reminded me that, even though I may work on my two other projects (other …
: It may have taken 10 years, but I might have learned my lesson and accepted that all creative work …
: Links, 16apr2020 Pandemic will delay blockbuster trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, via Stat. Giovanni …
: Update: in true anti-climactic fashion, and with nary a profanity uttered - as in “holy shit, it’s …
: The day thus far: write, eat, write, run, eat, read. Next: fix vacuum cleaner.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Cosmic Jokes in Black and White.
: Your daily dog-children status update for 15apr2020.
: EarBliss, 15apr2020: LIVE IN PARIS (1975), by Pharaoh Sanders.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… A Revisitation, In Progress: TORSO.
: Links, 14apr2020 Deepfakes 2.0: The New Era of “Truth Decay”, via Just Security. COVID-19 and Diabetes: Known …
: 200 pages into Paul Auster’s 4321 and it’s already a contender for inclusion among my favorite …
: EarBliss, 14apr2020: COLT, by Hilary Woods.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes on Continued Efforts to Outwit the Piranhas.
: Links, 13apr2020 Mafia distributes food to Italy’s struggling residents, via The Guardian. Ancient texts …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… QUANTUM OF SOLACE / Newsletter Relaunch T-Minus 13 Days.
: Considering moving my newsletter out of Mailchimp and to something a little simpler. Just don’t need …
: The moles were not practicing social distancing under my backyard.
: Progress: THE COMPLETE ESSAYS, by Michel de Montaigne.
: Never thought that my primary statements of life in the COVID-19 era would be a series of …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 11apr2020
: EarBliss, 11apr2020: FAÞIR, by Forndom.
: Links, 10apr2020 Did Ohio get it right? Early intervention, preparation for pandemic may pay off, via The Washington …
: EarBliss, 10apr2020-2: DARK MATTER, by Moses Boyd.
: Current rotation, 10apr2020.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… 10 Years On and Still Fighting I Think.
: EarBliss, 10apr2020: MONUMENTS, by North Atlantic Drift.
: Links, 09apr2020 The Statue of Liberty’s Most Iconic Feature Was Originally Supposed to Look Very Different, Newly …
: EarBliss, 09apr2020: FOR THIS FROM THAT WILL BE FILLED, by Clarice Jensen.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Schedule Permutations and Squirrel …
: Links, 08apr2020 Thou Shalt Practice Social Distancing, via Foreign Policy. Scoop: Staples refuses to pay landlords …
: No, autocorrect, I didn’t want to write “tofu king tired” but now that you went ahead and wrote it, …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Odyssey: Of Minotaurs Vanquished and Midnight Wakings.
: EarBliss, 08apr2020: DEPARTURES, Vols. 1 & 2, by North Atlantic Drift.
: Links 07apr2020 For the First Time in a Century, Conservators Took This Mummy Out of Her Coffin—and Found a Hidden …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep07apr2020.
: If you’re looking for something to read, I’ve been keeping a list of every book I’ve read for the …
: Current rotation, 06apr2020.
: Links, 06apr2020 Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus, via Foreign Policy. Work from home, they …
: EarBliss, 06apr2020… ELEPHANT, by Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Further Clarification of a Conversation, for Real This …
: Quoted: Jorge Luis Borges “I felt, on the last page, that my story was a symbol of the man I had been as I was writing it, …
: Personal path to effective writing days: write the first chunk by hand, save the typed version for …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… A Conversation/Chat, Clarified, Somewhat – for …
: Netflix is getting really pushy via email: FINISH THIS SHOW. YOU LIKE IT. (I’ll just continue to …
: From the writing sanctum walls:
: Dog-children + vanquished toy.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Control and the Polyrhythmic Manifestations of Its …
: Links, 02apr2020 Live-action Dr. Mario from a Japanese commercial for Dr. Mario World, via Supper Mario Broth. You …
: Lawnmowing season = podcast-listening season. Though I have quite a backlog, feel free to send me …
: EarBliss, 04apr2020… WE ARE SENT HERE BY HISTORY, by Shabaka and the Ancestors.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Emergent Reflections from a Cracked Funhouse Mirror
: Current site thinking (just to get it out of my head): though I like the text-only iteration of …
: An effort to beat SUPER MARIO BROS. 1, 2, and 3 on the NES Classic: two or three decades later, the …
: EarBliss 01apr2020… INVISIBLE CITIES II, by Aidan Baker & Gareth Davis.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Recommended Light Quarantine Reading / Beware the Fools …
: Just another morning at Fort Puppers.
: A Blank Drawn / Months-Long Snow Day / Le Carré — Parenthetical Recluse.
: Current rotation, 30mar2020.
: LinkExhaust 30mar2020 For Over 30 Years Itsuo Kobayashi Has Been Keeping an Illustrated Food Diary, via Spoon & …
: Judging by the sights and sounds surrounding me in shelter-in-place heartlandia, I’m convinced that …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Negative Data and Embedded Bluetooth/Fingerprick …
: Newsletter 0095 is in the wild. The day awaits.
: LinkExhaust 28mar2020 London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics During the Great Plague …
: When the world goes mad, the only addition to a writing sanctum that makes sense is a NES/SNES Mini …
: Update: this iteration of the working schedule seems to, gasp, work. Having The Book as the last …
: EarBliss, 28mar2020… THREE, by The Necks. (The world may be falling apart but at least we …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Continued Efforts at Pre/Postprandial Workflow Symmetry …
: Quoted: David Bowie “I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. …
: This morning, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep27mar2020.
: On the bright side of an otherwise abysmal writing day, I learned that the morning’s efforts at …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Routine Maintenance in the Creative Wasteland
: Quoted: Henry James, 1882 “If I can only concentrate myself: this is the great lesson of life. I have hours of …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On RSS, Discipline, and 40+hrs of ASSASSIN’S …
: LinkExhaust, 24mar2020 The Haunting Dark Ambient of the Cryo Chamber Label Spans Galaxies, via Bandcamp. Richard Deakin’s …
: Finding that my path to a sanity is joined by first turning off news alerts. And reading George …
: EarBliss, 24mar2020: AFTER DARK, by Forest Management.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… UZUMAKI.
: EarBliss 23mar2020-2… MUSIC FOR DETUNED PIANOS, by Max de Wardener and Kit Downes.
: EarBliss, 23mar2020: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Soundtrack, by Ennio Morricone.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… ONCE UPON A TIME in Inspirational Refueling.
: Izzy’s good with the stay at home order.
: Newsletter 0094 is in the wild; the week is done. Here we go again.
: EarBliss, 22mar2020… SIRENS (deluxe), by Nicolas Jaar.
: Collections of officially licensed Mario and Donkey Kong porcelain figures, via Supper Mario Broth.
: Update: Marley and Exercise Ball continue their begrudging detente.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…The Ballad of Quasi-Agoraphobic Thought Amelioration.
: COVID-19 Surveillance Must Not Be Used as an Excuse to Entrench Surveillance, via Just Security.
: COVID-19 Diabetes Supply Chain Updates, via Beyond Type 1.
: Sanity required that I shift back to Micro-exclusivity. I’m afraid you’re stuck with me.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep20Mar2020.
: EarBliss, 19mar2020… ON MY ONES—EP, by Alfa Mist.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Inchoate Patterns of Borderless Nebulae.
: Native American tribe takes trailblazing steps to fight Covid-19 outbreak, via The Guardian.
: Dead Sea Scroll fragments in The Museum of the Bible found to be fake, via Phys.Org.
: Groomed Dog-Children, though we had to coax them with carrots to get this shot.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I Can’t Come Up With A Title for This One So This …
: Update: thanks to avoiding the governor’s briefing and its attendant anxiety surge I managed to get …
: Current rotation, 17mar2020…
: Plague Doctor Costumes, via The Public Domain Review.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… One Foot, Another. Repeat
: EarBliss, 16mar2020-2… LIVE IN HEALDSBURG, by Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch.
: The Coronavirus, Emergency Powers, and the Military: What You Need to Know, via Just Security.
: This morning, at Parenthetical Recluse… Lockdown and Other Buckeye CoronaThoughts
: EarBliss, 16mar2020… WILDLIFE, by Warmth.
: Hoping that the new indoor gill-babies (transplants from my wife’s corona-vacated classroom) don’t …
: Highlights of Expert Panel on COVID-19 from Harvard, MIT, Mass General, via Just Security.
: News alerts: off. News/comms check timeblocking: set. Sanity: thankful.
: Newsletter 0093 is in the wild. The week is done; the day’s run awaits.
: Today I learned that it’s not wise to do DIY auto body repair while wearing a smartwatch. The auto …
: On Digital Minimalism and Pandemics, via Cal Newport.
: Useful guides to navigate the current moment - and those yet to come.
: One of those days that reminds me that the creative process, no matter the medium, is like that …
: Finished Shoshanna Zuboff’s THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: will write more once I’ve processed …
: Original Super Mario Bros. illustrations found in a 1985 Famicom picture book from Japan, via Supper …
: A Glass Jug That Looks Like Running Water Designed by Jin Kuramoto, via Spoon & Tamago.
: A three-week+ spring break for my wife (and all of her colleagues and students). A relief. The …
: Retooling my work schedule / routine to focus solely on the things I want to accomplish. Though I …
: EarBliss, 11mar2020… THE WORD AS POWER, by Lustmord.
: The Disgruntled Morkie, post-impromptu sink bath; the allure of something to roll in in the backyard …
: Started the third season of CASTLEVANIA: so good to have it back. Great series.
: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853), via The …
: Any bit of promise is worth investigating. Fascinating read: Will ViaCyte’s Encaptra Cell Delivery …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Quieter Internet / Personal Digital Scarcity / …
: First afternoon working with my new TWSBI ECO fountain pen. I might already be in love.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… WearyBleary Ambient Monday ThoughtBuffet
: EarBliss, 09mar2020… ASTORIA, by The OO-Ray.
: Great profile of one of my favorite bands, Algiers, via The Washington Post.
: Newsletter 0092 is in the digital ether; the week is done, another begins. (Piss off, daylight …
: Wild and Mythical New Bricolage Paintings by Yusuke Asai, via Spoon & Tamago.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of These Nightstand Excursions into Kirby’s Fourth …
: Updated guide to my online existence.
: EarBliss, 07mar2020… WINTER DRONES, by An Imaginal Space.
: The ceramic art of Eduard Stellmacher, via { feuilleton }.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Shakyshake.
: EarBliss, 06mar2020… SESSION ONE — EP, by Ariana van Gelder and Arseni Troitski.
: Happy news for today: Amazon Set To Bring Back Cult Sketch Series ‘The Kids In The Hall’, via …
: RIP, my beloved Lamy Safari: you took one fall too many. Using Pentel Kerry 0.7mm mechanical pencil …
: Edouard Joseph d’Alton’s Illustrations of Animal Skeletons (1821–1838), via The Public Domain …
: EarBliss, 04mar2020… ANTHROPOCENE, by Dead Melodies and Zenjungle.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse: treasures (re)discovered and memories confirmed… Of …
: Reading, 03mar2020; my complete reading list - from the present back through 2013 - lives here. 📚
: New tiny 44 million year old bird fossil links Africa and Asia to Utah, via Phys.Org.
: Political prognostication: “the race is reset” will be the dominant headline every 10-15 minutes …
: Newsletter 0091 is in the wild; the next Parenthetical Recluse piece, on my first time reading …
: A successful excursion for this particular Dick Tracy fanatic.
: Trying out Feedbin: loving it so far - will most likely make the switch.
: ”When I got together 300 bucks – which took a while – I went to the bank and withdrew it all in …
: The Internet Archive’s VHS Vault will send you on a 90s nostalgia trip, via The Verge.
: Any recommendations for making RSS feeds from Instagram profiles?
: The (mainstream) social plug is pulled: Twitter and Instagram sabbaticals initiated, leaving only …
: EarBliss🎵, 28feb2020: COMPANION RISES, by Six Organs of Admittance.
: The poster art of Josef Vyletal, via {feuilleton}.
: While Nir Eyal’s INDISTRACTIBLE has some useful information, the dust jacket is so distracting that …
: Cults and Conservatives Spread Coronavirus in South Korea, via Foreign Policy.
: EarBliss, 27feb2020: DUST, by Noisetheorem.
: Butler’s DAWN is one of my favorite books. Looking forward to this. Victoria Mahoney, Ava DuVernay …
: 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 …
: EarBliss, 26feb2020 / WILD WILD EAST, by Sunny Jain.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse: on running, depression, and the onslaught of …
: My rough drafts are cesspools of ellipses.
: In the midst of primary season, I find an antique ballot box with a pterodactyl bursting forth to be …
: EarBliss, 25feb2020-2 / AUX PIEDS DE LA NUIT, by Nyx Nótt.
: EarBliss, 25feb2020 / THE LOST VOICES OF HAGIA SOPHIA, by Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas.
: Weekend antique mall find: RED BARRY, ACE DETECTIVE, a 1935 Big Little Book featuring a DICK TRACY …
: EarBliss, 23feb2020 / AGOST, by Edu Comelles.
: Newsletter 0090 is in the wild: the week is done.
: I never thought that my ideal workspace would include an inaccurate though nevertheless cool-looking …
: Started watching A MOST WANTED MAN last night: great film – and a reminder of how much I still miss …
: Additions to the to-read stack.
: T1D + cold temperatures + CGM = a plate-spinning act while walking on shards of glass.
: Had a “glad that I wrote this but I don’t want to do this every day” moment after finishing today’s …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… CRIME IN PROGRESS / A Roadmap to the Madness.
: Three officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros eraser sets from Japan, via Supper Mario Broth.
: EarBliss, 18feb2020 / RACHAEL & VILRAY, by Rachael and Vilray.
: An exhausted dog-child after his annual vet checkup; it only took five minutes to negotiate his exit …
: Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century), via The Public Domain Review.
: Finished the first volume of Matt Fraction and Elsa Charretier’s NOVEMBER last night: loved …
: The inordinate fear that I spelled the ANIMATION of my book’s title AMINATION across all social …
: A glimpse of the Japanese Jazz Age, via Tokyo Fashion.
: Among the antique mall faces.
: EarBliss, 15feb2020 / NEBULOUS SEQUENCES, by hakobune.
: Think I’m going to make a change to weekly public essay / private newsletter release schedule: …
: EarBliss, 14feb2020 / LOOM, by Katie Gately.
: More intrigued by NO TIME TO DIE than most of the recent Bond films; Billie Eilish’s theme song …
: Meanwhile, in life as a hostage to insulin manufacturers news… “The boom times of insulin …
: Most important KaijuDesk feature: plenty of room for brain-trust sleeping quarters.
: Though iA Writer has been my go-to-workhorse for years (and likely will be for years to come), being …
: The day’s excitement: an effort to make my phone as boring as possible.
: EarBliss, 12feb2020 / SOLO, by Vijay Iyer.
: Retooled my site a bit in the wake of my switch from daily to weekly posting: only the latest post …
: A fascinating look at how open-world sandboxes like GTAV have become canvases for art and for …
: As the forever campaign drags on, McKay Coppins’s latest in The Atlantic, “The Billion-Dollar …
: Current rotation, 11feb2020…
: ”My own works, far from smiling on me, irritate me every single time I go over them again.” — …
: Because when your new desk is too big to fit through your old office’s door and you build a new …
: EarBliss, 10feb2020-PM / SEPARATION SONGS, by Matt Sargent.
: ”The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if …
: EarBliss, 10feb2020 / THE HUMAN HEART, by April Larson.
: Spent part of the afternoon visiting with Chloe, my 150-pound Newfy friend. The dog-children are not …
: Finished Murakami’s KILLING COMMENDATORE. First impression / one sentence review: it’s not as …
: EarBliss, 09feb2020 / YOU WANT IT DARKER, by Leonard Cohen… one of those mornings; Mr Cohen …
: Another newsletter released into the wild; the week is done.
: The week’s Informality: done. Next, the newsletter. Then: run in 6.5-mile circle… the day …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse: considering the intersection of speechwriting and my desire to …
: EarBliss, 08feb2020 / WE’RE NEW AGAIN: A REIMAGINING BY MAKAYA MCCRAVEN, by Gil Scott-Heron and …
: Weather report, afternoon edition (with dog).
: EarBliss, 07feb2020 / MASSIVE OSCILLATIONS — EP, by Wacław Zimpel: rhythmic drone jazz, The Necks …
: Just watched Lynch’s WHAT DID JACK DO?: I have no idea what I saw, but I know that I saw it.
: EarBliss, 06feb2020 / MATANË MALIT, by Elina Duni Quartet - spent all morning listening to her work; …
: That feeling when you throw out the words and the patterns that don’t work and feel as though you …
: EarBliss, 05feb2020 / GHOSTEEN, by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
: If this trend of remaking/remastering games past brings me a next-gen original DEUS EX, I’m all in.
: Because I am devoted to giving you stirring content, an update: the extra-fine point fountain nib is …
: First frisbee game of 2020: ten years old and still his favorite thing in the world.
: EarBliss, 03feb2020 / DAYLIGHT GHOSTS, by Craig Taborn.
: Inordinately excited by the impending arrival of an extra fine-point fountain pen nib. May my …
: And it has, thankfully, “achieved support.” Someone’s designed a nifty Untitled Goose Game …
: Both the week’s Informality and the week’s newsletter are in the wild; this was a good morning - a …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse: On form, Le Guin, Bowie, show trials, and THE FAR SIDE; the …
: EarBliss, 02feb2020 / UNPREDICTABLE SIGNS, by Kloob.
: ”… how incredibly much we learn between our birthday and last day — from where the horsies …
: EarBliss, 01feb2020 / GREEN AND GREY (EXPANDED), by Julia Kent.
: Making time to watch the unwatched and never-seen among my various/nefarious watchlists. First up: …
: EarBliss, 31jan2020 / THE FLOWER AND THE VESSEL, by Felicia Atkinson.
: First time using the Forest timer app for working and I haven’t killed a tree — yet. So far, my …
: Finally playing ASSASSIN’S CREED: ODYSSEY: entertaining mix of WITCHER 3 and TOMB RAIDER series. …
: Unearthed: the totality of 90s superhero comics storytelling in one cover.
: “When the soul is without a definite aim, she gets lost; for, as they say, if you are …
: EarBliss, 30jan2020 / YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE, by Carla dal Forno.
: Taking a wrist-cyborg sabbatical. Series 3 becoming too slow, refusing to update, and not making …
: First morning in over a year where I worked only on what I wanted to work on and not what I felt I …
: EarBliss, 29jan2020 / 10 YEARS SOLO LIVE, by Brad Mehldau.
: EarBliss, 28jan2020-PM… THE SPACE BETWEEN US, by Ida Toninato and Jennifer Thiessen.
: Current rotation, 28jan2020…
: Sneezing in the middle of a supine twist is quite unpleasant.
: First morning without publishing a daily blog post / essay in almost a year: strange for now, but I …
: EarBliss, 28jan2020/A… MEGALITHEON, by Paleowolf. (The lapsed percussionist in me is …
: the onions, the onions, oh god the onions
: Ursula K. Le Guin’s NO TIME TO SPARE is a delight, a potent reminder of the gift of her words.
: This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… as one creative experiment ends, a new one begins: …
: EarBliss, 27jan2020/AM… ALLEGORICAL TRACES, PT.1, by Alio Die.
: A solid list to facilitate T1D sanity, via Beyond Type One.
: Emily Dickinson and Jack Kirby are sharing my nightstand; what a conversation that would be.
: Newsletter 0086 is in the wild; and there was much rejoicing (RIP, Terry Jones).
: EarBliss, 26jan2020/AM… THE INVISIBLE LIGHT: ACOUSTIC SPACE, by T Bone Burnett, Jay …
: Because every desk needs a gold-plated monk riding a chartreuse triceratops.
: Current (ohdeargod the world is a terrifying place but at least it’s a world where Jack Kirby made …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Primary Visions
: EarBliss, 25jan2020-AM… LIVING SPACE, by ELEH.
: Pretty sure that The Jorkie could pull off the Bosch-dog headpiece look.
: Finally finished season five of PEAKY BLINDERS. First impression: started strong but fizzled out. …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On Adapting to Adaptations
: EarBliss, 24jan2020/AM… PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by Caterina Barbieri.
: (The) Morkie v. paper towel roll.
: I’ve been far too socialized this week. Reversion to feral form likely.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes on Bedtime Screen-Reading AKA Dispatches from the …
: EarBliss, 23jan2020/AM… BRAHMS: STRING QUARTETS AND PIANO QUINTET, by Emerson String Quartet …
: Finished Atwood’s THE TESTAMENTS last night: in spite of a somewhat rushed ending, I think it’s her …
: EarBliss, 22jan2020/PM… SEX, by The Necks.
: An invaluable lesson, re-learned: it’s the not the pretzels that go in the refrigerator but the …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Positively an Ode to My Jackass Immune System
: EarBliss, 22jan2020/AM… PHILIP GLASS: MISHIMA, by Maki Namekawa.
: EarBliss, 21jan2020/PM… LOOK UP SHARP, by Carla dal Forno.
: Whenever I consider taking the daily pieces weekly and/or the weekly newsletter monthly, I …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Things I Keep on My Wrist, Currently
: EarBliss, 21jan2020/AM… WE GATHERED AT WAKEROBIN HOLLOW~CHAPTER 01 - EP, by Mending. (The …
: EarBliss, 20jan2020/PM… FAREWELL, DOOMED PLANET!, by Elizabeth Joan Kelly.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… ThoughtBuffet, 20jan2020
: EarBliss, 20jan2020/AM.. ON TIME OUT OF TIME, by William Basinski.
: It’s cold enough that the dog-children emerged from their blanket forts on the couch only when they …
: Sunday visit / faux cat selfie
: Current rotation, 19jan2020…
: Newsletter 0085 is in the wild. The week is done.
: They’re certain that their mother just woke up.
: EarBliss, 19jan2020/AM… THE WHITE HORSE OF THE SUN, by David Terry and Eye Spirit.
: Typing = excavation / writing by hand = taking a brush to what was found.
: In brightest day, in blackest night…
: On to GEARS OF WAR 2: finally played the first one a few months back to see what I was missing. I’ve …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Into these refuges of time and sanity
: EarBliss, 18jan20/AM… SATIE: SOCRATE, by Barbara Hannigan and Reinbert de Leeuw.
: (This week, man, this week.)
: EarBliss, 17jan20/PM… THERE IS NO YEAR, the latest album from one of my favorite bands, …
: ”Challenging music, by its very nature, alienates some fans whilst inspiring others, but without …
: EarBliss, 17jan2020/AM… CONTINUUM, by Nik Bärstch’s Mobile.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Anniversaries / THE WITCHER / Fresh ink
: Fresh ink / Because when it came time to finish my Shadow/fountain pen/Bride of Frankenstein lab …
: Fresh ink and sleeve completion awaits.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Towards a quieter personal internet, again
: EarBliss, 16jan2020/AM… TEMPORAL, by Julia Kent.
: Retrieved a cache of toys from under the couch and the dog-children are ecstatic. Dog-dad powers, …
: EarBliss, 15jan2020/PM… IV, by Innercity Ensemble.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of order and chaos
: EarBliss, 15jan2020/AM: TRILOGIE DE LA MORT, by Eliane Radigue.
: EarBliss, 14jan2020/PM: COLOUR, by Anat Fort Trio.
: The house mouse continues its winning streak in our battle of wills. The war rages on.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Hypo/hyper BBC Dracula etc etc
: EarBliss, 14jan2020: ECSTATIC COMPUTATION, by Caterina Barbieri.
: EarBliss, 13jan2020/PM… JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA, by Alice Coltrane; BADGE ÉPOQUE ENSEMBLE, …
: Current rotation, 13jan2020.
: EarBliss, 13jan2020/AM… SAMAN, by Hildur Guðnadóttir; ALL MY PEOPLE, by Maria Somerville; …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On JOKER
: Because the secret to my (occasional) online sanity bears repeating: The Far Side.
: Newsletter 0084 is in the wild; the week is done.
: EarBliss, 12jan2020/AM… CODEX, by Atrium Carcieri; JOKER: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK, …
: All I really want is the Criterion Channel to come to XBox so I can pay money to get annoyed about …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Escaping the escape room of future’s tradition
: EarBliss, 11jan2020/AM… SATIE: THE EARLY PIANO WORKS, by Reinbert de Leeuw.
: Only been here a short time, but this space is already becoming an essential part of my day and my …
: EarBliss, 10jan2020/PM: KOMACHI, by Meitei; CLIODYNAMICS-EP, by Astrid Sonne; HIGH LINE, by SUSS.
: Hatching my election year online sanity-survival plan which, so far, involves fleeing the mainstream …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of rain and a practice resumed
: EarBliss 10jan2020/AM: THE GROUND OUR SKY, by Saariselka; AZATHOTH, a dark ambient collaboration …
: That moment when you start to open a container of bacon bits but recall that you perhaps, maybe, …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Towards a saner personal internet, maybe
: EarBliss, 09jan2020/AM: AN ARK FOR THE LISTENER, by Philip Jeck; BECOME DESERT, by John Luther …
: Feeling the Force, approximately.
: EarBliss, 08jan2020/PM: ATLANTIS NATH, by Terry Riley.
: Current rotation, 08jan2020.
: EarBliss, 08jan2020/AM: UPROOTED, by Michel Banabila; PROMITAT ETERNO, by Bastarda.
: Morning sanity fix: saving The Far Side RSS feed for last.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I read the news (with breakfast, again), oh boy
: EarBliss, 07jan2020/PM: THE UNDIVIDED FIVE, by A Winged Victory for the Sullen; BLOOM, by Areni …
: Highlight of the week so far: making really tasty cauliflower chowder.
: EarBliss, 07jan2020/AM: BLACK CORNER DEN, by Atrium Carcieri and Cities Last Broadcast; EPISTASIS …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Returning: rhythm of the day, slowly
: As I attempt to outwit this mouse, an acceptance that I am in danger of becoming Bill Murray in …
: Brief intro time... … and a chance to experiment with longer posts here. Hi, I’m Tyler. Over the last 15+ …
: ”I have to write, but in such a way as to vouch for nothing; I shall always be seeking, mostly …
: Meanwhile, in Informalities… Beware the Five Beeps…
: And it appears that I’ve got the custom domain thing working… maybe. If so, nifty.
: Newsletter 0083 is in the wild. And there was much rejoicing.
: Starting the process of using a custom domain here, I think. Or screwing it all up. One or the …
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Revisitation: BLADE RUNNER
: As it’s enough to deal with T1D on a daily basis, I may start handing out this article instead of …
: Blu bargain bin bounty / I also win the day in alliteration:
: Not the best timing, App Store push notification.
: (And I finally got the posting right on that last one. Apologies for the repeats.)
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…ThoughtBuffet 03jan2020
: To-read stack at the start of 2020; might be gone by the turn of the next decade. The game is afoot.
: Hitchcock sequel in heartlandia this morning.
: It is mine / AKA my mother-in-law is awesome.
: Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes on Stoic Green Lantern Hostage Negotiation / …