Recent text correspondents: my apologies that the extent of my replies has been 👍 or 😎 or a clever, sentiment-appropriate GIF, but words are failing me this week. (This was probably the best thing I’ve written all week.)
Arriving Sunday morning: MacroParentheticals subscribers get early access to RE/EMERGENCE0003, the latest collaborative offering from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and myself. Very excited for you to see this one.
Afternoon work attempt proved a potent reminder of why I don’t work in the afternoons. Duly noted.
Important update: I’ve found my missing shoe.
He’s growing… and growing…
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: What do you wish you had known about having Type One Diabetes before you left the hospital?
Spent the morning with the short stories / ideas folder and managed to get at least one of them to the “I need to write this” stage. Exorcism inbound.
Incoming: featuring new music from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and new words from myself, re/emergence0003 arrives in early access form for newsletter subscribers on Sunday morning…
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, give him another vote’, via The Washington Post.
Making an Album About George Washington Carver Taught James Brandon Lewis About Himself, via Bandcamp Daily.
A Minimalist Tokyo Home With a Sculptural Stairway Connecting Three Floors, via Design Milk.
Wildlife Is Now Thriving Again in Chernobyl–Even If Humans Won’t for Another 24,000 Years, via Open Culture.
Steve Ditko’s Advice to an Aspiring Comic Book Artist in 1973, via Bleeding Cool.
An Artist Created ‘Deep Fake’ Photographs of Vincent van Gogh as an Adult to Show How He May Have Truly Looked, via Artnet News.
Relief that Kirby is willing to treat my mid-afternoon, half-zombified “soccer” (read: tap chewy ball with foot and follow around yard in no specific direction, making occasional stops for Kirby to give said chewy a chew) as “playing.”
Halfway through Kim Stanley Robinson’s THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE and I’m hooked: it’s brilliant, terrifying, and utterly absorbing. A must-read.
After almost a week together, I’m loving the new watch: proving, so far at least, up to the challenge of withstanding both my general idiocy and the daggers of puppy teeth.
New: weekly Informalities make their parenthetical homecoming with 0001 - Returning Forward, on summer story release plans, making sense of a process, and details on just, what, exactly, I’m building in here.
Links, 15may2021
Unexpected Green Hornet Covers From Michael Kaluta Up For Auction, via Bleeding Cool.
Japanese gaming grandpa is tearing up virtual track at age 93, via SoraNews 24.
Beautiful new work from the duo of Elizabeth Joan Kelly and Geiger von Müeller: Sci-Fi Ambient Minimalism: ‘Blue Moon Frequency # 2b [Spring Mix]’ Music Video | Animation World Network, via Animation World Network.
Also from EJK: ElectroJunkyard Episode 6.
‘Morning - Jurassic Park is now open.
