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Bags 18-21.

This week, at Parenthetical Recluse…Trust: Process/Self/Pterodactyl.

…(if only for myself): I don’t hate Twitter, I see its value – I wouldn’t have a career without it, at least as it, Twitter or my career, used to be – but, given my current projects workload, I don’t have the capacity to keep myself mentally in check if I do partake. Weekly Informality incoming.

Fifty years of Robert Caro’s reporting notes going public, via Nieman Storyboard

“The man who vowed to be a president of law and order failed to enforce the law or restore order. The man who has always seen himself as the protector of uniformed police sat idly by as Capitol Police officers were outnumbered, outmaneuvered, trampled on — and in one case, killed. And the man who had long craved the power of the presidency abdicated many of the responsibilities of the commander in chief.” - Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol, via The Washington Post.

Samuel G. Szábo’s Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857), via The Public Domain Review.

Bethesda is making an Indiana Jones game, via The Verge.

An Intimate Photographic Series Glimpses the Lives of the Children Who Fish in Ghana’s Lake Volta, via Colossal.

Bags 16-17.

Incitement Timeline: Year of Trump’s Actions Leading to the Attack on the Capitol, via Just Security.

“‘As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on,’ Sund said. ‘Violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear — climbing gear! — explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington.'"- Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard, via The Washington Post.

South Korea Unveils Inflatable Isolation Ward for COVID-19 Patients, via Medscape.

There’s an alternative to impeachment or 25th Amendment for Trump, historians say, via The Washington Post.

Barton’s GIRI/HAJI is one of my favorites - looking more forward to this than I was: ‘The Batman’: Joe Barton Joins HBO Max’s TV Series As Showrunner Following Terence Winter Departure, via Deadline.

My wife takes her Lego Super Mario very seriously.

Greatest Batmobile build resumes: Bag 15.

Before Mob Stormed the Capitol, Days of Security Planning Involved Cabinet Officials and President Trump, via ProPublica.

“Whatever the peculiarities (and undoubted deficiencies) of the processes prescribed by the Constitution for translating the votes of the people into a choice of the person who is to be president, the choice, once made, is sacrosanct. To contrive at undoing it – whether by promulgating and endorsing baseless allegations of national fraud, pressuring state officials to overturn lawful and accurate election results, or summoning a mob to intimidate Congress – is to thrust a knife into the vibrant heart of the American idea and the Constitution that governs it.": The Constitutional Case for Impeaching Donald Trump (Again), via Just Security.

After 50 years, the Pentagon Papers give up their final secrets, via The Guardian.

Conchology, or, the Natural History of Shells: Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations from the World’s First Pictorial Encyclopedia of Mollusks, via Brain Pickings.

Finally feel like I’ve hit the sweet spot as to the interaction between this blog, my main site, and the newsletter.

Putting the finishing touches on this week’s MacroParentheticals dispatch: beware stray mind-cats.

A Pulsating Light Room of Multi-Layered Glass by Claudia Bueno to Premiere at Meow Wolf Las Vegas, via Colossal.

Q&A with Steve Vladeck and Rolf Mowatt Larssen on Democracy, Insurrection, and Where We Go from Here, via Just Security.

[Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump](https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html), via Twitter.

Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet, via The Verge.

LEGO Amelia Earhart Tribute (40450) Set Coming in 2021, via The Brick Fan.

Hedgehog Mobile Home Lets You Carry Your Pet Pygmy Wherever You Go, via Spoon & Tamago.

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 Lego truck Christmas present.

Cross-posting disabled, Twitter sabbatical initiated: you’re stuck with me, Micro.

Rumored LEGO Star Wars Death Star with 11,000 Pieces, via The Brick Fan.

Meticulously Sculpted and Tarnished Dandelions Preserve the Herb’s Ephemeral Nature in Metal, via Colossal.

Here’s a closer look at what Hitman 3 will look like in virtual reality, via The Verge.

Denmark launches children’s TV show about man with giant penis, via The Guardian.

Early Use of High-Titer Plasma May Prevent Severe COVID-19, via Medscape.

Russian national gets 12 years in prison for major hacks hitting JPMorgan Chase and others, via The Washington Post.

Another life-saving treatment is found for covid-19, via The Economist.

My Gender Is Masha Gessen, via The Paris Review.

iA Writer’s highlight function has become essential to my working and thinking on-screen. Easily the best addition they’ve added to an already-great program.

(Also) Reading - and it’s absolutely brilliant.

Consider me on the bandwagon: COBRA KAI is excellent.

Bag four / build complete.

This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Form and THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT.