As I hacked away at a blameless cauliflower, I realized how much I’ve come to hate cooking and “hate that I hate cooking” over the last several months. This Helen Rosner essay arrived at the right time.

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 the whole of this fucking year.

Groomed and unimpressed Morkie.

Felony Streaming and CASE Act: What You Need to Know, via Copyright Lately.

Bill attacking health department’s COVID-19 power dies, via Ohio Capital Journal.

Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond are finally coming to HBO Max in January, via The Verge.

25 Things I’ve Learned From a Decade of Podcasts, via Ryan Holiday.

Daft Punk releases ‘complete edition’ of their stunning Tron: Legacy score, via The Verge.

In other news, I’ve managed to unstick the front door just in time for its next weather-change-infused warping.

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 towards Kindle for reading. Anyone done this? Thoughts?

Reading:

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Notes on Efforts to Reclaim These Culinary Loves.

Peter Jackson Unveils Intimate First Footage From His Beatles Documentary. via Deadline.

Long-Lost Morricone Score To Get First Commercial Release, via The Quietus.

A covid-19 themed shop in New York is thriving, via The Economist.

The System Is Not Working: The Lopsided Election Result, Not The Courts, Saved Our Democracy, via Just Security.

“If it Hadn’t Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics”: FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny, via Bellingcat.

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; the week ends / the week begins.

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 right thing).