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Don’t define Biden’s victory down, via The Washington Post.

The GSA’s Delay in Recognizing the Biden Transition Team and the National Security Implications, via Just Security.

I took the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine. It’s a miracle for genetic medicine, via The Washington Post.

DC Comics Names Marie Javins Editor-In-Chief, via Deadline.

‘The Outsider’: MRC Shopping Series After HBO Passes On Season 2, via Deadline.

‘A fowl of the law’: men sentenced for cooking chicken in Yellowstone hot spring | Environment | , via The Guardian.

No, Netflix email, I will not finish THE REPAIR SHOP, not until you add more than the first two seasons. I refuse to stare down the void of a REPAIR SHOP-less life and choose instead to savor each and every relaxing morsel of your minuscule offering as a middle finger to you.

From the “on-the-tip-of-my-tongue-but” department: what’s the term for a quoted passage that precedes a work?

About 3/4 of the way through Nick Bostrom’s SUPERINTELLIGENCE: I understand maybe a tenth of it but I’m terrified by all of it.

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 weird, macabre Christmas fairy tale - Kelley Jones art brought to life.

Neighborhood watch, camouflaged.

Thank you, Screen Time, for informing me that my screen time was up 107% last week. Sorta had that one figured.

The 29th and final weekly issue of MacroParentheticals — switching to monthly for the foreseeable future — is on its way to inboxes. Relief, exhaustion, and et cetera abound.

It’s been a very good day.

Glorious.

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 newsletter.

ohthankfuck.

Endorsing bourbon for breakfast.

The final daily running route yard signage report for 03nov2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); the entire 125-day archive lives here.

EarBliss, 02nov2020: SKINS N SLIME, by Oliver Coates.

Daily running route yard signage report for 02nov2020: out of 92 houses, there are 16 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0) in front of 9 houses (+/-0), and 1 Biden/Harris sign (+/-0) in front of 1 house (+/-0); 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.

Reading, 02nov2020…

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 re-frames “Election Day” not as “the day you cast your vote” but as the final day of a set period (ideally, from the Tuesday after Labor Day to Election Day) in which to cast your vote.