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 up to the meaning of my first name.
Daily running route yard signage report for 12aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/Harris signs (+/-0); 82 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of VPs, Comics, and Life Ransoms.
EarBliss, 12aug2020: PENELOPE ONE, by Penelope Trappes - thanks to Elizabeth Joan Kelly for recommending Trappes’s work via her new internet radio show, ElectroJunkyard.
Making Wednesdays and Sundays comics scripting days is the smartest move I’ve made in a long time: it’s a joy to be working (again) with a medium I hold so dear. Been far too long.
And also in “news that makes for a good day”: my wife knocked it out of the birthday gift park.
Biden/Harris: YES.
Daily running route yard signage report for 11aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/TBA signs (+/-0); 83 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Backyard, 11aug2020.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bookends Return.
Daily running route yard signage report for 10aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden/TBA signs (+/-0); 84 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.
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), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 85 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
My wife is reading Darwyn Cooke’s NEW FRONTIER for the first time. I’m envious: that’s one I wish I could experience for the first time every time I read it.
Issue 0016 of MacroParentheticals is on its way to inboxes; the week is done / the week begins. Back to work.
Main thing keeping me from using iA Writer as my main online writing tool: unlike Drafts, the sync between the phone, tablet, and Mac, is excruciatingly slow. Drafts is almost instantaneous. I’ll stick with iA Writer for unplugged, long-form writing, and Drafts for online writing.
Marley approves.
Backyard patio work continues.
Daily running route yard signage report for 08aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 86 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Bricks and Hyperglycemic TimeTasks.
Daily running route yard signage report for 07aug2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 87 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
A tow truck towing a school bus greeted me at the outset of the morning’s run. An ominous - and appropriate -symbol of the upcoming Back-to-School: Plague Edition disaster in real-time about to unfold.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Year 39, Attained.