Daily running route yard signage report for 01aug2020: 110 houses, 7* Tumor/Pestilence signs (-1), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 93 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Blisses Followed and Corkboards Pinned and Etc Etc Etc.
Finally found more Chemex filters. Preparations complete for the next phase of the plague.
Daily running route yard signage report for 31jul2020...
110 houses, 8* Tumor/Pestilence signs (+1), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 94 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.
*a tentative, though not undisturbing addition: a Tumor/Pestilence drawing in sidewalk chalk by the children of one of the Tumor/Pestilence sign-bearers. As the motivation for chalk rendering will remain forever unclear - was it drawn just because the sign was above it and within the kids' field of vision? most likely, but - I’m recording it here for the sake of accurate reflection, in full knowledge that it will vanish in the next rain and was drawn, most likely, in innocence.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Latest Necessity in Educator Back-to-School Supplies: Last Wills & Testaments.
A heartening morning on the podcast thinking front. I miss interviewing people, and seeing that a platform towards doing it again is beginning to take shape is exciting.
Links, 30jul2020
At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks, via The Washington Post.
Biden’s staff must delete TikTok from their personal and work phones, via The Verge.
Anthony Fauci Explains Why the US Still Hasn’t Beaten Covid, via WIRED.
New Batman interactive animated movie will let you kill Robin, via Polygon.
This was the week America lost the war on misinformation, via The Washington Post.
Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State, via The New Yorker.
Mulchapalooza 2020 continues.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… When Eagles Attack / TO:KY:OO.
Finally purchased Liam Wong’s sublime book of Tokyo night photography, TO:KY:OO, and am already in love. A remarkable work of art.
Daily running route yard signage report for 29jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 96 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Horns Honking and Yard Signs Signing.
It’s been a week since I’ve posted to the “big two” social network slot machines and it’s been wonderful. (Recording this here for reference should the urge to crawl back without specific purpose arise.)
Daily running route yard signage report for 28jul2020: 110 houses, 7 Tumor/Pestilence signs (-1), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 97 days and 13 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Selfishly Considering I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK.
Two questions, Micro-verse: one, I’m looking for a good guide to starting a podcast; and two, I’m considering creating a “comment via email” system for my main site. I’m assuming the simplest way is to just make “comment via” a mailto link, but I’m open to other suggestions.
Finally finished Costa-Gavras’s Z: easily one of the best political thrillers I’ve seen - and frighteningly prescient, 50+ years on.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Stable Permutations / MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN.
EarBliss, 27jul2020: ULTRAVIOLET, by Kelly Moran.
Contemplation.
Backyard, 26jul2020.
Links, 26jul2020
Ohio’s businesses were all for mask mandates. Then politics got in the way, via The Washington Post.
Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s true next-gen Xbox, via The Verge.
‘That’s an illegal order’: veterans challenge Trump’s officers in Portland, via The Guardian.
Ancient teeth show history of epidemics is much older than we thought, via The Washington Post.
Portland Protests: Mary Poppins Has Had Enough, via Reading The Pictures.
The shadowlands of language, via The Economist.
Biden’s path to the White House could hit a dead end on Facebook, via The Guardian.
Look at this cool LED face mask made by a fashion entrepreneur, via The Verge.
Reading, 26jul2020…
Daily running route yard signage report for 26july2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 99 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.