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Links, 18jun2020

Warner Bros, DC To Develop Original Podcasts With Spotify, via Deadline.

Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations, via The Public Domain Review.

A Remarkable Hostage-Like Photograph Showing ‘Proof of Life’ of a Stolen Van Gogh Painting Is Circulating in the Criminal Underworld, via artnet.

‘Making The Cut’ Hosts Tim Gunn & Heidi Klum Play With Fashion Competition Formula After Leaving ‘Project Runway’ Behind, via Deadline.

An Obsession with Retro Japanese Rounded-Corner Windows, via Spoon & Tamago.



Welcome back, Micro. I missed you this morning.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Unmoored / TWICE UPON A TIME.


Back to work.


Links, 17jun2020-B

Topsychopor by Roland Topor, via feuilleton.

North Korea blows up detente with the South, via The Economist.

The Van Gogh Museum Paid $236,000 for a Revealing Letter by Van Gogh and Gauguin About Their Visits to Brothels, via artnet.

Braveheart writer Randall Wallace on the four-hour version we never saw, via Polygon.


Today’s afternoon garden work: we dug up the old stone pathway, mulched (so much mulch), and put the path back in.


Links, 17jun2020-A

Former eBay executives charged with cyberstalking after allegedly sending bloody pig mask to bloggers, via The Washington Post.

Kawanable Kyōsai’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (1890), via The Public Domain Review.

Forgotten Civil War map shows Antietam as a cemetery, via The Washington Post.

The massive power of the George Floyd protests, via Axios.

How — and When — Can the Coronavirus Vaccine Become a Reality?, via ProPublica.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep / Yard Signage Report, 17jun2020


Efforts to shape my day into a useful balance of spinning plates and roles are bearing fruit. All about finding that right rhythm.


Groomed Morkie.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… THE GLASS HOTEL / Bullet Journal Update.


Links, 15jun2020

A plan to turn the atmosphere into one enormous sensor, via The Economist.

How America’s Hospitals Survived the First Wave of the Coronavirus, via ProPublica.

How Muscle Works in Moscow, via Foreign Policy.

PlayStation and Xbox are not in a ‘console war.’ They’re racing in different directions, via The Washington Post.

A Hospital’s Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns, via ProPublica.

New York City Has Salvaged John F. Kennedy’s Lost Navy Patrol Boat From a Cove Off the Coast of Manhattan, via artnet.

New Guidance to Help Manage OCD During COVID-19, via Medscape.

I paid an Etsy psychic to draw my soulmate, via The Verge.


Routine: consider Twitter again - post to Twitter again - remember everyone you interacted with is already on your newsletter list - delete postings - rejoice in having saved yourself the mental slot machine hellscape as you bask in calmer waters - carry on.


Reading, 15jun2020.


Vacuuming day toy protection.


First time using the index part of a bullet journal- my notebooks having metamorphosed into regular/bullet hybrids over the last month - and its potential use, not only as a project/brain guide but as a listing of pervasive thought-patterns and loops to avoid, is intriguing.


Loved KNIVES OUT but THE BROTHERS BLOOM is still my favorite Rian Johnson film.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Have I Accepted My Resignation or Resigned Myself to Acceptance?


The new notebook is bullet-journaled-up and ready to go tomorrow morning.


Guard duty.


The button is pressed: issue 0008 of MacroParentheticals has commenced its inbox-bound journey. The week is done / the day’s run awaits.


Frisbee time.


Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Channels and Frequencies and a Note on a Passing


Links, 12jun2020

Blue Note Classics To Be Updated On New Compilation, via The Quietus.

A Year After It Was Stolen, Banksy’s Paris Mural for the Bataclan Theater Has Been Found in an Italian Farmhouse, via artnet.

“I continue to have nightmares that I still work there”: Many, many journalists speak out about racism in newsrooms across the country, via Nieman Lab.

Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind, via The New York Times.

North Korea Needs to Extort Democracies to Survive, via Foreign Policy.