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Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Mirror Shards and Popcorn.

Goodbye, Government. Hello, Mafia, via Foreign Policy.

What Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League is rumored to add to the original, via Polygon.

In Nolan I trust… New TENET trailer.

A Zoo in Japan is Using Stuffed Animal Capybaras to Maintain Social Distancing, via Spoon & Tamago.

Possibly the reason for today’s Criterion-on-Xbox woes? Xbox Live down as Microsoft experiences ‘multiple’ service outages, via The Verge.

Accepting the reign of my hosta overlords.

My first afternoon of precious solitude in weeks and the Criterion Channel XBox app goes wonky. Maybe someday, PERSONA. Maybe someday.

Casting my book recommendation into Micro-verse with my reading list from the last seven years. Most recent mentally/emotionally transformative read: a tie between Jhumpa Lahiri’s THE NAMESAKE and Paul Auster’s 4321.

Status, 22may2020.

EarBliss, 22may2020: GHOSTS V: TOGETHER / GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS, by Nine Inch Nails.

Parenthetical Update, 22may2020: Drafts for the Apple Watch is brilliant but I’ll have to reinstall Just Press Record for daily run thought-exorcism: forgot that Drafts uses Apple’s dictation, so a network connection is required. Oops.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brain Defragmentation, In Progress / Wrist-Cyborg, V2.0.

Current rotation, 21may2020.

Groomed Jorkie / Groomed Morkie

Trying out Drafts on Apple Watch: you may consider me a happy wrist-cyborg again.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 21may2020.

Now IDW Lets Go Of Employees, Permanently, via Bleeding Cool.

A German Student Broke Into an Australian Natural History Museum to Take Selfies With Dinosaur Skeletons, via artnet.

‘Justice League’ #TheSnyderCut Headed To HBO Max In 2021, via Deadline.

Exclusive First Look at New Photograph of Blues Legend Robert Johnson, via Vanity Fair.

Also in kitchen musings: over the last several months, I’ve developed a craving for smoked paprika. Probably a heretofore-unknown corona-symptom, but whatever: the more paprika, the happier I am.

Some might call it a hammer wrapped in aluminum foil. I call it my essential meal prep device/meat tenderizer AKA Improvised Heartlandic Mjolnir.

Status, 20may2020.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bullet Journal Week / DEEP WORK / Wrist-Cyborg Returneth.

Explorers can take Titanic’s Marconi telegraph, cutting into wreck for first time, via The Washington Post.

Stunning COVID Photo of Compassionate Nurse in Austin, via Reading The Pictures.

Superman Advice on Social Distancing is a Tad Unrealistic, via Bleeding Cool.

Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time (1896), via The Public Domain Review.

Took about two months after “The Great Shattering,” but I’m missing my Apple Watch on a “time to get another one” level.

A work in progress, but I finally added a Status page to Parenthetical Recluse.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…CONTROL, Continued.

She posed as a nurse during the 1918 flu pandemic and went on a crime spree, via The Washington Post.

Covid nostra - The pandemic is creating fresh opportunities for organised crime, via The Economist.

Elon Musk is playing Twitter footsie with the fringe right, via The Verge.

Artwork from a 1986 Super Mario Bros. calendar from Japan, via Supper Mario Broth.

She’s a competent official, a rare luxury these days: A white-coated hero or a ‘medical dictator’? Ohio’s Amy Acton inspires admiration, and a backlash, with tough coronavirus response, via The Washington Post.

Latest additions to the to-read stockpile.

The more I consider it, the wiser the retreat into the blog/Micro/newsletter feels. PlagueYear/ElectionYear sanity FTW.