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Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Retreating Into the Parenthetical Trinity Again, Maybe, Probably.

The jury.

This week’s MacroParentheticals dispatch is in the ether: the week is done. And there was much rejoicing (yay).

Important news: I have given the Dog-Children their own channel at MicroParentheticals. Carry on.

EarBliss, 16may2020/two-fer edition: THE MOSAIC OF TRANSFORMATION, by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / and DEEP THOUKUS, by Deep Thoukus.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… CONTROL / An Informal Dispatch from the Heartlandic Fog.

A new comic (and process sketches) by Nick Sousanis is always reason to celebrate: No Sides, via Nick Sousanis.

Astrid Kirchherr Dies: Beatles Photographer, MopTop Inspiration Was 81, via Deadline.

How Animation Saved ‘The Blacklist’ Season 7 Finale During Lockdown, via IndieWire.

“Prior assumptions about our business no longer apply”: Cuts pile up at Vice, Quartz, The Economist, BuzzFeed, and Condé Nast, via Nieman Journalism Lab.

Reopening Hollywood: Michael Mann On Resuming Ansel Elgort-Ken Watanabe HBO Max Drama ‘Tokyo Vice;’ And What About That ‘Heat’ Prequel?, via Deadline.

I derive a ridiculous amount of comfort from David Lynch’s daily weather report.

I always knew my wife was a remarkable teacher but little did I know that she was also a gifted soothsayer. As evidence, her final vocabulary list before the pandemic shutdown.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Daylight Encroaches / Neighborly Proximity / THE SEVENTH SEAL.

‘Morning.

Here comes the drop(kick): The sick beats in ‘Streets of Rage’, via The Washington Post.

Electronic Sound and ANTI: Music Review on Retrophonica, via Elizabeth Joan Kelly.

Currently playing CONTROL; it’ll be fun to revisit WAKE: Alan Wake comes to Game Pass for its 10th anniversary, via Polygon.

EarBliss, 14may2020: LIVE IN WILLISAU, by James Brandon Lewis and Chad Taylor.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Handwritten InLawn and Other Experiments.

Arlington Cemetery’s 105-year-old time capsule is revealing lost treasures, via The Washington Post.

‘How This Moment Will Be Misremembered’: An Internet Theorist on What Social-Media Images Hide About the Pandemic, via artnet.

Wong Kar-Wai ‘In the Mood for Love’ Sequel Blossoms Ready to Film, via IndieWire.

David Lynch’s Weather Report 5/13/20.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Bullet Journal Experiment Begins / Lamy 2000 Love Continues.

These Companies Got Millions in Tax Breaks to Bring Jobs to Youngstown. They Created Next to None, via ProPublica.

Bookshop, a new startup, is offering publications bigger kickbacks than Amazon (and the thrill of battling Bezos), via Nieman Journalism Lab.

Check out this extremely detailed image of Rembrandt’s Night Watch painting, via The Verge.

The Pandemic Is Laying Bare a Global Water Crisis, via Foreign Policy.

Tinkering with a hybrid/bastardized (read: making this up as I go along, using general guidelines to figure my own variation) bullet journal addition to my regular journaling practice. So far: useful. Nice to have a place to keep blood sugar records in my main journal.

Now that the Criterion Channel has arrived on XBox, I need something else missing from my life to randomly, pointlessly screech about every six months or so. Current front-runner: since everything’s getting remastered anyhow, I need a remastered DEUS EX.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Dispatches on (Another) Postprandial Void.