Chatted with my best friend from music school for the first time in almost 15 years. Damn, I missed him.

Watching, 06may2020: SANSHIRO SUGATA, dir. Akira Kurosawa (1943).

Jedi Jorkie.

Finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s THE NAMESAKE: her place among my favorite authors remains a fortified station. Brilliant, moving book.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Returning to the Broadcast Woodshed.

After a few weeks, I’ve reached the “upgrade to annual subscription” stage of love with Drafts.

Ingenious: ‘The Blacklist’ Uses Graphic Novel-Style Animation To Finish Season 7 Finale Cut Short By COVID-19 Shutdown, via Deadline.

I Spy podcast: The Survivor, via Foreign Policy.

A Trove of Counterfeit Middle Eastern Antiquities Intercepted at Heathrow Points to a New Front in the War Against Art Scammers, Experts Say, via artnet.

Classic GREEN LANTERN Duo MARZ & BANKS Return to Shine the Green Light On KYLE RAYNER’s Rookie Year, via Newsarama.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer begins testing coronavirus vaccine in people, via The Washington Post.

Archaeology offers clues to pandemic rebounds from the past, via phys.org.

Stunning: Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906), via The Public Domain Review.

On the eventual project/experiential toiling docket: podcasting and microcasting. Produced one long ago, and miss interviewing cool people. Also want to experiment a bit with the form, see what messes I can make.

Oh, Lamy 2000, you will soon be mine.

Tuesday.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…Of Mask-Outings and Babu Frik Midpoints.

Reading, 04may2020.

Day one of Ohio’s “Responsible Re-Start” and I’ve been hearing sirens all morning. Let the good times roll, I suppose.

EarBliss, 04may2020: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, by Angelo Badalamenti.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brief Notes on Finishing: Montaigne / WESTWORLD.

Wrote a log line for the first time in more than a decade and it’s not awful. (Pats back, returns to work.)

It’s taken three years and more than a few sticky tabs, but I’ve finished reading Montaigne’s Complete Essays.

Looters Are Taking Advantage of the Worldwide Lockdown to Rob Cultural Heritage Sites—and Selling Their Stolen Wares on Facebook, via artnet News.

Covid-19’s future: small outbreaks, monster wave, or ongoing crisis, via STAT News.

Brad Bird Gets Animated About Musicals as New Host of TCM’s ‘The Essentials’, via IndieWire.

Biden campaigns from his basement. Harding ran for president from his porch, via The Washington Post.

The newsletter is in the ether and the week is done. Back to work.

Good morning.