Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Emergent Reflections from a Cracked Funhouse Mirror

Pillow fort.

Current site thinking (just to get it out of my head): though I like the text-only iteration of Parenthetical Recluse, I might bring back the photos for more variety when sharing the pieces to various digital embassies. Black and white only, perhaps. Carry on.

An effort to beat SUPER MARIO BROS. 1, 2, and 3 on the NES Classic: two or three decades later, the muscle memory still holds - though my profanity upon repeated defeat is far more creative.

EarBliss 01apr2020… INVISIBLE CITIES II, by Aidan Baker & Gareth Davis.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Recommended Light Quarantine Reading / Beware the Fools of April.

Just another morning at Fort Puppers.

A Blank Drawn / Months-Long Snow Day / Le Carré — Parenthetical Recluse.

Family meal time.

Current rotation, 30mar2020.

For Over 30 Years Itsuo Kobayashi Has Been Keeping an Illustrated Food Diary, via Spoon & Tamago.

Social Distancing is a Privilege, via Foreign Policy.

Get Shorty at 30: Dennis Lehane on Elmore Leonard’s Hollywood satire, via The Guardian.

Opportunistic Thieves Just Stole a Prized Van Gogh Landscape From a Locked-Down Dutch Museum Under Cover of Night, via artnet.

Judging by the sights and sounds surrounding me in shelter-in-place heartlandia, I’m convinced that post-apocalyptic heartlandia will be overrun with roving gangs on riding lawnmowers fighting to mow lawns in need of tending.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Negative Data and Embedded Bluetooth/Fingerprick Blood Sacrifices.

Frisbeeface.

Newsletter 0095 is in the wild. The day awaits.

London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics During the Great Plague (1665), via The Public Domain Review.

FDA Enables Generic Insulins with Lower Prices, via Insulin Nation.

Self-Isolation Might Stop Coronavirus, but It Will Speed the Spread of Extremism, via Foreign Policy.

For 12k, Great Ambient Starts With Minimalist Principles, via Bandcamp Daily.

When the world goes mad, the only addition to a writing sanctum that makes sense is a NES/SNES Mini port of sanity.

Update: this iteration of the working schedule seems to, gasp, work. Having The Book as the last thing I work on before the day’s run - and therefore at the center of my brain on my loop - is a very good shift in thought-process. Afternoon work-chunks much more tolerable.

EarBliss, 28mar2020… THREE, by The Necks. (The world may be falling apart but at least we still have new music from The Necks.)

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Continued Efforts at Pre/Postprandial Workflow Symmetry Continue (Or Something Like That).

“I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being. Go a little bit out of your depth and when you don’t feel your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”

• David Bowie

This morning, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep27mar2020.