Good morning.

On the bright side of an otherwise abysmal writing day, I learned that the morning’s efforts at schedule modification were a really bad idea. Think I tend to lean more towards the Henry James school of mania than the Lamott school of acceptance. And I accept that.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Routine Maintenance in the Creative Wasteland

Status.

“If I can only concentrate myself: this is the great lesson of life. I have hours of unspeakable reaction against my smallness of production; my wretched habits of work – or of un-work; my levity, my vagueness of mind, my perpetual failure to focus my attention, to absorb myself, to look things in the face, to invent, to produce, in a word. I shall be 40 years old in April next: it’s a horrible fact! I believe however that I have learned how to work and that it is in moments of forced idleness, almost alone, that these melancholy reflections seize me. When I am really at work, I’m happy. I feel strong, I see many opportunities ahead. It is the only thing that makes life endurable. I must make some great efforts during the next few years, however, if I wish not to have been on the whole a failure. I shall have been a failure unless I do something great!…”

– Henry James, 11 November 1882, from A TREASURY OF THE WORLD’S GREAT DIARIES.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… On RSS, Discipline, and 40+hrs of ASSASSIN’S CREED: ODYSSEY.

The Haunting Dark Ambient of the Cryo Chamber Label Spans Galaxies, via Bandcamp.

Richard Deakin’s Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855), via The Public Domain Review.

COVID-19 and Violent Conflict: Responding to Predictable Unpredictability, via Just Security.

Boxes Stacked on the Side of a Cliff, Form this Home in Hiroshima, via Spoon & Tamago.

Finding that my path to a sanity is joined by first turning off news alerts. And reading George Eliot (THE MILL ON THE FLOSS).

EarBliss, 24mar2020: AFTER DARK, by Forest Management.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… UZUMAKI.

EarBliss 23mar2020-2… MUSIC FOR DETUNED PIANOS, by Max de Wardener and Kit Downes.

EarBliss, 23mar2020: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Soundtrack, by Ennio Morricone.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… ONCE UPON A TIME in Inspirational Refueling.

Izzy’s good with the stay at home order.

Newsletter 0094 is in the wild; the week is done. Here we go again.

EarBliss, 22mar2020… SIRENS (deluxe), by Nicolas Jaar.

Good morning.

Collections of officially licensed Mario and Donkey Kong porcelain figures, via Supper Mario Broth.

Update: Marley and Exercise Ball continue their begrudging detente.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse…The Ballad of Quasi-Agoraphobic Thought Amelioration.

COVID-19 Surveillance Must Not Be Used as an Excuse to Entrench Surveillance, via Just Security.

COVID-19 Diabetes Supply Chain Updates, via Beyond Type 1.