The (mainstream) social plug is pulled: Twitter and Instagram sabbaticals initiated, leaving only this space, my main site - for weekly essays, and the newsletter as outlets to the world. Yay for a quieter internet.

EarBliss🎵, 28feb2020: COMPANION RISES, by Six Organs of Admittance.

The poster art of Josef Vyletal, via {feuilleton}.

Early.

While Nir Eyal’s INDISTRACTIBLE has some useful information, the dust jacket is so distracting that I had to remove it so the book wouldn’t scream at me every time I looked up from my desk.

Cults and Conservatives Spread Coronavirus in South Korea, via Foreign Policy.

EarBliss, 27feb2020: DUST, by Noisetheorem.

Butler’s DAWN is one of my favorite books. Looking forward to this. Victoria Mahoney, Ava DuVernay Developing Sci-Fi Series at Amazon, via Variety.

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the famous ‘Konami Code,’ has died, via The Washington Post.

Very well, Micro.blog, you’ve won: cross-posting is off and I’m taking a sabbatical from my Twitterself in the name of election year sanity, making this my primary thoughtspace / stream. Next, to figure out this tagmoji thing.

EarBliss, 26feb2020 / WILD WILD EAST, by Sunny Jain.

This week, at Parenthetical Recluse: on running, depression, and the onslaught of GhostChihuahua… To Run is to Outrun Myself.

My rough drafts are cesspools of ellipses.

Reading, 25feb2020…

In the midst of primary season, I find an antique ballot box with a pterodactyl bursting forth to be the only office decor that feels right.

EarBliss, 25feb2020-2 / AUX PIEDS DE LA NUIT, by Nyx Nótt.

EarBliss, 25feb2020 / THE LOST VOICES OF HAGIA SOPHIA, by Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas.

Weekend antique mall find: RED BARRY, ACE DETECTIVE, a 1935 Big Little Book featuring a DICK TRACY competitor, by Will Gould - no relation to Chester Gould.

Bird patrol.

Sunday afternoon.

EarBliss, 23feb2020 / AGOST, by Edu Comelles.

Newsletter 0090 is in the wild: the week is done.

Saturday afternoon.

I never thought that my ideal workspace would include an inaccurate though nevertheless cool-looking temperature gauge flanked by Dick Tracy and Flattop coffee mugs but here I am.

Started watching A MOST WANTED MAN last night: great film – and a reminder of how much I still miss Phillip Seymour Hoffman.