The day’s excitement: an effort to make my phone as boring as possible.
EarBliss, 12feb2020 / SOLO, by Vijay Iyer.
Memory cartridge shelf.
Retooled my site a bit in the wake of my switch from daily to weekly posting: only the latest post on the home page (instead of a scroll of seven) and a nifty new Archive page that my previous ramblings can call home.
A fascinating look at how open-world sandboxes like GTAV have become canvases for art and for protest, via The Washington Post.
As the forever campaign drags on, McKay Coppins’s latest in The Atlantic, “The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Re-elect the President", is an essential - and terrifying - read.
Current rotation, 11feb2020…
”My own works, far from smiling on me, irritate me every single time I go over them again.”
— Michel de Montaigne, II:17, “On presumption.”
The meeting, to order.
Because when your new desk is too big to fit through your old office’s door and you build a new office around said desk, KaijuDesk, in the back room paint shop, the only solution, a year on, is to add more desks.
EarBliss, 10feb2020-PM / SEPARATION SONGS, by Matt Sargent.
”The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if it took years was made up out of a day’s work. Nothing more. Nothing less… In the concept of a day’s work is rhythm and pace and wholeness.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason.
EarBliss, 10feb2020 / THE HUMAN HEART, by April Larson.
Spent part of the afternoon visiting with Chloe, my 150-pound Newfy friend. The dog-children are not pleased.
Finished Murakami’s KILLING COMMENDATORE. First impression / one sentence review: it’s not as interesting as he thinks it is.
EarBliss, 09feb2020 / YOU WANT IT DARKER, by Leonard Cohen… one of those mornings; Mr Cohen cures all.
Another newsletter released into the wild; the week is done.
The week’s Informality: done. Next, the newsletter. Then: run in 6.5-mile circle… the day continues.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse: considering the intersection of speechwriting and my desire to give my writing a semblance of utility… 0002 / Of (f)Utility and the Balance of Imbalanced Counterbalances Sought
EarBliss, 08feb2020 / WE’RE NEW AGAIN: A REIMAGINING BY MAKAYA MCCRAVEN, by Gil Scott-Heron and Makaya McCraven.
I miss PERSON OF INTEREST.
Weather report, afternoon edition (with dog).
Snow day.
EarBliss, 07feb2020 / MASSIVE OSCILLATIONS — EP, by Wacław Zimpel: rhythmic drone jazz, The Necks meet BLADE RUNNER.
