Links, 30aug2021
The Joy of Walking in Games, via WIRED.
Mickey Mouse stars in kabuki poses on new line of limited-edition, Tokyo-only goods, via SoraNews24.
Unearthed Batman Art Shines a Light on Comic Legend Jerry Robinson's Early Career, via CBR.
Intimate Garments Handmade from Ceramics by Masami Yamamoto, via Spoon & Tamago.
Fantastic new video by Joan Pope for Meridiane's latest single, “Deerstalking.” (Her Week in Review newsletter is something I look forward to every week.)
Filed under OHMYFUCKYES: ‘The Rocketeer’ Making A Comeback On Disney+ With David Oyelowo Producing & Circling To Star; Ed Ricourt Penning, via Deadline.
Podwork update: First edit pass on TSR0007 is done and I’m pleased. Next: add music to make everything sound awesome and then ruin it with more of my voice (intro/outro recording) before typing up the post and publishing. On track for a Friday release. TSR0008 interview tomorrow.
Awake, Sort of
Always trickier returning to the Main Thing after a day away on the newsletter (though I did have fun assembling it, the NL, from the fragments of the month: will continue to do so); have to get more disciplined about and detailed in my "Note to Tomorrowself" document: no idea where to start – or where the beginning was – this morning. Handwriting metric a possibility. But ugh, metrics.
Started using Trello as a digital replacement for the physical cards and scraps and sticky notes that have become unwieldy. So far so good: thinking I'll write an Informality/Process(ing) piece on my current worktools; might be a good way for me to better understand the shifting of my methods towards the digital since I've started using the M1 iPad for everything (example: I'm not sure that SPOKENSOFTLY would have existed sans switch), the lone exception being my calendar: I prefer a physical entity, a cheap 2021-22 desk planner. (And my handwritten journal remains the key essential, nearly a decade and a half on.)
Podwork this afternoon (and all week, really): aiming for Friday release for the next episode, and the one after that for middle of September, though it might be earlier. The dogchildren require sustenance; on with the day.
P.S.: COUNT ME IN, a documentary on drummers, is fantastic. It’s currently playing on Netflix.
Another Sunday in the books. Unsurprisingly, I remain terrible at small talk, especially when I’m possessed of none of the shared memories involved in said diminuitive talk. Now I have to go make hot dogs.
Newsletter Sunday / Macro Inbound
Words failing because I've written a lot of words about words so I'll just say goodmorning and move on and issue the general thing:
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THE WOLF MAN (1941) is still brilliant. And tragic as hell. Claude Rains's face when he realizes what he's done...
Sunday Sunday...
From the Archives: An Interview with Wallace Stroby
From 28 April 2021: novelist Wallace Stroby and I discuss his latest novel, the brilliant HEAVEN’S A LIE, the process of processing, and so much more. You can listen here - and subscribe to new episodes via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or your preferred podcast app.
On his namesake’s birthday, Kirby gets his Marvel/Kirby collar.