Pichetshote and Tefengki take all that I love in crime fiction and meld it with some our history's darkest shames (that remain all too relevant) to craft one of my favorite crime comics of the last several years. Volume Two drops in May - can't wait. My complete reading list, from 2013 to the present, lives here.
Sweet, sweet refrigeration: little did I know how much I could love the sight of condensation on a clear plastic shelf: what a beautiful thing to behold... returned to MONEY HEIST last night, welcome welcome. Continuing efforts to try new things with this space: vowed to myself that I'd let it become what it was going to become and I suppose it's becoming what it wants to become for now – whatever that is… until it isn’t.
Fantastic conversation last night with Justin Duke, creator of Buttondown, for next week’s SOCIALIZED RECLUSE episode.
... though refrigeration returns, allegedly, between 0930 and 1330 today: in the event that they tell me – as they did with either the washer or the dryer or the washer and the dryer – that it won't fit through the door, I will break out the chainsaw and make it fit: such is my determination to bring this latest episode in our season of broken appliances (in the last six weeks: furnace, hot water heater (in the same day), vacuum, and fridge with a d) to a moderately satisfying conclusion.
Also: I look forward to a freezer that doesn't require yogic contortions and stretches for me to be able to reach the keto ice cream in the standup freezer without having to ask my wife who is much taller than I to reach in and get it; I almost fell in last night attempting to grab hold of my beloved eight-carb chocolate peanut butter. And that salted caramel. So good.
New TSR conversation tonight: same one that spent a month in my spam folder because I was too used to things working to look there for three and a half weeks. Noteworthy, here, that my pervasive worries of heading into said interview lacking in capacity to carry on a conversation about the subject matter was, unsurprisingly, unfounded: 90 minutes this morning and I'm good to go. Looking very forward.
Digging the hell out of Universal Control - not sure it will become as invaluable for my day to day as it seems for some, but I'm willing to give it an honest go. Two things I've noticed so far: bigtime battery drain on the M1 iPad Pro (which has been a thing since at least 15.2); and I would like to be able to enable a hot key to jump from monitor to iPad as I tend to leap over there when I mean only to open another document from the Obsdian sidebar.
Expecting a lot of ring-throughs today: "silence unknown callers" is turned off for the delivery crew to schedule a fridge with a d delivery time for tomorrow. There will be refrigerated goods in the fridge again but not today only tomorrow maybe. Room temperature = blech.
In the meantime: the new work / access info.
RIP William Hurt. One of my favorites: DARK CITY, MR BROOKS, GOLIATH, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN…
Brain in newsletter mode. Releasing: Module0004/and if you listen you might hear – as well as an unintended "epic epic of epic epicness" from my past employ – for free to subscribers: Module0004 is available for $1.99 to non-subscribers; epic epic of epic epicness remains NL-only because it will probably make me more unemployable than I already am. Arriving shortly; back to Macro-land.
Bit of a rush: normal block for writing this was overtaken by trip to (INSERT LARGE HOME APPLIANCE STORE HERE) to buy a new fridge and a minifreezer to keep the frozen stuff frozen while we wait on the new fridge. Related: I loathe that "refrigerator" lacks a D and "fridge" requires one lest it be frige which looks like some type of half-assembled IKEA furniture without it; fuck american english.
Rewriting words that were written but are able to be rewritten with the benefit of an essential distance while installing said mini-freezer and more weekend fun. Fuck appliances too.
But at least I like words.
Started CLEO FROM FIVE TO SEVEN yesterday – my first Varda film, another cinematic crime in the wasteland of my personal microculture that I'm making efforts to rectify; I was hooked from the first scene. Will hopefully finish before fridge with a d delivery on Tuesday.
Newsletter and new Module, IF YOU LISTEN YOU MIGHT HEAR tomorrow morning. Free for newsletter subs, $1.99 for everyone else.
