sun/20220731

in

I am awash in a post-hyperglycemic crash but dinner was totally worth it; internal overnight blood-machinations doing their thing. Going to try an experiment tonight with the basal insulin - though I'm not sure that it will matter. Probably time I gave up trying and went for the pump – though I'm still not used to having push notifications from my body and reticent to have a mini-pager attached to my person at all times. On the other hand, shifting to a DEUS EX-infused augmentation isn’t exactly unappealing to the gamer in me – "I never asked for this."

Gave up on Prime's so-fucking-boring/such-a-waste-of-talent THE 355 and likewise gave up on finding an interesting brainless movie and watched more BLOWN AWAY season three instead.

Macro0084 inbound.

all my modulae are belong to us

in

As I’m in the process of rethinking how not only my newsletter but the forthcoming PRESS (A) series interacts with this space, I’ve decided to open up all of my modulae / stories / experiments / whatever to everyone, with the hope that:

While I'm hurling this module into the world for free, I'd nonetheless be grateful if you'd consider supporting my work via my Ko-Fi tip jar and/or by signing up for my MacroParentheticals newsletter, which gives you, among other things, early access to all work and exclusive access to PRESS A TO START, my semiannual cacophony of realities real and imagined. If a monetary or subscriptive remuneration isn’t in the cards, I do hope that you a.) enjoy these offerings and b.) consider saying so in some public forum of your choice.

These little experiments and deviations (I do like Montaigne’s “grotesques”) have been a labor of love, in some form or another; they’re all I have to offer of myself to you, even if I am talking to myself here in this ether of ours.

All future releases will be released to newsletter subscribers first, then eventually show up here.

Enjoy.

sat/20220730

in

The final set of final shifts and edits are locked into place, I think: relief that I've found something of middling acumen with Affinity Publisher over the month of this process unfolding. Makes these sort of last-minute realizations and understandings of what, exactly, I'm writing, more possible / amenable to reality.

Fingers crossed that, once I get this set, having the template will make it all easier. That'd be the dream, anyhow.

These semiannual, handmade releases are how I want to express myself moving forward. The agency inherent is beyond meaningful: the newsletter is how I communicate, PRESS (A) is how I express myself – without it, without building that platform for myself on the shoulders of those who inspired me to get there (Steve, Justin, MJ) I never would have been able to write what I've written in this first one and found the freedom to press forward into whatever iteration of myself lies ahead.

The most useful addition to my desk in ages; Macro0084 tomorrow.

fri/20220729

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Yesterday I said, "back when I ran a publishing company" and it hit me that I'm running one now only this time it's all me.

PRESS(A)01 definitely delayed but only by a week or two (this was part of the design in leaving June-August and December-February free of other releases): in what is most certainly a cliché, I had a dream last night and it gave me the conclusion that the piece needs. Going to work this bit until I get it right – or at least until it feels right enough with what came before it. Final edit / linedit pass and even-numbered page numbers yet to go on the Affinity iteration of it – BTW, I've found that doing two line edit passes – the first with odd numbers, the second when I add even numbers – works well.  Absolute final deadline remains Sunday, 07 August.

I'm not feeling THE BOYS this season. Something's off.