circling

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Feeling unmoored and thinking these last few days of a line from Alan Watts's THE WISDOM OF SECURITY, something to the effect of that when you realize you're stuck in a circle the only choice is to stop circling, and, while I like his sentiment I can't help but wonder, especially now, what's the jumping-off point? Is it a total jump and then a hard look at everything in it? Every jump I've tried lands me back into the circle, the hamster wheel. Flummoxed. Whatever it is, something's not right and I'm feeling in a rut. Is my circle a dangling car on a stalled ferris wheel or a drain?

newsletter sunday / THIS IS A SIGN

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Whenever I see a blank billboard that tells me to RENT THIS SPACE I want to do just that and place a billboard that says THIS IS A SIGN. This, then, is the equivalent of my dream billboard, an otherwise empty space with an odd message saying only THIS IS A SIGN.

In other words, it's Newsletter Sunday and I am, like yesterday, wordly challenged.

FANTASTIC FOUR: FULL CIRCLE (Ross, 2022)

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(read: fri/20220924): a spectacular work of Kirby-infused bombast that, along with the original Lee / Kirby run, made me finally see the FF's decades of appeal: a deliriously fun yet pathos-filled romp harkening back to that immortal run and forward via a seminal talent’s bold reinvention of themselves as writer and artist.

Related – and not at all dismissive of Ross's writing here – but all I want now is a Morrison/Ross (especially with the style used here) - or Morrison/Quitely FF run: I know that Morrison said they were done with superheroes, but this, more than any other current series – no offense to current/upcoming team – just screams for Morrison to be unleashed.

fortnightly subcutaneous awakening ritual

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49ºF, cloudy: As is typical every other early Saturday morning, a screeching and incorrect newly-subcutaneously-installed CGM woke me at 0100 to tell me I was blood-sugar crashing in my sleep but reality proved otherwise. Starting to get used to said awakening but acclimation doesn't make it any less exhausting.

Newsletter work in progress, hence less-than-verbose relayed here but something, daily, is the process, the ritual, the routine, so here I am now entertain us.

now with comment system(!)

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After much back and forth, my search for a solution to Squarespace’s abysmal comment system (I refuse to use Disqus) has ended: installed HyvorTalk and managed to get it configured (HUGE thanks to the creator of the system for the solution!) so that the comment field only shows up on individual pages and not the top of each page of the list. Anyhow, there’s a comment system here now, so contribute your two cents or whatever whenever you feel like it, no log-in or anything required.