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After much back and forth and many 404s, I’ve finally landed on how I’m moving forward with this space in the post-Muskville era.

First, this section, formerly blog, is now “notebook” – which makes it, to me at least, feel even more informal than it used to be. Everything will go through this page: Mastodon updates, etc, simply because I like having a central brainsilo for my day. This replaces efforts with Micro.blog, love it as I do: it was simpler to bend Squarespace to my will than attempt to retrofit this space for Micro.

More to come, but I’m quite happy with how this is working out.

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Finished Pelecanos's THE TURNAROUND last night: so very, very good. For some reason, in spite of my passion for crime fiction and THE WIRE, and having had Pelecanos on my radar for years and years, this was only the second of his books I've read (the other being the second Spero Lucas novel, THE DOUBLE); it will not be the last – nor will it take me as long to turn the pages.

Loved this, from the backmatter:

"Conflict drives good fiction, and crime fiction presents the highest form of conflict: life-and-death. Also, the form best allows me to explore the social issues that get me jacked up. I might take a different path now and again, but I'm not goingto walk out of the arena."

As a result, perhaps – of both the emotional pull and tug of THE TURNAROUND and of Pelecanos's remarks above, I'm redoubling my efforts to break through the brick wall of the MainFictionThing, which is most definitely in the crime fiction mold – though via my own "chamber writing" (Principle 07) interpretation of said mold.

the morning's attendance card, a sketchy me in a Kelley Jones-infused Batman costume accompanied by a sketchy dog with similar Kelley Jones Bat-ears because Kelley Jones is my favorite Bat-artist and I've got the black and white status in a place of

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The waitlist email from Masto.host arrived this morning and I’m now set with my own Mastodon instance, @tww@social.parentheticalrecluse.com. Super smooth process to set up…

Now to figure out how these spaces interact. Probably same as usual, but I’m in the mood to try something new, as I have been. Anyhow, it’ll come to me – after many fits and spurts.